Occupational Therapy In Everyday Life
Occupational Therapy is a certain therapy that helps get people back to their everyday lives. A lot of people could benefit from this practice. This occupation is good for individuals that love to take care of others. Very creative people would love this job. Occupational therapy involves working with people that have different disabilities, ages, and developmental stages.
Occupational Therapy began in the 1700’s during the age of enlightenment. In 1793 Phillipe Pinel a French physician. Had the idea of Moral Treatment and Occupation. This means treating the patient’s emotions. Pinel got creative a decided to incorporate music, literature, exercise this was to heal emotional stress, to help improve mental health. In the 1900 Susan Tracy …show more content…
There is a various amount of settings to work in this field. Hospitals were about 27 percent of employment, offices were about 21 percent, elementary and secondary school were 12 percent; while nursing care faculties and home health care were 12 percent. Typically, they work 40 hours a week sometimes nights and weekends. There also independent operators they set their own schedule and work in a various amount of spaces. More than 30 percent of occupational therapist work part time. (“ExploreHealthCareers.org.”)
There are other jobs or types of OT’s that specialize in a certain area of occupational therapy. Adult rehabilitation this form of therapy is mainly focusing on the adult. Then there’s pediatric therapy that focuses on little children. Working just with the elderly make sure they can improve their life so they can become more independent. One third of people employed in this profession work with children. Working with children with disabilities so they can be able to function at home, school, and other …show more content…
Some of these needs can be. Improving their physical, sensory and motor skills. an occupational therapist may check to see if they can or cannot do something physically. This could be strength coordination, balance, and other physical skills. What they may or may not be able to do mentally. Like memory, organization. What everyday tools that the patient uses. Like clothes and cooking utensils and how you operate throughout the day. from waking up how does a patient get up things that can be improved to the patient physical ability. To how they shower cook put on their clothing just simple daily activates. This will help if the patient had a knee replacement, lost limbs, not able to function due to age, or an illness. Depending on what’s wrong with the patient occupational therapist can help the patient overcome the disability, how to work with what they got. For example, how to use a can opener with one hand or how to put on a shirt with just one limb. Another way a patient can overcome their disability is by changing the type of environment that they are in. like changing the way they live, or Getting a wheel chair ramp, there’s many other ways to improve the patient’s life as
Occupational Therapy began in the 1700’s during the age of enlightenment. In 1793 Phillipe Pinel a French physician. Had the idea of Moral Treatment and Occupation. This means treating the patient’s emotions. Pinel got creative a decided to incorporate music, literature, exercise this was to heal emotional stress, to help improve mental health. In the 1900 Susan Tracy …show more content…
There is a various amount of settings to work in this field. Hospitals were about 27 percent of employment, offices were about 21 percent, elementary and secondary school were 12 percent; while nursing care faculties and home health care were 12 percent. Typically, they work 40 hours a week sometimes nights and weekends. There also independent operators they set their own schedule and work in a various amount of spaces. More than 30 percent of occupational therapist work part time. (“ExploreHealthCareers.org.”)
There are other jobs or types of OT’s that specialize in a certain area of occupational therapy. Adult rehabilitation this form of therapy is mainly focusing on the adult. Then there’s pediatric therapy that focuses on little children. Working just with the elderly make sure they can improve their life so they can become more independent. One third of people employed in this profession work with children. Working with children with disabilities so they can be able to function at home, school, and other …show more content…
Some of these needs can be. Improving their physical, sensory and motor skills. an occupational therapist may check to see if they can or cannot do something physically. This could be strength coordination, balance, and other physical skills. What they may or may not be able to do mentally. Like memory, organization. What everyday tools that the patient uses. Like clothes and cooking utensils and how you operate throughout the day. from waking up how does a patient get up things that can be improved to the patient physical ability. To how they shower cook put on their clothing just simple daily activates. This will help if the patient had a knee replacement, lost limbs, not able to function due to age, or an illness. Depending on what’s wrong with the patient occupational therapist can help the patient overcome the disability, how to work with what they got. For example, how to use a can opener with one hand or how to put on a shirt with just one limb. Another way a patient can overcome their disability is by changing the type of environment that they are in. like changing the way they live, or Getting a wheel chair ramp, there’s many other ways to improve the patient’s life as