The Impact of OT in the Prison System with Kwaku Agyemang - a podcast by Sarah Putt, MA, OTR/L

from 2020-06-29T07:00:06

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Kwaku and Sarah discuss:  

  • Normalization of violence
  • Assumptions of people in prison
  • Historical views on wrong doing and punishment
  • Working with young offenders (18-21 years old)
  • Reflections on how they got there and where they can go in the future 
  • Influence of occupations both positive and negative
  • Social context of occupations
  • The opportunity of choice
  • Impact on environment for people in prison
  • What it looks like to work as an OT in prison
  • The framework of occupational therapy
  • How he started working with in the prisons
  • His biggest realization working in this setting
  • OT & Chill

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