{"id":492,"date":"2020-04-23T15:39:07","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T06:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/nhs-news\/?p=492"},"modified":"2020-04-23T15:41:53","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T06:11:53","slug":"video-ot-student-shares-placement-insight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/nhs-news\/2020\/04\/23\/video-ot-student-shares-placement-insight\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: OT student shares placement insight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flinders Occupational Therapy student Hannah Crockett-Naini reflects on the importance of &#8216;activity scheduling&#8217; to clients and how it can help lift their mood during COVID isolation.<\/p>\n<p>Hannah, who is in her first year in the Master of Occupational Therapy, recently undertook a placement with private community-based occupational therapy service, National OT, where she worked with her supervisor on a mental health plan for clients involving activity scheduling.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Essentially it&#8217;s about identifying activities that increase your mood and activities that decrease your mood, then making sure you&#8217;re incorporating them (positive activities) into your daily routines and schedules. We often forget to include activities in our daily routine that increase our mood,&#8221; she says.<\/p>\n<p>Hannah says the strategy would be aimed at people with psycho-social disabilities and carried out via telehealth consultations.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Master of Occupational Therapy student Hannah Crockett-Naini shares placement experience.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mC4z5g5W1v0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was also lucky enough in these times to be linked in to telehealth appointments which was really interesting to see. 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