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14th Triennial Congress of the International Federation of Societies for Surgery of the Hand (IFSSH), 11th Triennial Congress of the International Federation of Societies for Hand Therapy (IFSHT)

17.06. - 21.06.2019, Berlin

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MAA: Mini-Activity Approach Boost Your Resilience

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  • presenting/speaker Barbara Aegler - Praxis für Handrehabilitation und Ergotherapie GmbH, Zürich, Switzerland
  • Fay Zischeck - Praxis für Handrehabilitation und Ergotherapie GmbH, Zürich, Switzerland

International Federation of Societies for Surgery of the Hand. International Federation of Societies for Hand Therapy. 14th Triennial Congress of the International Federation of Societies for Surgery of the Hand (IFSSH), 11th Triennial Congress of the International Federation of Societies for Hand Therapy (IFSHT), 11th Triennial Congress of the International Federation of Societies for Hand Therapy (IFSHT). Berlin, 17.-21.06.2019. Düsseldorf: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House; 2020. DocIFSHT19-1113

doi: 10.3205/19ifssh1500, urn:nbn:de:0183-19ifssh15000

Published: February 6, 2020

© 2020 Aegler et al.
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. See license information at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

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Clinical issue/s: Clients often experience critical life situations and need to adjust. In clinical practice we developed an approach to empower clients' in strengthening their resilience. The new approach focuses on mini-activities that can be easily integrated into daily routines.

Clinical reasoning: Within recent years resilience has received a growing interest regarding its potential influence on health, well-being and quality of life. Resilience is defined as the ability of a person to recover from, adjust to, change to or resist stressful circumstances. New research has shown that resilience is not only inherent but is also influenced by environmental factors and can be built up through life. Resilience is therefore more than being robust and resist, it also includes opportunities that stress can open up.

Innovative, analytical or new approach: Doing these specific mini-activities will empower clients to strengthen their self-efficacy as relevant factor of resilience. Strengthening the self-efficacy helps to gain energy for the recovery process after an injury.

Contribution to advancing HT practice: The focus of the presentation will be to shortly introduce and critically discuss the theoretical underpinning of this new approach. Furthermore the application and experiences in praxis will be introduced.Participants will increase their awareness of the importance of resilience in OT practice. Furthermore they will know the theoretical background of a newly developed approach to empower client's resilience.