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A Voice in the OT Wilderness

Saturday night’s alright for fightin’
November 9, 2009 8:10 PM by OTCM
Back in August, I blogged about my mother and her attitudes about death. Recently, we had the opportunity – if you can call it that – to examine the subtleties of her perspective, and how it is reflected in her advanced directive. Mom was taken to the Read More...
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Phoenix Rising
October 26, 2009 4:44 PM by OTCM
"What strategies are occupational therapists interested in mental health going to develop to both assert the field as an effective treatment and practice it as such?" This question was posed by an OT student in her comments on my assertion that advocacy Read More...
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Still Impressionable
September 29, 2009 4:50 PM by OTCM
What experiences in your career have awakened you to beliefs you didn't know you had, and/or made you change your mind about any of them? For me, it took providing disability case management (DCM) services to injured workers to find out how elitist I Read More...
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Po-tay-toe, Po-tah-toe...Tuber
September 21, 2009 5:36 PM by OTCM
What strategies do you use to remind yourself to use person-centered language in your professional communication? I still see the word "patient" used a lot in the health care literature, even though the concept of "person-centered service" is becoming Read More...
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The Not My Job Award
February 2, 2009 2:57 PM by OTCM
A popular email attachment depicts a dead armadillo in the middle of the road - with the yellow median stripe re-painted over the carcass. The caption reads "Winner of the 'Not My Job Award' - [State] Department of Transportation." We can chuckle, but Read More...
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Across the Great Divide
January 27, 2009 9:28 AM by OTCM
With so much variety within OT and case management (CM) practices, it's difficult to describe how CM can (and should) be part of any OT practice; and how OTs with-case manager job titles continue to practice OT. But recently, ADVANCE for OTs columnist Read More...
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Hedging Your Bets
January 8, 2009 1:57 PM by OTCM
When life hands you lemons...find something naturally sweet instead My New Year's Resolution has been the same for many years now: not to make any. As you might expect, I've been quite consistently successful in keeping it! This doesn't mean that I don't Read More...
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Who determines "health"? (pun intended)
December 9, 2008 10:36 AM by OTCM
"[Despite twenty years of living with life-threatening illnesses,] I've come to think of myself as the picture of health.... Is this delusional? Perhaps.... [B]ut where there's been disease there has also been triumph." - Kim Lute, My Turn - Newsweek Read More...
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Relating OT to CM when applying for CM jobs
December 4, 2008 12:52 PM by OTCM
How can an OT practitioner "sell [oneself] as a good fit" for a Case Management job opening? - question/comment posted to this blog 11/15/08 The short answer is "know your audience." This means: Find out as much as you can about the CM position: Responsibilities Read More...
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Wage Factors Part 4: The color of money on the other side of the fence
November 24, 2008 2:19 PM by OTCM
The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be. Robert Fulghum Read More...
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Welcome to "A Voice in the OT Wilderness"
September 16, 2008 5:05 PM by OTCM
When trying to come up with a title for my blog, I thought of the canine practice of howling to the sky in order to find out who (or what) might answer. Since entering the specialty practice of case management in 1984, I have felt marginalized as an OT Read More...
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