history of OT Flashcards
acts in 1930s that influenced ot
- Soldiers rehabilitation act
- Civilian vocational act
- Treating tuberculosis
- Great depression
1930s influences
- Medical conditions: cardiac conditions, cerebral palsy, tuberculosis, poliomyelitis
- Curative workshops
- Habit training
- Industrial therapy
- Kinetic therapy
- Reconditioning of military personnel
- Therapeutic occupation
1940-59 influences
- Large numbers of soldiers injured.
- Development in prosthetics, assistive technology and neurodevelopment care were accelerated during this period.
- More ot recognition
- Emerging schools for ot
- 1947 first William sparks book published
key people 1930
Colonel Ruth Robinson- served in ww2. Later served as AOTA president, influenced creation of certified OT assistant programs in USA. Jonas Salk Margaret Rood Karl & Berta Bobath Wilma West Paul Elwood, M.D.
1940 trends
- Increase physical medicine and rehab
- Differentiation from physiotherapy
- Expansion of paediatric practice
- Accreditation of education programs
- New demand for OT with outbreak ww2
who was the first to hold diploma of to and what year
Ethel Francis 1933
crisis to 1940-1950
came under pressure from medicine to establish theoretical rational and empirical evidence for practice.
1950-1959
- New drugs and technology
- Rehabilitation Movement
- Deinstitutionalisation Movement
- Occupational Therapy Assistant established in 1958; began in psychiatry
1960-1979
- Civil rights, and the Vietnam War provided important context on society as it addressed social justice
- School based services for disabled children is mandated by law in the USA
- American Occupational Therapy Foundation is created
key people 1960-1979
Mary Reilly, Ed.D.: influenced conceptual thinking about the importance of OT to human productivity.
• A. Jean Ayres, Ph.D.
• Gail Fidler
• Wilma L. Wes
define reductionism
refers to a scientific effort to reduce the empirical world to its least common denominator for explanation. Then they could be measured and their relationship to other units could be specified
whats mechanistic paradigm
- The kinesiological model
- The psychoanalytic model
- The neurological model.
- Common dominator was the attempt to isolate particular effects that activity was meant to have on neurological, musculoskeletal or psychodynamic mechanisms.
important advance in the field
- Substantial increase in technology for remediating specific dysfunctions
- Occupational Therapists potential to modify patient’s pathological conditions was made more clear
- A deeper understanding of how bodily structures and processes made possible or limited performance
the 2nd crisis in to
- Lack of focus on OT
- Conflict amongst theorist concerning the focus of the profession and lack of theoretical support
what year was occupational science born
1980-1999