Thursday, 28 July 2022

What is Occupatonal therapy?

 


Occupation therapists try to suggest and give support to those who face disabilities, mental health, and other problems such as illnesses and conditions, such as support aids and or tools to make as many areas of life as possible easier than what they would them. Patients may be referred to an Occupation therapist for whatever reason. For example; easy grip jar openers for someone who has Dyspraxia such as someone like myself, intend to help people gain independence.

Their role is to support vulnerable people to get equipment, environment, or materials in the places where they live and work for their needs.

An occupational therapist is a health care professional who tries to help people with disabilities, mental health, and other problems developing, recovering, or maintaining the daily living and working skills of people with physical, mental, or cognitive impairments. This could be for people who are struggling physically, mentally, or both, whether it is in the home, in careers, or out and about or what or both.

An Occupatientional therapist's role is to support people of all ages, with physical sensory, mental, and communication needs to help to be independent as possible. In helping them to improve their ability to help them to live equal life the same as other people as much as possible.https://rcotss-ip.org.uk/what-is-occupational-therapy 

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/occupational-therapy/



It is important to recognize disabilities, mental health, and other problems, and how they affect people's lives, and you can try to support them. There are tools, aids, etc to support all difficulties people face but there are some that you could suggest to them, depending on the problems and the difficulties they face.  Here are some difficulties I faced due to my Dyspraxia. Opening jars, and bottles, carrying heavy saucepans, straining water out of hot food, etc. 


 Types of therapy.

( CBT) Cognitive – behaviour therapy, it treats Anxiety, Depression, eating disorders and stress. The intentions are to try and help a peoples’ confidences, self – esstream, etc. Trying to encourage them to think from negative to positive for example, I am going to fail that exam to I am going to pass that exam.

Psychodynamic therapy to try and help people who are struggling to come to terms traumatic situations from childhood even through adulthood. Such as people who face Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) , which is a type of Anxiety.  This could be people are struggling to come to terms with negative situations that happened any time in the past.

Support therapy support and guidance for those who face mental health and emotional problems.

Creative therapy something the person may do themselves with or without being empowered by a professional, even may or may not realize they have helped to or tried to how themselves. However,’ it can work for some people not others. Creative therapy can be another way of expressing thoughts, feelings etc towards what is and isn’t going on around them, such as drawing, painting, poetry, writing etc. It’s possible to think and feel as we do with or without a reason whether it’s happy, sad, angerly, laughing, crying etc. http://www.locumoccupationaltherapy.co.uk/types-of-occupational-therapies/info_50.html

 https://totalassist.co.uk/physio-occupational-therapists-whats-the-difference/



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