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Saturday 27 June 2015

The Power Of Occupational Therapy In Mental Health


By Edna Booker


For a successful treatment of any mental health case, there must be collaboration between several health professionals each with distinctive roles to play. In addition to the medical professionals like the doctors, the nurses, the counselors, the social workers, and the therapists, the patient's caregivers, teachers, support providers, and aides also have a role to play. The occupational therapy in mental health is part of the collaborative process that brings other players in a collaborative approach with the purpose of reaching a specific goal of improving the client's quality of life.

The mental health occupational therapy is described as a client-centered approach that the therapists use to gain an idea of different factors that relates to the client's occupation and the environment and have an influence on their mental functioning as well as their subsequent functionality. The therapist assesses the occupation or occupations that are most meaningful to the clients.

The occupation in this case means more than just work. It focuses on any activity that the client engages in in their daily activities. It means anything one does at home and in the work place. They can include simple things like the personal hygiene, cooking, socializing, managing personal finances, and even leisure painting. These and other occupations are what the therapist relies on to enhance the client ability and help them live a satisfying and a more meaningful life.

The mental health occupational therapist is not very different. He relies on the client-centered approach as the means of gaining a deeper understanding of factors that relates to an individual occupations and the environment that have influence to their mental health and their overall functioning. Through the engagement in the occupations that are meaningful and purposeful, the client is able to regain a sense of achievement, well-being, and self-esteem that was affected by the illness or injury.

The client is then helped to engage in meaningful and purposeful occupations which in turn help them to regain some sense of fulfillment, achievement, self-esteem, and wellbeing as a whole. This helps them recover what was lost through brain injury or the related illness.

The sole purpose of this therapy is to help individuals live life to the fullest potential. In order to achieve this, the therapists have the role of helping the clients to consider their abilities, needs, interests, and strengths. In addition to this, the client's physical, social, as well as the cultural environment are also considered.

When dealing with an individual that has any form of a mental condition, the occupational therapist can employ a variety of the assessment techniques to help get the necessary information. The information is then used to create a personalized occupational profile that can be used for the purpose of goal-setting, and for treatment planning. The common areas of intervention include the life skills training, the cognitive rehabilitation, supported education, social and interpersonal skills training, life balance intervention, supported education and the modalities like the mindfulness and biofeedback.

The practice has been beneficial in several areas of interventions including the life skill training, supported employment, supported education, cognitive rehabilitation, social and interpersonal skills training, life balance intervention and even different modalities like mindfulness and biofeedback.




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