What is Occupational Therapy?

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Occupational therapy helps people across the lifespan to do the things they want and need to do through the therapeutic use of daily activities. Occupational therapy practitioners enable people of all ages to live life to its fullest by helping them promote health, and preventor live better with injury, illness, or disability.

Common occupational therapy interventions include helping children with disabilities to participate fully in school and social situations, helping people recovering from injury to regain skills, and providing supports for older adults experiencing physical and cognitive changes.

Occupational therapy services typically include:

An individualized evaluation, during which the client/family and occupational therapist determine the person’s goals,

Customized intervention to improve the person’s ability to perform daily activities and reach the goals, and

An outcomes evaluation to ensure that the goals are being met and/or make changes to the intervention plan.

What do occupational therapists do?

Here are some examples of work that occupational therapists do:

Working with children:

Helping children achieve their developmental milestones such as fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination.

Educating and involving parents, carers and others to facilitate the normal development and learning of children.

Rehabilitation and aged care:

Helping clients regain or enhance their daily lives after specific events such as hip replacement or stroke.

Assessing and modifying clients’ home and community environments to improve their safety and independence.

Prescribing and educating clients and carers in the use of adaptive equipment to assist function.

Acute care:

Specialist interventions in various health conditions including surgery, burns, HIV and acute mental health.

Assessing client’s cognition, function and psycho social needs.

Monitoring clients function and progress, prescribing adaptive equipment to ensure safety upon discharge from hospitals.

Injury management:

Using specialised assessments to determine the functional requirements of various jobs, and client’s capacity to return to work.

Designing and coordinating graded return to work programs.

Educating client’s in safe work practices.

Modifying the work environment to suit the needs of individuals so as to prevent or minimise injuries.

Mental health:

Designing individual and group programs and activities to enhance client’s independence in everyday activities.

Developing coping strategies for clients in overcoming their mental health issues.

Improving clients confidence and self-esteem in social situations.

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