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OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY

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joolie Robert
OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY

OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY(εργοθεραπεια)

The occupational therapy is a discipline that aims occupations instrumentation for the treatment of health of the

man. The occupational therapist works for biopsychosocial well-being, assisting the individual to achieve an active attitude towards their abilities and to modify their diminished abilities.

Occupational therapy

In other words, occupational therapy seeks that a person with physical or mental limitations can have an

independent life and value their own potential. Occupational therapy can assist in the treatment of brain and spinal cord injuries, Parkinson's disease, cerebral palsy , general weakness, and in post-fracture rehabilitation.

Specifically, among the areas in which the aforementioned occupational therapy operates are also the socially marginalized, geriatrics, intellectual disabilities, mental health, drug dependence or community intervention.

This discipline appeals to various activities to help the subject adapt effectively to their physical and social environment.

It should be noted that occupation should not be understood as work or employment , but as all the tasks in which the patient is engaged. These occupations vary with age: in occupational therapy for children, the relevant occupations will be playing and learning, for example.

In this way, occupational therapy is responsible for the prevention, functional diagnosis, research and treatment of daily occupations in different areas, such as personal care (food, hygiene), recreation (games and activities playful) and productivity (school or work activities).

The occupational therapist is the one in charge of bringing to fruition and developing the techniques, tools and actions that shape this type of therapy. A professional who has his origins in the 18th century. Specifically, in

the year 1793 is when the figure of a therapist of this modality was established for the first time, and that was none other than the French psychiatrist Philippe Pinel, who at that time carried out work that was a true revolution in society.

And it is that said doctor, a specialist in mental illness, opted to break with the rules imposed until that moment. Thus, he abandoned the idea that patients with such pathologies should be chained or that they should be bled and opted to work with them through a more moral treatment, with therapeutic objectives.

Finally, it can be highlighted that the occupational therapist must fulfill three stages in his training: a medical phase (related to basic medical sciences), the study of therapeutic activities for rehabilitation treatments and clinical practice .

This training will be achieved by those through the various university degrees that can currently be found as part of the educational plans of many countries throughout the world.

In this way, after several courses and subjects, the occupational therapist will be perfectly trained to work with his patients based on their pathologies. Thus, taking into account the same, you can implement treatments based, for example, on re-education techniques in psychomotricity.(συμβουλευτικη γονεων)

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