Occupational Therapy In The 1930's

Next I’ll talk about how this field came about and grew in terms of poularity. Occupational therapy originally came avbout during the age of enlightenment in the 1700s. At that time the mentally ill were trated very poorly because they were considerd to be threats to society and as a result many of them were locked up or put insane asylums. And so In the late 1793, Phillipe Pinel and later on William Tuke began what was then called "moral treatment and occupation", as an approach to treating people with mental illness which became based on purposeful daily activities. They advocated for the using of arts and physical exercise, and work as a way to "heal" emotional stress, thereby improving one's ability to perform activities of daily living they alos focused on "consideration and kindness” as a way to treat the ill. 1840-1860 were the 'prime years' for the use of moral treatment and occupation in American hospitals.
In 1917, the National Society for the Promotion of Occupational Therapy (NSPOT) was founded and it succeeded through the 1920's and 1930's. During this time that occupational therapy became more closely aligned with organized medicine, which is what created a 'scientific approach' to this field. In the 1940s to the 1960s there was a surge in ots as a result of the world war and it was around this period that Occupational therapists began treating physical disabilities. And as medicine became more specialized , so did occupational