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This was this week's learning objective.

It did not sound like anything occupational therapy-ish and definitely had me underestimating its impact on my learning. THERE WAS SO MUCH TO LEARN ABOUT THE ICF><

Nonetheless, I'm really liking the learning that we're going through at my school - getting us to think about learning objectives, and then coming back together to share our findings. The generation of new questions or doubts would undoubtedly emerge and this type of learning is much more engaging as compared with the traditional mode of teaching.

The ICF seems to be moving in the direction of becoming practice based, with its recent development of assessment tools, core sets and also documentation tool. What is the WHO's real objective on developing these tools - really?

None can deny that the activities and participation factor/qualifiers is not comprehensive enough to encompass the subjective components to participation, and the person's ability to make decisions about which occupations to engage in. This is the direction that we should be advancing towards - to delivering occupation-based intervention and treatments. And ultimately leading to clients being satisfied with therapy outcomes and resulting in eudaimonic well-being. Really hoping for occupational therapists to have a larger say in the next revision of the ICF. 

Lets go, lets make a difference!

Christensen, 1999, p.553

Relevant quotation from AJOT, 1999 article on "Defining Lives: Occupation as Identity: An Essay on Competence, Coherence, and the Creation of Meaning" by Charles H. Christiansen.

I've been learning a lot about meaningful goals. This paragraph from his essay highlighted the power of moving towards our 'possible selves'; and this triggered my thoughts - because we have individual 'possible selves' that each of us yearn to move towards to. Occupational therapists therefore ought to spend more time with our clients, understanding their 'possible selves' or 'goals' that they would like to achieve - so that we may harness this motivation within the individual whom we are working with.

Timely reminder, indeed.

just realised i did not write any reflection notes for week 4, whoops!

week 4 marked the last week of my Irish professor's presence, and I pretty much presume we would still see him when we're in Dublin. We wrote notes to state how much we'd miss him and I wasn't sure how much of that was necessary initially, until this week. (O well, I kind of miss his sharp and critical comments) I daresay his sharp & critical comments undoubtedly triggered my thinking and forced me to think more critically. on hindsight, this also means I need to be critical of my own thinking, to sharpen my thoughts and hopefully sharpen the words i share during groups.

otherwise, week 4 went pretty fast. attempted to do more research on the usage of the Canadian Model of Occupational Performance - Engagement on Asian population -- and to my dismay, little studies reported the usage of CMOP-E moreover on Asian populations.

this week will be a fast week too, with today being Diwali or Deepavali - a gazetted public holiday for my country. and with two days left of this week - what could be more difficult? lets go, lets go, lets go! :)

the third week went past really quickly, possibly owing to the fact that it was a 4-day week for all of us. 

significant events include digesting the Model of Human Occupation and really attempting to understand the applicability of this model in the local context, and it was interesting to participate in a conversation on the applicability of MOHO in different practice settings.

I also enjoyed looking at 'occupation' from Kielhofner's point of view, and that humans are occupational beings. I enjoyed the week overall - though nasty things happened with the scholarship as well. 

One thing's for sure, God is in control.

So I spent my weekend figuring out client-centered practice and attempted to pull out relevant chunks of information that strengthened the need for occupational therapists to be client-centered from the 3 assigned articles. 

It was undoubtedly a feat, and I thought it was a good one that had allowed me to consolidate two weeks' worth of knowledge. 

I am still getting used to this entire structure of problem-based learning, and I have no doubts that it would improve our soft skills - in areas of team-work, actively listening to our team mates. I also liked that we were in charge of our own learning, though many may argue that the flip-side would mean countless readings to enrich your learning. Two weeks of setting into this new routine.

Week three here we go! I am sure this week would pass by without me noticing it. Positive thinking only!