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Benefits of Strategic Memory Advanced Reasoning Training (SMART) in Occupational Therapy Graduate Students
Get PDFOccupational therapists engage in critical thinking to integrate knowledge into clinical application. Academic curricula offer critical thinking strategies to facilitate flexible thinking and innovation to optimize clinical outcomes. Prior research has demonstrated that a gist-based reasoning program called Strategic Memory Advanced Reasoning Training (SMART) is beneficial in improving critical thinking skills in both healthy and clinical populations. The current study examined the benefits of the SMART program in masters-level occupational therapy (OT) students. Fourteen students between the ages of 22 and 45 (M = 25.71, SD = 6.34) completed the research study. The SMART program teaches strategies of strategic attention, integrated reasoning, and innovation. The group-based program was 10 hr long, over a period of 4 to 6 weeks. The design of the study is a pre-post crossover waitlist randomized trial. Non-parametric and paired t-tests analyses compared the pre-SMART to post-SMART scores. Findings demonstrated improvements in abstract thinking and innovation. Gains were also found on non-trained domains of memory and reduction in stress related scores. Students applied the strategies in real-life contexts, including school, home management, and social life. The SMART strategies could be integrated into OT curricula, including lectures and experiential learning. Future research should continue to explore long-term benefits of SMART program
Globally Inclusive Occupational Therapy Scholarship
Get PDFOccupational therapy is a global profession and OJOT supports global scholarship through its open-access, online format. OJOT is read in over 200 countries and global/international authorship is encouraged. This article describes the global reach of OJOT and suggests how OJOT authors can embrace the opportunity and responsibility of producing scholarship that has the potential for global impact
Interview with Kent Yu
Get PDFKent Yu is a first generation immigrant who came to the US for college. After his father came to the US many years ago to see what it is like, Kent wanted to live in the US with his wife and daughter. China was in the middle of a crisis at the time because of the instability caused by the cultural revolution. Kent was an engineer working in a Chinese factory, but felt as though despite his hard work, there wasn’t opportunity to further his career in China. In 1990, after China reopened its borders, Kent decided to immigrate to America and go to Mississippi State for thermodynamics before transferring to the University of Maryland. Immediately after moving to the US, there were a lot of financial issues for Kent because the money he made in China was of little worth here. When working as one of the top engineers in a Chinese factory his salary was around 50 RMB or about 20 USD per month, since everything in China is very inexpensive, living off of that meager income was doable, but outside of China, this money was simply not enough. The monthly salary at a Chinese factory was only about enough for a day\u27s meal here in the US, let alone pay for his tuition, housing, bills, etc. In Kent’s eyes the number one success is to survive and keep the family well. This can be achieved when one realizes that everyone has their own potential, and everyone should all use that to their advantage. Kent came to Michigan after graduating from Maryland to start living with his family, and for job opportunities. He came to Greenville with his daughter and wife, but later moved to Forest Hills. He believes parents need to give kids guidelines and teach them right from wrong. Parents need to set boundaries and tell them how to behave. When his father came to the US for the first time, he told stories about people being strange around him. No one discriminated against Kent or his dad, but there were some times where there were weird moments with certain individuals. Kent firmly believes that most discrimination now in the US can be avoided if you prove you are hard working and valuable. We sincerely thank Mr. Kent for allowing us to spend some time interviewing his experience of immigrating here.https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/our-stories-aapi/1016/thumbnail.jp
The Ribauds Penaillon and Pignoguet: Playing with Fraud, Death, and Resurrection in a French St. Martin Play
No full textThis paper examines a self-contained episode in the anonymous Mystere de la vie et hystoire de monseigneur sanct Martin (Touraine, late 15th century) which, although a resurrection miracle of the saint, is based on a folkloric trickster-tricked exemplum. It features two ruffians (ribauds) who attempt to scam Bishop Martin, the one pretending to be dead and the other begging alms for his burial. The soul of the pretend dead man is hauled off, however, by a lurking demon and requires Martin\u27s prayers and the ministrations of a pair of angels to be restored the the ribaud\u27s body. What is known about the play and this story motif is sketched, followed by a detailed scene-analysis discussing the use of prop souls, stage-combat between angels and devils, and the episode\u27s darkly comic overtones. Such a deliberate violation of a saint\u27s virtus and caritas is normally severely punished in hagiographic literature. In the popular genre of drama, however, Penaillon and Pignoguet are spared further punishment and are in fact reintegrated back into the play, participating in Martin\u27s funeral
The Fortitude of Friendship: Countess Ermengarde of Brittany and Bishop Marbode of Rennes
No full textAt the International Congress on Medieval Studies in May 1991, I was on a panel entitled ‘Noblewomen in France and England.’ My co-presenter was Linda Mitchell. Little could I know that this session would result in a deep and abiding friendship that would last decades. It seems appropriate, therefore, to contribute an essay to Linda’s festschrift on Friendship.
Countess Ermengarde of Brittany lived a long and rich life. She co-ruled Brittany with both her husband and son; became a nun twice in her life and then subsequently left the convent; she traveled to the Holy Land where she built a church; she negotiated peace between monasteries, but also between her male kin and the church; she built churches and supported ecclesiastical reform in Brittany. The relationship between elite women and male clergy has garnered attention recently. Fiona Griffiths’ recent book, The Nuns’ Priests’ Tale, interrogates the accepted interpretation of latent clerical hostility toward women. Rather, Griffiths (and others), argue that male clergy were supportive of women and genuinely invested in the care of their souls. Countess Ermengarde’s relationship with several prominent male clergy supports this interpretation. This essay will examine the friendships between the countess and Bishop Marbode of Rennes, Robert of Arbrissel, and Bernard of Clairvaux. What emerges is different perspective on the relationship between clergy and aristocratic women; one of respect, mutual interest, and support
Elizabeth Brice and Elizabeth Rede: Two Female Goldsmiths
No full textLinda Mitchell’s research made extensive use of prosopography as a methodology for explicating the lives of aristocratic women, especially those living on the Welsh Marches. This article employs her prosopographical methodology to illuminate the careers of Elizabeth Rede and Elizabeth Brice, two women who were members of London’s Goldsmiths’ Company. The Goldsmiths’ Company was one of the most powerful companies in medieval London, and many mayors, sheriffs, and aldermen came from this company. While we know a great deal about the role of the company in London politics and about the structure of the company itself, we know little about female goldsmiths. What makes the two women of this essay worth analyzing and comparing is that Elizabeth Rede’s husband Bartholomew had been apprentice to Elizabeth Brice’s husband, Hugh. These women undoubtably knew each other, and Brice’s career may well have served as a model for Elizabeth. Since Elizabeth Rede’s and Elizabeth Brice’s husbands had both been aldermen and mayor, positions that required great personal resources, both women had considerable resources at their disposal once widowed and remained actively involved in the Goldsmith’s guild. Upon her widowhood in 1497, Elizabeth Brice began paying membership dues and trained at least one apprentice, showing that she continued her husband’s shop and maybe even practiced gold smithery herself. Elizabeth Rede was widowed in 1505 and paid membership dues in the company every year until her death thirty years later. While there is no evidence she worked as a goldsmith, she was very involved with the Goldsmiths’ as executor of her husband’s will. She used this position to set up an endowment specifically to help the widows of goldsmiths who had fallen on difficult times. Comparing the life and careers of these women shows something of the shadowy world of female artisans and the ways in which elite London women interacted with powerful companies
