Occupational therapy is a client centred profession that aims at enabling the client’s participation and engagement in their everyday occupations. The occupational therapist achieves this in several ways; by working with the client (and the client's family/key workers), or through modifying the occupation, or environment. This is to enable the client to engage in occupations that they want to, need to or are expected to do (World Federation of Occupational Therapists, 2012).
Occupational therapists work collaboratively with the client, family, health professionals and educators, to enable participation in meaningful occupations. Occupational therapist may teach a parents/professionals strategies such as Social Stories for improving a child's understanding of social situations, managing behaviours or teaching functional skills to promote occupational performance, such as an accurate description about the event, a description of how others may react, and instruction for appropriate action or response in that social situation. This enables the child to have the appropriate level of understanding which assists them to participate in everyday activities.
References:
World Federation of
Occupational Therapists. (2012). Definition of occupational therapy. 2013, from
http://www.wfot.org/AboutUs/AboutOccupationalTherapy/DefinitionofOccupationalTherapy.aspx
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