105 – OT Needs to be Doing Being and Becoming MORE ft Khalilah Johnson - a podcast by Brock Cook

Crowd favourite Dr Khalilah Johnson is BACK! and this time we are delving deep into the realities of inclusive practice. We started out discussing her research around including within a disability context but soon exploded to inclusion in many other contexts.







There are many parts of OT that need improvement and we explore the lip service that is often payed to topics around inclusion with different populations. This is an important topic, especially in todays overly connected society where information and access to news is faster than ever before. Where social capital is now derived from what one says and not what one does. How does this impact the work that so many therapists have lived and/or dedicated their lives to? Tune in to hear our thoughts on all of this.







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105 OT Needs to be Doing Being and Becoming MORE ft Khalilah Johnson







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We want to look at your your journey Into how you got where you are now and into the causes and the the research that you're you're currently looking into and how far back does that does that. Does that janney start before you started. Iot over. Half are baxter. We delve to start with. I don't know that we want to start all the way back. Ot sixteen years now and we did. We did have a little bit of like hey going to the profession and stuff in the lawsuit that you're on that's right. Well i guess i could start is sort of the clinical experiences that I think really changed the trajectory of my work. After i moved to north carolina to pursue my hd at university of north carolina I was Subcontracting through a company that was providing services to the state in developmental centers or intermediate care facilities for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities and was just really finding it very difficult to do my job Basically being told not only by the facility but really dictated by the state sort of what the range of an occupational therapy evaluation like And the expectation for me not Write a treatment plan or do any additional consultation with staff pertaining to addressing any sort of Occupational needs of the residents there. And so i'm sort of looking at this will want what. What's the point of occupational therapy. Then if it is not for me to draw on it by professional expertise to say here here are some things. That are problematic weather. It's just about being able to participate Or if they're real real safety considerations in these facilities and here's how we can address them or develop a treatment plant. Always you know in collaboration with staff. They wanted no parts bet. And so the more i pushed more. They pushed and Just went to buy adviser. Nancy bagatelle and said i don't i don't care what my dissertation is about but it has the center these sorts of issues So it's like. What are the really the the policy that mediate not only what i was able to do as a therapist. That really how the people were the issue in these facilities are just able to live regular. Is you know Even what's wrong with that kind of stuff because we have similar kinds of issues in australia as well. Do you think that the issue is like outdated policies or policies that have just been made in uninformed way a little bit of both right. you know. There's definitely some historical towards people with disabilities that informed the policies when they were ready some time ago but they earn supposedly revives with you know thinking well ardal supporters in person centeredness and all of these things...

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