history of occupational therapy Flashcards
what is a paradigm
members of discipline subscribe to the same set of ideas
Kuhn 1970
What are three steps on how a profession changes ?
- Pre Paradigm Stage
- Paradigm Stage
- Crisis (inability of paradigm to deal with new problems)
Influence of Philippe Pinel
prescribes physical exercise and manual occupations for people in asylums
Influence of Adolf Meyer
purposeful use of time is helpful and a gratifying activity
Identify and explain the philosophical origins of OT
- Moral Treatment
- focus on patients environment and life situation
- engagement of patients
- physical, temporal and social environment corrects faulty habits of living
- basket weaving
Influencers of Arts and Craft Movement
- John Ruskian
- William Morris
- jane Addams
- Octavia Hill
Influence of Susan Tracy on OT
- resurfaced the use of occupation with mentally ill
- educating student nurses on therapeutic use of activities as part of treatment
What is the NSPOT and when was it founded
- key members
- National Society for the Promotion of Occupational Therapy
- March 15, 1917
- Eleanor Clarke Slage
- George Edward Barton
- Adolph Meyer
- Susan Johnson
- Thomas Kidner
- Isabel Newton
- Susan Tracy
Where and when was OT founded
- USA
- 1917
- American Occupational Therapy Association = 1921
Who introduced the term OT
George Barton
Who was the father of OT
Willian Rush Dunton Jnr
- 1915 first textbook
- need for ‘right’ activity
- psychiatrist
- arts and craft movement
Who was the Mother of OT
Eleanor Clarke Slagle
- social worker
- organised first school in 1915
- treatment approach :
1. habit training
2. purposeful activity
Who produced the first set to OT principles and when
Dunton
1918
WWI influence on OT
- reconstruction aides
- arts and crafts
- took care of returning veterans
and
- retraining functional use of body for those wounded
- bedside/ward occupations e.g. knitting
WWII influence on OT
- development in prosthetics and assistive technological development
1947
- first journal Occupational Therapy and Rehabilitation first published
- Willard and Spackman’s Principles of OT was first textbook