As a future occupational therapist, it is important to understand the locus of control of my future clients. The understanding of each client's locus of control will help me plan my treatment sessions in a way that my client's will be able to take on. As a provider, we want the best for our clients. We want to encourage an internal locus of control in our clients. As I was reading the article, Are your patients out of control?, I noticed an aspect of occupational therapy. It stated that one of the ways to help influence an internal locus of control is to let the client know that they are the decision maker. As an occupational therapy student, we have learned that our treatments revolve around what the client would like to work on and the things they need to participate in meaningful occupations.
As an individual who falls on the external locus of control side of the continuum, I did not agree with some of the things that I read for myself. One of the things that I read was that people with external locus of control tend to be more of a "please fix me" kind of person. This may be true for the majority of people with an external locus of control but not for myself. Based off of my answers on the worksheet, most of the things that I agreed with summed up to the fact that as humans, there are some things out of my control. I am curious to see if I can tell the difference between my clients with an internal locus of control versus an external locus of control on my fieldwork this fall. I think it was neat to learn about locus of control and will try my best to apply it as a student clinician.
References:
Meira, E. (2016, June 22). Are your patients out of control? Retrieved August 02, 2020, from https://thesciencept.com/are-your-patients-out-of-control/
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