Enothe Session 6 - presentation 1:

Amy Hereijgers & Merel van der Sar

18 October 2013

A New Beginning with Occupational Therapy

A search for identity

Welcome Content:

• Background

• Outcome

• Image & idenity

• OT

• Discussion

Background

• Project ‘Participation is what you can learn’ @ Horizon & Cardea

• Youth: juvenile deliquents, youth with behavioral problems, youth who are not able to live at home.

• Executed by third year students Occupational Therapy • Interviews

• Outcome: book of portraits

• About how they see the future

Result

• Portrait book • It shows us a clear view

• Summary of the interviews

• Can you recognize them?

?

“I love make-up!”

“I really want to

have a pink

Subaru, I don’t

need anything

more”

“I’d love

to explore

the world”

“I’d like to

have my

own family”

“Antartica,

nothing around you but water.”

Which portrait would you associate with juvenile delinquents?

“I love make-up!”

“I really want to

have a pink

Subaru, I don’t

need anything

more”

“I’d love

to explore

the world”

“I’d like to

have my

own family”

“Antartica,

nothing around you but water.”

What is the score?

Creamergirl

Pretty boy

Perspectives: image

What was the image?

• Occupational therapy students >>> Youth

• Youth >>> Occupational therapy students

Perspectives: Identity

What was the identity?

• Occupational therapists • Our own identity

• Youth

Occupational Therapy

Image & identity • Be aware of your own perspective and of the client's perspective

See through limitations • What if the starting point is now and not the past

Discussion:

Is it wrong to have prejudices in therapy?

We thank you!

Any questions?