Models

I am incredibly excited at the prospect of research in to the use of the Wii to assist stroke survivors in re-learning movement. What a great example of our need as therapists to move with the times and exploit modern technology to engage clients in meaningful, therapeutic activities. I can just visualise Mrs Jones extending her shoulder back, flexing her hip and knee and going in for that killer ‘virtual’ strike!!!!!

Just a quick one - if anyone needs a "nice"* diagram of the stress-vulnerability model see attached. Its an adapted version from the very nice Mental Health Handbook by Trevor Powell. So citation to read something like "The Stress-vulnerability model adapted from Powell, 1992,p103, metaot.com 2005"

Update: If anyone wants a nice image of something for your case study see this page which is the online parts of "Abnormal Psychology by Nolen-Hoeksema"

* NB: its not perfect. far from it - I couldn't get my graphics package to do a arrow round the outside!

UPDATE (11/12/06): Due to cease and desist request from CAOT themselves I have had to sadly pull these images. Read here for more info.
OK, someone from Canada may well ask me to remove this but hey.. Find attached a rather snazzy adaption of the Canadian Model of Occupational Performance - It's in PNG format so you should be able to resize it without a huge loss in quality. Hope its useful.. Please, please, please just reference it back to me - something like "Schematic representation of CMOP, Adapted from Townsend (1997), MetaOT.com, 2005)" Then just reference the url (http://metaot.com/CMOP-Diagram) to this page as neccessary. That should do the trick. UPDATE: I have also reworked the OPPM: Occupational Performance Process Model (It's beyond me why they call this a model as well - more of a OT process diagram - handy even if your not using CMOP) into a nice diagram for reuse. Two versions this time - one with text - one without so you can modify around a particular client group/case. Reference as "Occupational Performance Model, Adapted from Fearing, Law & Clark (1997), p11, metaot.com" or something similar! Watch this space for a "Will's Bluffer's Guide to Model's" coming to a web-browser near you soon