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- Teacher´s ClassRoom Management Program, One Portuguese Experience in the CommunityPublication . Pedrosa, V. VarelaThe Degree of Occupational Therapy (OT) of the Higher School of Health Sciences (ESElei) of the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria (IPLeiria) in Portugal, promotes the Gulbenkian Academies of Knowledge, sponsered by Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. We aim to improve social and emotional skills in young children from 3 to 8 years old, building resilient children in ESSLei adjacent community, in Leiria and Porto de Mós field. We will invest and qualifying the teacher´s, those that everiday stengthens is classroom. The team will be formed by up to 14 elements, ESSlei teachers, elements from Porto de Mós & Leiria Autarchy, Private Social Solidarity Institutions from coverage área. This team will disseminate for free t he methodology, one theoreticalpractical model, divided in 84 hours (42 in classrom more 42 pratical in classrooms). In total they are 7 Workshops offered for free to public institutions. We aim to share results from implementationoctober 2018-March 2020. At the same time we are pleased to share a good & resilient practice. By now we already formed 33 educatores and reach directly near 1200 childrens, devolping resilience, problem solving, criativity, better communication. By the time of the conference, we will have more results, from a pratical methodology that is working nearly with Teachers, enhancing resilicence, strategies for enhancing soft skills, community resilience. The promotion of soft skills, in theory and with our pratical experience is the future of primary care & health promotion.
- The Acting of Occupational Therapy in Community, Early ChildhoodPublication . Pedrosa, V. VarelaThe child and the family with special needs and doubts need to be monitored, supervised, given greater attention, to develop skills and abilities, and greater autonomy. The importance of Occupational Therapy (OT) inserted in a team in the context of early intervention in childhood and school is already recognized and studied, but still few, when it is reflected on the intervention in the community. The purpose of the compilation is to reflect on the follow-up practices of OT in the Primary Health Care, in early childhood. The reading of the data reports, in the middle of the hours of an OT in the Primary Health Care, 17 hours. The results are numerical / descriptive, have a non-experimental, retrospective, longitudinal nature, between March 2005 and March 2016. The service does not have a validated information system, the data were taken from excel sheets. A total of 253 different children / young people, with at least 1 h or more of care, between 0 months and 18 years, 74.3% between 1 month and 6 years of age and 25.7% among the 7 and 12 years old included, 58.1% of the male gender and 41.9% of the female gender. Requests came from the community, with the family also signaling. The children were mostly referred at early ages, due to Communication and Relationship Disturbance, and difficulties in Social Interaction with no known etiology. It indispensable the OT follow up in the Primary Health Care. In the community, is a great necessity to families and children.
- Intervention of the Occupational Therapist in the Changes of the Occupational Performance of Newborn Pre-Term in Intensive Neonatal Therapy UnitPublication . Fagundes, A.; Santos, A.; Melo, J.; Costa, R.; Pedrosa, V VarelaA newborn born less than 37 weeks gestational is considered a preterm newborn. In this sense, the occupational therapist who exhibits a holistic view about it, intends to enhance their occupational performance and improve their quality of life. To describe the performance of Occupational Therapy (OT) with the preterm newborn in Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICUs), responding to the scarcity of information on the subject at the national level, and the need for occupational therapists in this context.The study uses as a method of data collection a semi-structured interview conducted to an occupational therapist that participates in a NICU in mainland Portugal and as a method of data analysis WebQDA software. It has a qualitative approach, it is a descriptive and exploratory study, taking into account the general objective, and it is assumed as a case study, by the technical procedures used. When identifying and analyzing the information related to the research question, we can affirm that during the interview the occupational therapist emphasized the intervention of OT in Sensory Modulation and Guidance to Caregivers of the Preterm Newborn.In order to optimize the whole intervention, and as a main conclusion, the importance of the caregivers participation in the OT intervention process is emphasized, which is done under the guidance of the therapist, making the approach of this professional indirect.