What is Occupational Therapy?

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Occupational therapy is the only occupation that allows people to do what they want and what you need by using everyday activities (carriers) throughout the lifecycle. Occupational Therapy practitioners can help people of all ages enjoy life fully by helping them improve health and helping to prevent or avoid better harm, disease or disorder.

Common occupational therapy interventions include assisting children with disabilities to fully participate in school and social situations, assisting people in recovering from injury and restoring skills, physical and cognitive Includes assistance of the elderly experiencing a change of the state. Occupational therapy services usually include the following.

Personalized evaluation. Meanwhile, clients / families and occupational therapists will decide on personal goals.

Customized intervention to carry out daily activities and improve people's ability to achieve goals

Evaluation of results to ensure achievement of target and change of intervention plan

Occupational therapy practitioners have holistic views focusing on adaptation to the environment and / or tasks to adapt to the individual, and that individual is a member of the treatment team. This is a practice based on evidence deeply rooted in science.

Before recognizing that occupational therapy is an effective means to promote productive living, it is important to understand occupational therapy. The main role of occupational therapists is to teach "independent living skills" ("Life work skills" 1). These skills are particularly important for children with disabilities and children with high demand. Occupational therapists will provide and facilitate intervention based on the specific circumstances of the client. By evaluating the child, the therapist can better understand and judge whether the client has skills suitable for his age. In the initial intervention, these skills include dressing and play. "Occupational therapy can provide interventions for children to acquire appropriate social skills, game skills, and learning skills." Therapists are encouraged by children to achieve and maintain normal daily work I will help ... "(1)

The main outcome of occupational therapy is to promote customer involvement in the practice framework to support life in its own context. Therefore, the American occupational "context" (cultural, physical, social, personal, spiritual, temporal, virtual) was included in the occupational therapy field in 2002). The model above generally contributes to dilution of disability and enhances the context's role in explaining human functions and disorders, but uses slightly different terminology. In this chapter background factors are considered to be peripheral factors or thought to be independent of the client's primary diagnosis or disorder state (World Health Organization, 2001) is essential for a wide range of people's lives.

Work is the core of occupational therapy. In occupational therapy, occupation is a daily activity that people participate as individuals, families or communities and spend their time to bring meaning and purpose to life (World Federation of Occupational Therapy, 2012). A new paradigm of occupational therapy requires conversion from injury focus to professionalism focus (Machingura & Lloyd, 2017). Therefore paying attention to occupation such as sleep is consistent with modern paradigm.

Return "S" to occupation: Sleep is a profession - taught by Associate Professor Towanda Machingura of Bond University