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OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY
Occupational Therapy is concerned with individuals
whose capacity for performing their specific occupational
roles are threatened by deprivation, disease, illness
or injury.
"Occupation" is not limited to employment,
but includes the aspects of self-care and leisure. The
goal of Occupational Therapy is to protect or restore
the individuals physical, psychological and social capacities
to perform their occupational roles effectively.
Occupational Therapy is the exercise of skill, care
and judgement in assessing the degree of a person's
mental disorder or physical disability and treating
such a person accordingly, by selecting and utilizing
appropriate activities of that person's pattern of life.
Such activities may be modified or applied to the defined
problem of either the individual with specific disorder
or disability, or the group to which that individual
belongs. The activities, modified or unmodified, are
designed to achieve progress towards the attainment
of maximum independence for the individual in the appropriate
environment.
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