HISTORY OF OT Flashcards
Define paradigm
Broad assumptions and perspectives to unify the field and define the nature and purpose of OT practice
Phillipe Pinel
1900s
Unshackled psychiatric patients, encouraged part in activities
William and Henry Tuke
1900s
occs could minimise symptoms of mental illness
Who was considered the father of OT?
William Rush Dunton
What did William Rush Dunton do?
Moral treatment and therapeutic use of occs
Who was considered the mother of OT?
Eleanor Clarke Slagle
Habit and purposeful activities
Ran training for OT
Aldolf Meyer
Connection of mind and body and important for healthy pattern of living
What is NSPOT?
1918
National Society for the Promotion of OT
- Work should be carried on with cure as main object
- Work must be interesting
- Poor work is better than no work
Susan Cox Johnson
Arts and crafts
What is considered the first crisis in OT?
Pressure from medicine to establish theoretical rationale and evidence for practice.
Define reductionism
Explaining a phenomena in its simplest terms
When did the WFOT establish
1952
What did the discovery of antipsychotics lead to?
1950/60s
Community mental health programs to reduce cost of institutional care
Paradigm shift of 1970s-1990s?
Reductionism –> moral treatment
Mary Rielly, Elizabether Yerxa, Phil Shannon, Gail Fidler
What was the reconstruction program?
rehab program for soldiers and sailors returning to their civilian jobs