Occupational Occupation Essay

Reflective paper

We have started to do the assignment right after it was assigned. When we first saw the topic - ”Occupation-foundation of OT practice", we were confused about the concepts of occupation and OT practice as we were still not quite familiar with these concepts. At first, we thought that the concepts of occupation and occupational therapy practice did not make any differences. And we only knew the definition set by the WFOT, that occupation is the everyday activities that people do as individuals, in families and with communities to occupy time and bring meaning and purpose to life. Occupations include things that people need to, want to and expected to do.

At the very beginning, we had thought of eight cases to illustrate 'occupation'

We cleared our mind, and discussed with each other again. We found out more information about occupation that there are several ingredients to be included in both the video and presentation. Those ingredients are four dimensions of occupation, occupational justice, occupational performance, etc. The four dimension includes doing, being, belonging and becoming.

Moreover, we recognized what we should and needed to do, we assigned each of us to do some part. Kitty and Daphne drafted out the introduction; Hilda, Annessa, Dominic and Jeff drafted the script of the cases; and Vanessa drafted the conclusion. We drafted out the final version in a whole group. As we did not want the video be so boring, we left the part of recording to Vanessa and Dominic, whose sounds are more interesting, and we used Lego and Barbie to be the characters in our video. At first, we used paper to made the clothes for Barbie. However, we thought it was not quite professional. Therefore, our creative groupmates, Hilda and Annessa, use fabric to make the uniforms of occupational therapists for them. Besides, we all did not know how to use the app iMovie to do editing, we searched on the web for tutorial

For communication skills, we have learnt that we should express our opinions and feelings to all teammates for brainstorming but not only following others' ideas. But what we gained are not only the knowledge and skills, we also found the importance of team spirit and also gained the experience of facing failure. It's because after the consultation, we argued a lot and needed to change lots of the content in both the video and powerpoint. However, we have never think of giving up, and we kept working together to improve the quality of our project. So we are glad that we finally came across it.

During the presentation, we enjoyed it very much as we can show all our efforts to the whole class, also our classmates seemed enjoy our presentation too. We know that the more you pay, the more you gain, and this is the spirit our team cooperation based on. After the presentation, we feel relieved. But we also concern that our show is not interesting enough, but we finally find that the most important thing is our confidence and the content, and we know that we did it.

We think in this reflective paper, we should talk about not only the good things or what we gain, but also the bad things. In the project, there are still something we are not satisfied, for examples the workload for groupmates and the communication of some