Artful Minds Occupational Therapy

Conduct a needs assessment to show how art supports individuals with mental health conditions, addressing prevalence of mental illness and its impact on education, treatment, meaningful occupations, and emotional regulation.

Explore how art-based therapy for individuals with mental illness may enhance coping skills and emotional regulation compared with standard therapy, as suggested by three systematic reviews and occupational therapy findings.

Develop occupational therapy program using creative art interventions to enhance emotional regulation and coping skills for unhoused individuals, those with substance use disorders, or mental illness in a structured environment.

Explore how art-based therapy broadens the occupational therapy toolkit by enabling meaningful and purposeful group and individual interventions that foster emotional expression, coping skills, personal growth, and collaborative therapeutic relationships.

Integrates the model of human occupation with mojo and cbt to support client engagement, emotional regulation, and recovery through art-based interventions like vision boards, murals, mindfulness, and cognitive reframing.

Capstone project highlights art-based, client-centered occupational therapy interventions that empower underserved populations facing mental health and substance use challenges, reduce stigma, and support recovery, daily life, and community reintegration.

Explore how Samaritan Day Top Village in Richmond Hill delivers substance use and mental health care, including medically assisted treatment, a multidisciplinary team, and evidence-based interventions like CBT.

The research expands my understanding of the occupational therapy role with individuals experiencing substance use disorder and being unhoused, guiding inclusive adaptations for my capstone program at Samaritan Daytop Village.

Develop an evidence-based art program grounded in CBT to enhance coping skills and emotional regulation, documented in a structured occupational therapy course with protocols, images, and step-by-step group facilitation.

Highlight a client-created community facility art show that educates, advocates, and empowers through coping skills and emotional regulation, with sensory-integrated murals for recovery rooms and presentation featuring pre/post assessment evidence.

Develop an occupational therapy-based program that uses creative art tools to teach coping skills and emotional regulation, via simple, replicable weekly protocols tied to daily living and occupational performance.

Evaluate art-based occupational therapy outcomes using pre and post brief COPE and Difficulties in Emotion Regulation scale to measure coping and emotional regulation improvements and guide group inclusion criteria.

Direct an occupational therapy group by establishing inclusion and exclusion criteria, using case manager referrals and assessments like the brief COPE and Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale to identify clients.

Artful Minds Occupational Therapy presents a swot analysis of a residential group, detailing strengths like strong staff support and positive client feedback, and weaknesses and threats such as attendance turnover.

Reveal pre- and post-assessment improvements in emotional regulation and adaptive coping, with reduced avoidant strategies. Demonstrate that client feedback supports expanding occupational therapy services.

Explore art-based interventions for emotional regulation in occupational therapy through capstone questions, addressing coping styles, licensing scope, and research gaps in art therapy for mental health.

Identify key references drawn from the presentation to support concepts in artful minds occupational therapy. The slides compile sources cited throughout the lecture for further study.