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Occupational Therapy
Published in Lori R. Kogan, Phyllis Erdman, Career Paths in Human-Animal Interaction for Social and Behavioral Scientists, 2021
I would encourage anyone interested in this field to pursue volunteer and/or job shadow experiences in healthcare, education, and/or community-based organizations. Interviewing an occupational therapist is an invaluable way to learn more about the nature and realities of the field. An excellent resource for learning about the field is the website for the American Occupational Therapy Association (www.aota.org). Another useful resource is the World Federation of Occupational Therapists webpage, found at www.wfot.org. Lastly, the American Journal of Occupational Therapy (AJOT) contains peer-reviewed journal articles on highly varied topic areas.
Occupational Therapy Student Research of the Needs and Characteristics of Dementia Caregivers
Published in Margaret A. Perkinson, Kathryn L. Braun, Teaching Students Geriatric Research, 2021
Sheila M. Ziff, Amy R. Schaffner
Respondents in the family caregiving study identified their needs as they related to basic activities of daily living. For example, one respondent commented on how much time she feels like she is wasting while dressing her husband in the morning. She said, “There just must be an easier way.” Another respondent said that bathing her husband was physically painful for her due to arthritis in her knees and back. She “wishes (she) knew another way to do it.” Comments made by the respondents and a review of the literature reveal an area where the skills of an occupational therapist could be especially valuable and effective.
Parents and the motor performance team
Published in Michael Horvat, Ronald V. Croce, Caterina Pesce, Ashley Fallaize, Developmental and Adapted Physical Education, 2019
Michael Horvat, Ronald V. Croce, Caterina Pesce, Ashley Fallaize
The occupational therapist (OT) is another professional who may be available to the school on a part-time basis. An occupational therapist formulates and administers activity programs designed to restore or develop skills of daily living. As part of the restoration of functional ability, the OT will focus therapeutic interventions on fine motor muscle activity that can aid children in managing implements or eating utensils.
Experiences of Occupational Value When Doing Creative Activities in a Mental Health Context
Published in Occupational Therapy in Mental Health, 2022
Bodil Winther Hansen, Christel Leufstadius, Helle Andrea Pedersen, Lene Lauge Berring, Lena-Karin Erlandsson
Experiences of occupational value (OV), according to the Value and Meaning in Occupations (ValMO) model (Erlandsson & Persson, 2020; Persson et al., 2001), are generated in everyday doing and the occupational values form meaning in life. Meaning in everyday life is in turn a prerequisite for subjective health (Erlandsson et al., 2011). To recognize and explore occupational value thus seems important in relation to occupational therapy that uses occupations as interventions. OV is presented in the ValMO-model (Persson et al., 2001) as a concept to describe the experiences of engaging in occupations. Occupational therapists benefit from understanding why and which occupations will motivate and enhance engagement and participation in life to facilitate health, well-being, and recovery (Billock, 2013). This study explores the OV experienced by people with mental illnesses in psychiatric settings when engaged in creative activities as an intervention (CaI).
Growing physical rehabilitation needs in resource-poor world regions: secondary, cross-regional analysis with data from the global burden of disease 2017
Published in Disability and Rehabilitation, 2022
Tiago S. Jesus, Juan Carlos Arango-Lasprilla, Suresh Kumar Kamalakannan, Michel D. Landry
YLDs from selected health conditions do not refer to a direct, impairments-based measure but a proxy indicator of physical rehabilitation need. Nonetheless, YLDs refers to a comprehensive measure of non-fatal health loss from the recognized GBD study. Also, the measure integrates likely relevant determinants of physical rehabilitation need, such as the prevalence of conditions, the time lived with sequalae from these, and the severity of those sequelae. As another limitation, the set of conditions whose YLDs are deemed to be responsive to physical rehabilitation are not fixed standards, and may change over time with the advancement of rehabilitation therapies and science, such as the rehabilitation needs arising from the COVID-19 pandemic (e.g., regarding respiratory therapy; the rehabilitation for the post-intensive care syndrome) [46–48]. Also, the data do not address rehabilitation needs other than those arising from physical impairments, such as the rehabilitation of mental health conditions, even though part of the resources can address either needs. For example, occupational therapists can work to address either physical or mental health rehabilitation needs.
Estimating domestic assistance requirements in medico-legal practice: Australian occupational therapy perspective
Published in Disability and Rehabilitation, 2022
Susan Arnold, Lynette Mackenzie, Carole James, Michael Millington
Occupational therapists evaluate the person’s occupational performance in everyday activities and tasks. The focus is to enable a person engage in occupations they want, need or are expected to do [25]. The assessment method used by respondents in this study comprised formal interview format where data was gathered regarding the claimant’s pre-injury function and involvement in housework, the claimant’s perception of strengths and limitations in housework task performance combined with clinical observation of the claimant performing a range of tasks and activities, and an analysis of the environment factors influencing outcomes of performance. The method of assessment did not appear to differ regardless if the occupational therapist was assessing a plaintiff or defendant claimant. Consistently the respondents indicated that as occupational therapists they were skilled in considering the person, environment and the claimant’s activities both at the time of assessment, when the injury occurred and what is likely to occur in the future.