What is Occupational Therapy?
Occupational therapy, also known as occupational therapy; It is a therapy and rehabilitation program that aims to increase the
quality of life by acquiring the independence and life roles of people in daily
life by acquiring work, occupation and activity. Physically handicapped,
disabled and mentally ill people gain self-confidence by developing their
abilities impaired due to illness with occupational therapy. The main purpose
of occupational therapy is to ensure the participation of people in activities
of daily living.
Occupational therapists achieve this goal by
developing the skills to do activities that people and communities want, need,
or are expected of, or by organizing the activity or environment in a way that
better enables people to participate. Therefore, occupational therapy focuses
on increasing the competence of people through the regulation of persons,
activities, environments or some or all of them to increase social
participation. For example; explaining the methods of transition from bed to
wheelchair to the patient, cutlery with modified handles for people without
hand grip, correct posture movement habits that prevent waist and neck health
and occupational injuries in workplaces are included in the field of
occupational therapy. Occupational therapy; it takes into account the
spiritual, physical, emotional and cognitive aspects of the person. It aims to
direct the disabled person to work, to receive vocational training and to be
more successful in the workplace.