Career paper on Occupational Therapy

Casey Flynn         Flynn 1

Miss DiNatale

Biology A Block - H

Monday December 20, 2004

Occupational Therapy

        Occupational therapy is the art and knowledge of helping people do the day-to-day activities that are authorized to them despite stultification, disability, or handicap (Willard & Spackards Occupational Therapy: ninth Edition, 5). The main goal of an occupational therapist is to maximize the patients indie functioning. The areas of functioning which may need improvement are obdurate by the patient and the therapist together. Occupational therapist function purposeful activities as their treatment methods and goals. Occupational therapy treatments are not limited to areas of work or job training. Ones occupation in life is more than just their job.

Occupational therapists organize treatments into three diametric categories or performance areas: Activities of Daily Living, Work and Productive Activities, and short-change and Leisure Activities. Activities of quotidian living include such things as dressing, cooking, bathing and hygiene (brushing/washing hair, brushing teeth, etc.) shopping, paying bills, and so on. Work and productive activities are naturally important for people. ply and leisure are important in both a childs and an adults life. Adults need leisure or play for a effectual well balanced lifestyle while play is the vehicle in which a child develops both mentally and physically.

The cosmos Health Organization is responsible for the definition of impairment, disability, and handicap (www.aota.org). disadvantage is defined as A loss or mental defectiveness of physical or psychological structures or functions. Only when impairment is severe enough to impair an individuals ability to perform daily living, work, and

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leisure activity does it become a disability. An example of a somebody with a disability is someone who cant put on his or her pants due to a shift keyd hip (impairment) (Robin Flynn OTR/L). This hip fracture prevents the individual from bending...

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