Certified Occupational Therapists typically hold Masters or Doctoral degrees in Occupational Therapy from an ACOTE accredited institution. To practice in the United States, occupational therapists mus ...
October 27 is World Occupational Therapy Day and celebrates the many different ways occupational therapists can change the lives of others. In honor of World Occupational Therapy Day, occupational the ...
The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) is a framework to measure health and ability by illustrating how these components impact one’s function. This relates very ...
Occupational Therapists use a number of theoretical frameworks with which to frame their practices. Note that terminology has differed between scholars. Theoretical bases for framing a human and their ...
Services typically include: Teaching new ways of approaching tasksHow to break down activities into achievable components e.g. sequencing a complex task like cooking a complex mealComprehensive home a ...
The role of occupational therapy allows occupational therapists to work in many different settings, work with many different populations and acquire many different specialties. This broad spectrum of ...
An occupational therapist works systematically through a sequence of actions known as the occupational therapy process. There are several versions of this process as described by numerous writers, alt ...
Best practice in occupational therapy seeks to offer effective, client-centred services that enable people to engage in occupations of life. The Canadian Model of Client Centered Enablement (CMCE) emb ...
The philosophy of occupational therapy has changed over the history of the profession. The philosophy articulated by the founders owed much to the ideals of romanticism, pragmatism and humanism which ...
Early therapy The earliest evidence of using occupations as a method of therapy can be found in ancient times. In c. 100 BCE, Greek physician Asclepiades initiated humane treatment of patients with me ...
Occupational therapy, often called OT, is the use of treatments to develop, recover, or maintain the daily living and work skills of people with a physical, mental or developmental condition. Occupati ...
