People Flashcards
Herbert hall
Adapted arts and crafts movement for medical purposes
Susan Tracy
Established first training courses for occupational nursing
William Rush Dunton
Father of occupational therapy
George Edward Barton
Founded consolation house.
Planned an organized the founding meeting of the national Society for the promotion of occupational therapy
Eleanor Clark Slagle
Mother of occupational therapy
Organized first professional school of occupational therapy
Isabel Newton
At the first meeting of the national Society for promotion of occupational therapy. Later became Barton’s wife
William Tuke
Develop moral treatment method. He promoted more humane custody and care for people with mental disorders. Rather than restraints and drugs
Philip Pinel
Introduced work treatment for the insane in the late 1700’s
Used occupation to divert patients mines away from the emotional disturbances and toward improving their skills
Benjamin Rush
One of the first US physicians to institute moral treatment practices
Thomas B Kidner
Friend of George Barton
Responsible for developing vocational rehabilitation for disabled Canadian World War I veterans

Susan Cox Johnson
Advocate for use of arts and crafts movement
Occupation can be morally uplifting and can improve mental and physical state.
Adolf Meyer
Meijer was one of the earliest psychiatrist support occupational therapy as a profession informed philosophical base of the profession using holistic approach