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The Effects of Sensory-Enhanced Yoga® on Reducing Trauma Symptoms in Individuals with Substance Use Disorder
No full textSubstance use disorder has a major functional impact on an individual’s well-being. Addiction becomes a major role, and everyday routines focus on seeking and using drugs. Substance use disorder has been seen to have a relationship with trauma. Trauma and substance use disorder overlap because commonly trauma survivors seek out psychoactive substances as a way to self-medicate due to traumatic distress and those who heavily use substances are more easily victimized. Both of these conditions have a functional impact on an individual’s life skills. The goal of occupational therapy practitioners is to help clients identify and implement healthy habits, rituals, and routines to support a wellness lifestyle by addressing barriers and building on existing abilities. Yoga has been accepted by the occupational therapy profession as an evidence-based treatment modality that can be included in the therapeutic process as a preparatory or purposeful activity. Sensory strategies have been part of occupational therapy for decades. By incorporating sensory strategies in interventions occupational therapy practitioners have been able to help individuals with trauma manage self-regulation difficulties, which can interfere with participation in daily activities and meaningful roles and routines. The focus of this research is to identify if utilizing Sensory Enhanced Yoga can be an effective coping strategy for reducing trauma symptoms and improving self-perceived competency in roles and routine of those in recovery from substance use disorder
Journal Club Utilization as a Means of Implementing Evidence-Based Research to Pediatric Occupational Therapy Practice
No full textEvidence-based practice (EBP) is a key component of occupational therapy (OT) treatment, including pediatric settings (AOTA, 2019). The overall utilization of EBP to guide treatment is low across all practice areas (Wressle & Samuelsson, 2014). The purpose of this study is to determine whether the implementation of a journal club, in combination with the Traffic Light Grading System, will improve the utilization of EBP throughout various pediatric OT settings. A quasi-experimental instructional group design, with pre-post-post test measures, would be used over a period of 12 weeks with OT practitioners (OTP) to determine if EBP utilization increases. It is anticipated that the implementation of these measures will assist in overcoming the barriers to implementing EBP to treatment. Objectives: At the conclusion of this activity, participants will be able to; - Describe what EBP is and why it is important to the OT profession. - Describe why a journal club could potentially assist in the utilization and implementation of EBP. - Describe why the "Evidence Alert Traffic Light Grading System" could be an effective tool to organize and implement research to OT practice. - Identify how EBP influences quality treatment within pediatric OT practice
Identifying and Implementing Strategies Related to Occupational Injustices Impacting Child Rearing in Low-Income Families
No full textParents living in poverty face chronic stress, which leads to higher levels of encountered barriers related to child rearing in comparison to those with a higher socioeconomic status. Previous research has revealed that parents living in poverty experience occupational injustices related to time, cost, and safety. The purpose of the proposed study is to investigate whether a 10-week, activity-based support group with a parent co-leader will assist parents living in poverty to identify and implement strategies to overcome injustices related to child rearing. Research in the field of occupational injustices related to parents in poverty is presently emerging and supports the need for further research in this area
Occupational Performance in Children with Cerebral Palsy: A Systematic Review of Group and Individual Interventions
No full textPresented in this poster is a comprehensive review of the comparison of group and individual interventions for occupational performance outcomes in children with hemiplegic cerebral palsy (CP). Results from this systematic review can help guide occupational therapy practice in the selection of group or individual interventions for children with hemiplegic CP to help improve occupational performance
Effective Transition to CommUNITY: A Systematic Review of Interventions to Support Community Integration for Individuals Who Have Experienced a Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury
No full textFor individuals who have experienced a traumatic spinal cord injury, how can occupational therapy practitioners support an effective transition to community integration to achieve greater life satisfaction
How Do Undergraduate Nursing Students Feel About Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing?
No full textThis presentation is an integrative review that seeks to explore the perceptions, opinions, and attitudes of undergraduate nursing students on psychiatric-mental health nursing
Self-care Management of Heart Failure (A multidisciplinary Team Approach)
No full textThis project brings out the different ways heart failure is managed through a multidisciplinary care team approach. The different authors used evidence-based studies, randomized control trials, focused group studies, qualitative studies, descriptive literature review and synthesis, descriptive, correlative review and cohort studies to describe the different ways heart failure patients manage their disease to prevent rehospitalization, which is very common within the first thirty days after discharge from the hospital. All articles are current, and focused on heart failure and are derived from CINAHL database, with focus on nursing topics and allied health science. The literature review is generated from primary articles which are the articles used in this study. The PICOT format helps to bring out the population group involved in the study, the summary of possible interventions in heart failure management, comparison intervention, outcome, and the time frame the study was conducted. The PICOT approach helps to answer the clinical question “How effective is self-care management of heart failure?” All articles used in this study are summarized on critical appraisal tables 1 and 2, with vivid and brief description of the literature review of heart failure self-care management
Telemedicine Does Not Miss a Beat: The Use of Telehealth to Manage HF
No full textThe aim is to determine telehealth monitoring efficacy in managing H
Remembering Voices
No full textRemembering Voices is a recital designed with two parts, each centering around a different theme. The first section of the program honors traditions in the classical music realm with art songs and arias that are close to my heart. The preparation for this portion of the recital has been a lovely trip down memory lane where I have had ample opportunity to remember my voice from years prior. I have also had the opportunity to acknowledge its growth while at Salem State University as a result of working with esteemed vocal instructors. The second section remembers voices that were silenced throughout history, especially in the nineteenth and twentieth century as a result of antisemitism. It attempts to pay homage to the struggle endured by European Jews during this time as they were mistreated, silenced, faced discrimination and hate, and often had to flee their homes or convert to Christianity, as Mahler did. While I am not Jewish, I am very interested in Jewish culture and am committed to honoring the challenges faced by both Jewish composers and non-musicians. Through this commitment, interest, and admiration, I resolved to dedicate a portion of this recital to the works of Jewish composers and Jewish music out of respect for their suffering and their incredible contributions to the musical world. It is both for my remembering of my own voice and for the conscious remembering of silenced voices that this recital is entitled Remembering Voices. Remembering the voices of these marginalized people, and the voices of all other composers represented in the repertoire for this recital, is exactly what I intend to do
Unspoiled Gender
No full textThis dance piece is a product of my capstone research project, which analyzed the female gender roles within old Hollywood (1940s-60s) and current Hollywood. This piece looks at how women are pushed into these expected roles with expected behavior and how they try to push their individuality through, but ultimately hit too many societal barriers