life. “Occupational therapy is the health profession that focuses on maximizing a person’s ability to participate in life independently” (“April is”) . Some Occupational therapist work in school environments specializing in helping students improve daily tasks and allowing for an easier time learning in a school setting. I Occupational Therapy is a specialized type of therapy that focuses on the treatment and development of daily life skilled to improve one’s way of life. Many occupational therapist
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CAREER PAPER Getting America Back to Work Becoming an Occupational Therapist Becoming an Occupational Therapist involves a lot of time and dedication. Occupational therapy has a simple definition – helping challenged patients perform everyday tasks. Technically Occupational Therapists are defined as healthcare professionals who work under the supervision of a Physiatrist who help people with physical‚ developmental‚ mental‚ or emotional disabilities to overcome‚ correct
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Successful occupational therapists not only present personal skills and traits that help them to be successful throughout their career‚ but they also know how to use those skills and traits and combine them into their patients’ lives‚ helping them to achieve and succeed as well. As an occupational therapist‚ you will only succeed after your clients’ do. Mental health is the primary cause of disability in the world. It can influence an individual’s ability to occupy in daily life activates but with
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person engages in for personal satisfaction and pleasure (Hinojosa & Blount‚ 2014). Occupational therapy practitioners use purposeful activities as a method to restore function and compensation for functional impairment (Hinojosa & Blount‚ 2014). Before incorporating the meaningful occupation into the intervention plan‚ an analysis of the activity needs to be conducted. All the information received from the occupational profile must be taken into account when choosing a purposeful activity. The client
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Many people might question the relationship between occupational therapy and physical therapy. Some think the professions are the same or that the terms are the same; there are a few different therapies for people who have been faced with a stroke‚ a disability‚ or any injury that has caused physical restrictions. The methods and techniques used in these therapies can overlap with each other‚ but both occupational therapy and physical therapy covers all aspects of the patient’s health including their
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Occupational therapy (OT) is a client-centred profession with the primary objective of promoting health and wellbeing through occupation in people with neurological‚ musculoskeletal‚ or mental health issues (Hammond‚ 2004; Michaels & Orentlicher‚ 2006; Occupational Therapy Australia [OTA]‚ 2016). OTs frequently work as part of an integrated healthcare team in a range of public and private settings‚ including hospitals‚ medical rehabilitation units‚ psychiatric facilities‚ and schools (OTA‚ 2016)
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Occupational therapist use interventions to have the client work on occupations and participate on getting better (2014 pg. S43). One way practitioners implement intervention is by using occupation and activities. Occupations include daily life activities that are client-directed toward his or her goals (pg. S29). Being able to dress himself or herself independently would be an occupation intervention. Activities are parts of an occupation that develops the client’s performance skills and patterns
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definition for code of ethics is a guide of principles to help professional to be honest and with integrity. The code of ethics is an outline with the mission and values of the organization with how they are suppose to approach to the situation. Some of the codes of ethics are for occupational therapy‚ nursing‚ physical therapy‚ athletic training‚ medicine‚ and many more. The code of ethics are approached in this paper are for occupational therapy and nursing. Both of the careers have the same code of
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the beginning the same. Willard began her studies and graduated from an Ivy League school earning a bachelor’s degree with physical therapy (Willard‚ 1975). Years down the road‚ Willard qualified as an occupational therapist through the U.S Civil service in 1922‚ joined the AOTA‚ and then became the director of occupational therapy and chief aide on physical therapy at the U.S Veteran Hospital in Maywood‚ Illinois (Willard‚ 1975). In her road of success‚ Willard was placed in a position of Curative
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lives‚" said his wife‚ Renee Taylor‚ also an occupational therapy professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Dr. Kielhofner‚ 61‚ of Lake Geneva‚ Wis.‚ the former head of the occupational therapy department at UIC‚ died Thursday‚ Sept. 2‚ at Mercy Hospital in Chicago‚ after a short battle with cancer. In the 1970s‚ before completing a doctorate in public health at UCLA’s neuropsychiatric institute‚ Dr. Kielhofner began work on a model to help understand the psycho-social challenges faced
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