Interesting topics that are related with Occupational Therapy

My career is very versatile because we have subjects from many areas, like biology, psychology, bioethics, sociology, ecology, body expression, psychiatry, etc. This give us a very global vision of the way that we have to intervene in the future.

An interesting topic that we are laerning of is "body expression". In this class we experience different techniques wich principal objetive is to "let the body speak for it ones".

One of this techniques is an activity, like a rol playing, were the participants have to walk as if they were real models, so they need to have a very self-confident attitude. The purpose is that the participants achieve to overcome their fears of been exposed, that is why it´s use in patients that have bad self-steem or are very shy.

This kind of therapys are a different way of treating ill people and it could be very interesting for them, increasing their motivation.

At last!! a really relaxed weekend

I have to say I didn`t do anything too exciting this weekend. I`m a very home-loving person. The week before we had two tests so I was constantly studing for them, they weren`t difficult but I had to read LOT`S of documents. So on friday, I finally could do NOTHING, or I could do things without thinking that later I had to study. I went out with my boyfriend and it was really nice. On sunday I went to visit my grandfather, it was his 96th birthday!! It`s a LONG time, don`t you thing? I was really happy to witness this day.
The rest of the time I slept, watched tv, read and ate, so that`s the reason of the title.
I HOPE that this kind of weekends repeats along the year!

About my carrer

How did you become interested in your area of study? What motivates you to continue learning about your career?
When I was in school, in 3erd grade, I started searching for the carrer that interested me most. It was very important to found the wright one because it would be my future profesion.
First I was interested in animals, so I decided to be a vet, then I started to like things related with the field,so I considerated to study agronomy, then I wanted to study art. Finally, I started to hear about Ocupational Therapy and it was a carrer that had all the things that I wanted to do. First, it`s a carrer of the medical area so it has many elements from biology. It needs a very creative mind because the ocupacional therapysts do rehabilitation through many kinds of activities. And it`s a very humanist profesion because you treat with real people all the time and you can help them live in a better way without suffering.

There are many things that motivates me to continue learning about this carrer. One of them is that we have been to institutions where we worked with patients and we have seen and experienced the impact that our work did in the pacients improvement. This experience was very motivating and this year we are starting with a new proyect based in old persons. Our main purpose is to achieve old people´s real participation in society. It`s very interesting an there are so many things that I still have to learn.