OT Blog

Although I had heard a lot about the children’s movie Inside Out , I had never seen it, and never considered that it would be a movie that I could write a neuro note about. I was interested in how this would connect with neuro, so I set out to watch it. The movie is about an 11-year-old girl named Riley that is going through a life-changing move from the mid-west to San Francisco. The movie depicts the ups and downs of Riley’s emotions, and how this event is being processed through each of her emotions inside her brain. The movie personifies the emotions Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust, and Sadness and tells of their everyday adventures in an 11-year-old, and even occasionally reveals the thoughts/emotions of her parents. I think this movie is great for children to watch so that they understand their emotions, and as the movie shows, that each emotion has a place in their life and they all have important jobs (even sadness) in order to make up a person’s personality. I...

1.  I feel that I performed maybe average/good for a first SIM lab experience. I think that the fact that I was being recorded/watched made me more nervous than I thought it would when I walked in. Because of that I think that I stuck directly to the assessment instead of allowing time for conversation with the client, which is probably one of my bigger regrets from the experience. We have learned that getting to know the client is extremely important in intervention, and the client mentioned having cats and a daughter, and I wish I had her elaborate a little more on that to get to know her and her interests better. I also had sort of prepared for how the skit was going to go in my head, I should have known better. Because when Francis asked me what OT was, it threw of my skit and I did not answer that well (which stuck out to me in my video), that is obviously extremely important. Additionally, in the debrief  in class I realized that I should have checked her bracelet rathe...