Assignment: Occupational Therapy Education.
Assignment: Occupational Therapy Education.
to be at a stalemate resulting in power struggles and strained communications. The patient is frequently the victim of the isolation caused by this poor communication. The definition of a
closed system is that the system is isolated from its environment and the final state is determined by the initial con- ditions. Certainly the health system is made up of many closed systems (10). The patients unfortunately become a closed system also because they have no mechanism for being in a dynamic state with their environment and in control of their own status.
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The prejudices harbored by each of the characters in the health system seek to maintain the independent status of each character rather than focusing on the individual human being who is paying for the service to change his or her health status. I have now completed the assessment process of our plan. I see three separate problems that the profession has
to address to meet its responsibilities in organizing and humanizing the health care system: The three problems are:
• A perceived conflict between occupational therapy practice and occupational therapy education, to actually destroy what I perceive as myths
• A focus on health services delivered within the acute care model • The health system’s lack of orientation toward the human being. Now that we have completed the assessment by looking at the characters and identifying the problems, let us take each problem one at a time and develop our treatment plan.
Treatment Plan
Problem I. A Perceived Conflict Between OT Practice: OT Education
GOAL: Resolve the conflict between practice and education. It is important that our profession reduce the social distance between education and practice and move from pluralistic positions into one of integration. We need a link between education and practice with the purpose of further developing occupational therapy as a scientific discipline. This focus will remove the need for maintaining the conflict and move us toward integration and further away from frag- mentation—thus, we will destroy the myths. In investigating methods to resolve the conflict, I went to C. P. Snow’s lecture on “Two Cultures.” Snow perceives
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