Occupational Therapy - The Profession Flashcards
Activity in which one engages
Occupation
Treatment of a physical or mental illness
Therapy
End toward which effort is directed
Goal
State of doing things that requires movement of energy (being active)
Activity
State of being self-reliant, not requiring or relying on something else or others
Independence
Therapy based on engagement in meaningful activities of daily life, especially to enable or encourage participation in such activities despite impairments or limitations in physical or mental functioning
Occupational Therapy
Awakening of social consciousness; concept of moral treatment
Late 1700s and Early 1800s
an awareness that social structures lead to vast inequities
social consciousness
Who authored the Moral Treatment?
Pinel and Tuke
What is the central premise of moral treatment?
participation in the various tasks and events of
everyday life could restore persons to a more
healthy and satisfying functioning
- He introduced work treatment for the insane in the late 1700s
- farming as an important institutional life
- activities to divert the patients’ minds away from their emotional disturbances
- “Each patient must be critically observed and analyzed, then treatment should commence.”
Philippe Pinel
Established the York Retreat
William Tuke
What is the environment at the York Retreat?
Patients were approached with kindness and consideration
- First physician to institute moral treatment practices
- Father of American Psychiatry
Benjamin Rush
Who are the authors of the Arts and Crafts Movement?
John Ruskin and William Morris
- Using one’s hands to make items connected people to their work, physically and mentally, and thus was healthier
- Basic principle: value for authentic experiences, natural processes of construction, and quality of life
Arts and Crafts Movement
Introduced “work cure” and worked with invalid patients, providing medical supervision of crafts for the purpose of improving their health and financial independence
Herbert Hall
Participation on a limited basis from bed and gradually increasing the level of activity until the patient went into the workshop, in which she worked on weaving looms, ceramics and other crafts
work cure
Opened the Consolation House for Convalescent Patients wherein occupation in arts and crafts was used as a method of treatment
George Edward Barton
- Father of Occupational Therapy
- Known for his writings on the value of occupation for treatment
- Published “Occupational Therapy: A Manual for Nurses”
Dr. William Rush Dunton Jr.
- Mother of Occupational Therapy
- Introduced “Habit Training”
- Organized the “Henry B. Favill School of Occupations”
Eleanor Clarke Slagle
- designed to overcome disorganized habits, to modify other habits, and to construct new ones with the goal of restoring and maintaining health
- 24 hours a day
Habit Training
First professional school for OT practitioners
Henry B. Favill School of Occupations
- Wrote the “Studies in Invalid Occupations” which is the first-know book about OT
- Involved in teaching training courses
Susan Tracy
- occupation could be morally uplifting; it could improve the mental and physical state of patients and inmates in public hospitals
- advocate for high educational standards and
training of competent practitioners
Susan Cox Johnson
- establishing a presence for OT in vocational rehabilitation and tuberculosis treatment
- recognized for constructing institutions with physical disabilities
Thomas Kidner
- coined the term “Mental Hygiene” and “Mental Hygiene Movement”
- provided the foundational philosophical statements for the profession
Adolf Meyer
Formal birth of the profession of OT
National Society for the Promotion of Occupational Therapy
When was the National Society for the Promotion of Occupational Therapy established?
March 15, 1917 in Clifton Springs, New York
During this year, members voted to change the name of National Society for the Promotion of Occupational Therapy to ________?
1921, AOTA (American Occupational Therapy Association)
Its purpose is to rehabilitate soldiers who had been injured in the World War I.
Reconstruction Program (May 1917)
Who are the reconstruction aides during the WW1?
Orthopedic professionals, OT aides, physiotherapy aides, and vocational evaluators
Development and Expansion of vocational rehabilitation programs
Post WW1 through 1930s
Soldier’s Rehabilitation Act; vocational rehabilitation for soldiers disabled on active duty
Smith-Sears Veterans Rehabilitation Act of 1918
Civilian Vocational Rehabilitation Act; provide vocational rehabilitation services to civilians with physical disabilities
Smith Fess Act
War Emergency Courses were implemented to quickly train the needed occupational therapist
World War II: 1940 - 1947
successful completion of an examination became a requirement for registering as an OT [essay format]
1945 (World War II: 1940 - 1947)
AOTA adopted the format of an objective test
1947 (World War II: 1940 - 1947)
New technologies were developed such as splinting materials, wheelchairs, and more advanced prosthetics and orthotics
Post-World War II: 1950s – 1960s
Provided treatment that was significant for its holistic approach, healing not only the body of the patient but the mind as well
Rehabilitation Movement (1942 - 1960)
Changes in the Profession
- Shifted to a more technical focus, using modalities particular to the area of the profession
- OT education- focused on medical and scientific approach (decreased the emphasis on teaching arts and crafts)
- Trend toward the reductionist model continued throughout the 1960s