Participation in Context; Occupational Therapy

Running head: PARTICIPATION IN CONTEXT; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY
PARTICIPATION IN CONTEXT; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY
Name of the student:
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Introduction:
Occupational therapy is a process of treatment that helps a person to participate in the
human occupation that they want to do by using daily activities (Taylor 2017). It is the duty of an
occupational therapist to assist people in order to recover injury to regain skills, disability to
perform in social activities and other cognitive challenges. Through a psychotherapy or
individual evaluation the occupational therapist tries to determine the goal of the person (Upton
et al. 2014). They provide effective interventions to help the person in order to achieve the goal.
The focus of the essay is to understand the story of a person suffering from schizophrenia and
discuss various social, cultural, economical and personal factors that influence the participation
of a person in human occupation. The patient in this case has suffered from schizophrenia since
the college time. The main problem is, she heard a voice of a lady that narrated the daily
activities of the patient, for example, if she was going to attend a lecture the voice narrated it like
she is going to a lecture, but when she tried to find the lady she could not find anyone. Such
things made her afraid and with increasing illness she started to ignore communicating with
friends and society. Then she decided to take help of a psychiatrist and gather knowledge to
counter the issue. The paper will provide a brief idea about the relevant social, cultural,
economical and personal factors that has created barriers or enablers for the person in order to
participate in human occupation and the effect of the illness on the health and well-being of the
person.

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Discussion:
Identification of the elements those are relevant to the story regarding socio-cultural
values:
The critical thinking tool regarding the contexts of participation provides relevant factors
that have effect on the person related to participation in human occupation (Thomas and Law
2013). According to the story of schizophrenia, most of the elements of the wheel are relevant to
the case considering the socio-cultural value. Daily living activity is one of the important factors
in case of schizophrenia. The daily activities like going to college, attending lectures,
conversation with the friends and social activities could influence the patient’s condition.
Another important element is the local environment. In order to stay in a society it is important to
adapt the local environment, otherwise it could affect the living condition of a person and create
stress within the person that could trigger the sign of schizophrenia (Wilkinson and Marmot
2003). Economic status of a person is important to consider in the case of schizophrenia, as it is
one of the major factor that create pressure and lead to mental distress ((Warner 2013).
Education is another factor which is very important for managing the case of schizophrenia, as it
provides knowledge about the illness which helps the patient to understand the signs of the
illness and motivate them to counter the issue (Bentall 2013). Support network like social
support, medical support and family support play an important role in addressing or influencing
the issue. The importance of health and social care is the most important part as it provides
effective service in order to treat such illness and without the support of such care service it is
impossible to address the issue related to schizophrenia (Tandon et al. 2013). The additional
element is media in the case of schizophrenia it could help to disseminate the important
information about schizophrenia so that people could understand the issue related to the illness

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and avail effective treatment or support a person that is suffering from the illness. Such factors
play important role in order to create barriers or enablers for the patient. The positive influence
of the element could help the patient to counter the issue in an effective manner, whereas, the
negative influence could increase the risk of psychotic symptoms like delusion and hallucination
or thought disorder (Frith 2014).
Analysis of the occupations of the character:
The consequence of schizophrenia has destructed the patient to an extent, and then the
patient decided to fight with her fear and took move in order to counter the issue. Due to the
circumstances she was feeling helpless then she decided to take help f a psychiatrist in order to
cure the illness. After suffering from lots of difficulties, discrimination, humiliation and
disappointment, she got the help of an experienced psychiatrist, who has helped the patient to
resolve the issues related to schizophrenia (Stefansson et al. 2014). The nursing team has helped
her to increase her ability to heal. The patient has learned how to turn the violent voice to a
positive message. Such turning point in her life has brought positive changes. The nursing
professionals have helped her to connect with UK Hearing Voice Network. Such interventions in
her life have helped her to cope up with the illness. After that the patient started to collect more
articles and books in order to gain knowledge about the illness to create awareness within the
community. She has participated in the TED talk in order to share her experience regarding the
situation she had faced due to schizophrenia. Such step is difficult to take but it has helped the
patient to disseminate the information about the risk factors and consequence if schizophrenia.
She has written TED book on her experience that has helped others to understand the
consequence of schizophrenia. The patient then again started to attend her college and finally she
graduated from British Psychological Society and got the undergraduate award with first class