106 – Semantics and Platitudes in OT Occupied

So many times over my career I've heard cliche's and platitudes used by therapists and often wondered....do they know what that actually means? Recently I've had a number of discussions on this podcast about terms used that are used incorrectly OR used as lip service and I thought it was about time I did an episode and explored some of these.







Terms explored in this episode include:







HolisticWoo WooFunctionServingand more....







Tune in to hear my reflections from my brain and a dictionary.







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Transcription







Brock Cook 0:00A quick message to let you know that occupied plus has launched over on Patreon. If you are looking for some extra value from occupied extra podcast episodes, downloadable resources, access to me supervision, mentorship, and many, many, many, many more things that I will be continually trying to add more and more to than jump over to patreon.com forward slash occupied plus, and check us out tiers starting from $4 us a month, it is bargain basement for extra value that can add to your clinical practice. Now let's check out this episode. I've been meaning to record an episode like this for some time. And I finally got around to putting it together and bringing this to you. There are quite a few things that ot say on the daily that I see very regularly on social media, in ot related groups, etc. that I don't feel like OTS fully understand what they're actually implying when they use certain terms and certain words. So I was actually have a look at the definition of some of the things that we say and see whether or not it actually matches up with what we are intending it to say. Get a My name is Brock Cook and welcome to occupied. In this podcast. We're aiming to put the occupation in occupational therapy, we explore the people, topics, theories and underpinnings that make this profession so incredible. If you're new here, you can find all of our previous episodes and resources that occupied podcast.com. But for now, let's roll the episode. All right, so firstly, I want to lay out there that this is absolutely in no way intended as an attack on anyone or anything like that. This is simply me looking at patents that I see within promotional material things that people put out there with regards to the profession, how we work, what we do with people, etc. That has never fully sat right with me because I just had this sort of gut feeling that some of it didn't make a lot of sense based on my understanding of the definitions of these words. I know often the the the term semantics is often thrown around for Potato Potato. Why does it matter? But semantics matters, semantics is the use of linguistics, the study of language and what words actually mean. So it's kind of important, especially from a profession that is continually complaining that the one word that we use to define our our profession is used or known for a different definition by the general public.