Therapeutic professional self-awareness: an educational mobile application to develop emotional intelligence

• Main Author: Perkins, Natalie A.
• Other Authors: Duddy, Karen
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Occupational therapy
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/2144/32719

Within occupational therapy and the healthcare community there are calls to promote professionalism through self-awareness and emotional intelligence training (Andonian, 2017), as well as improve therapeutic rapport and performance during clinical fieldwork (Brown, Williams, & Etherington, 2016). Based on literature reviews, an effective way to incorporate training is through mobile applications (Kron, 2016). However, there is limited evidence within the occupational therapy literature to help occupational therapy programs develop self-awareness curriculum. This doctoral project (1) identifies a mobile phone application for occupational therapy students (2) investigates evidence and best practice in developing self-awareness training (3) develops an outline for development of a mobile phone application (4) identifies implementation strategies and (5) identifies evaluation plan. The project’s evaluation results will contribute to three areas within occupational therapy: addressing specific needs of self awareness training (Allen, Montgomery, Tubman, Frazier, & Escovar, 2003), providing more evidenced-based education (AOTA, 2017; Bakker, Kazantzis, Rickwood, & Rickard, 2016), and building self-awareness training into occupational therapy curriculum (Carvalho, et al., 2011; Andonian, 2017). === 2019-10-23T00:00:00Z