OT Potential Podcast | Occupational Therapy CEUs

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#158 Interprofessional Education with Michael Sy

2026-11-0658:44

In the United States, therapy professionals are mostly educated in silos. So it’s no wonder that when we get into the real world, we often struggle with interprofessional collaboration. The answer is simple, and medicine, nursing, and pharmacy have already embraced it: interprofessional education. But if this is the way forward, why has therapy been slow to adopt it? Will we lose our distinct value if we learn alongside other professions? Does it actually work, and if so, how do we measure th...

#157 Motivational Interviewing with Sabina Kahn

2026-10-3001:00:12

At the heart of rehab therapy is often behavior change. That powerful lever is how therapy is able to deliver such long-term, life-altering results. But let's be honest—it's also hard. I know I, for one, have sat in a therapy office as a patient, pledging to do my home exercise program, and then totally failed to do it. Motivational interviewing is an evidence-based approach that helps us get at the "why" behind what makes behavior change so difficult. It surfaces the real challenges so the t...

#156 Risk Factors for Cognitive Decline with Ganesh Babulal

2026-10-1659:58

As we've covered on the podcast, the world is heading toward a dementia crisis. The number of people living with dementia is projected to nearly triple by 2050, and low- and middle-income countries will be hit hardest. But there is real hope for changing that trajectory: prevention. The 2024 Lancet Commission estimates that nearly half of dementia cases could be prevented or delayed by addressing 14 modifiable risk factors, including hearing loss, hypertension, physical inactivity, and social...

#155 Marketing Your Therapy Practice with Erica Stevens

2026-10-0957:31

More than 2.4 billion people around the globe live with a health condition that would benefit from rehabilitation, and more than 1 billion are living with a mental health condition. But how do they find the right therapist among the roughly 2.8 million OTs and PTs out there, not to mention SLPs and mental health professionals? The answer is pretty obvious: marketing. But in our busy clinical lives, we tend to overlook the importance of this business activity. And we certainly don't spend enou...

#154 OT as Mental Health Providers with Halley Read

2026-10-0258:10

For as long as I've been an OT, I've been hearing about occupational therapy's advocacy to be recognized as behavioral health providers. This is frankly a little confusing, since OT has deep roots in mental health care — and many of us became OTs because of the unique way the profession holistically considers mental health and physical health, and how the two intersect in everyday function. Things honestly become even more confusing when you start to dig into what exactly it means to be recog...

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OT Potential Podcast | Occupational Therapy CEUs