Not Your Typical Doctors

The Glue of H2F: Why human performance needs Occupational Therapy with Dr. Justin Bolten, DOT & Dr. Catrinna Amorelli, DScOT

November 07, 2022 Doc Sarah/Doc in Training Alyse Season 1 Episode 25
Not Your Typical Doctors
The Glue of H2F: Why human performance needs Occupational Therapy with Dr. Justin Bolten, DOT & Dr. Catrinna Amorelli, DScOT
Show Notes

The Glue of H2F: Why human performance needs Occupational Therapy with Dr. Justin Bolten, DOT & Dr. Catrinna Amorelli, DScOT

Join Doc's Sarah and Alyse for a great guest episode on Occupational Therapy and why it's such a vital part of human performance programming! In this episode we chat about: 

  • OT and it's broad scope in human performance. 
  • Is too small provider: client ratio a problem with HP programming?
  • TURF TALKS and the power they hold!
  • Can 'Stuffers' help spread the word of HPO?
  • How one crucial role for a leader in HPO is being able to force multiply. 
  • What is missing in the current Human Performance team make ups for tactical?

If you haven't considered an OT for your HP team, we hope this episode will make you re-think! Talk to ya later!


Meet Our Guests:
Justine Bolten is an Army Occupational Therapist. She graduated in 2013 from Western Michigan University in Interdisciplinary health care with a minor in holistic health and psychology. She received her doctorate in Occupational Therapy from Creighton University in 2018. Justine is stationed in NY and is currently working in the human performance realm with the Army’s Holistic Health and Fitness Program.

Catrinna Amorelli is from Mancos, Colorado and completed my Bachelor’s of Science degree at Colorado State University. Her Masters in Occupational Therapy from the University of New England in
Portland, ME. Shortly after the completion of her degree, she applied for the US Army Doctor of Science in Occupational Therapy (DScOT) through the Army and was accepted.  Her DSc program was at Fort Sam
Houston, TX and afterwards she went on to her first assignment in Vilseck, Germany. So far in her career she has been Chief of Occupational Therapy, a behavioral health role in a Combat and Operational Stress Control (COSC), and now at Joint-Base Lewis McChord, WA where she is a Mental Readiness Director for the Holistic Health and Fitness (H2F) team. 

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