The Pros And Cons Of Occupational Therapy

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After reading the two required chapters and watching the lecture by Dr. Lamb it is easy to see that the view of occupation and the overall scope of occupational therapy have changed over the years. Current events drove the direct of the profession through war, hardships and discoveries. As detailed in Cole & Tufano (2008), occupational therapy has flowed through the eight major trends of moving away from the medical model, moving toward a holistic approach, expanding the definition of occupation, understanding cognition, sensation and neuroscience, embracing occupational science, building an evidence-based practice, human adaptation in the context of culture and community and putting the client first. Each of these trends was influenced by the times and …show more content…
3). After nearly 100 years, influential social movements, personalities, and world events the profession and the view of occupation has come to what it is today. The profession of occupational therapy is still tailored around using the healing powers of occupations. Yet occupation is now defined as: the things that people do that occupy their time and attention; meaningful, purposeful activity; the personal activities that individuals choose or need to engage in and the ways in which each individual actually experiences them (Boyt Schell et al. 2014, pg.1237). As stated by Cole & Tufano (2008), “OT applies theory in order to use it for a practical purpose, such as enabling the performance of self-care tasks for persons with different types of disability” (pg.17). The Occupational Therapy profession has evolved over the years to become a diverse, focused and evidence-based practice profession. Although the views of occupation may have altered slightly over the years, the innate function of occupational therapists is to use occupations as a means of