Occupational Therapy In Mental Health

By Edna Booker


This mainly involves the use of assessment and treatment to recover or maintain the daily living and work skills of people with cognitive disorder considering the psychological well-being or absence of mental wellness. Therefore there is need to know and understand how occupational therapy in mental health affects people.

Some people tend to think that therapy in mental health is only meant for adults, which is a wrong way of thinking basing on the fact that kids after all do not have any occupations in the society. But a Childs main job is playing and learning therefore a therapist can evaluate a kids skills in playing and school performance and then compare them with what is developmentally appropriate. This helps in diagnosis of any genial un-wellness waiting to occur in later stages of the Childs life.

The individual with this disorder is first evaluated in order to outline their most important goals and priorities before they are put under the treatment. This is done in a systematic manner through a sequence of actions called occupational therapy process. It is through this process that the patient is interviewed, put through test and then the outcome is analyzed. The therapist is then able to understand the patients problems.

In the following stage of therapy, patients are made to try out couple of activities but in manageable stages that are in a much different way. Afterwards, a recommendation is made to refer them to easier activity based on their performance level on their previous activities. Also, they are introduced to devices that enable them get through the activity in a much easier way.

Statistics show that a large population of people has these ailments. These illnesses are seen to have a negative impact on the affected population. The affected individuals are observed to have a low self-esteem have relationship problems and have problems in living a normal life. Therefore comes out the need to have occupational therapists in every medical institution worldwide. Through this, the affected individuals will have less trouble in getting medical help.

This form of treatment aims in identifying persons struggling with these conditions; those who face depression, learning disabilities and other disorders. The following enlisted genial unwellness is then managed with treatment such as therapy or medication to help improve the individuals wellness.

Among the many goals of therapy is to enable the affected persons to be able to participate in the activities of everyday life. It is also to the persons ability to engage in the occupations they want to or expected to. They are helped through modification of their environment to better support their occupational engagement.

Being mentally healthy is a guarantee to living a good long life with no medical problems. Poor mind health can make one lack all the good things that life has to offer while good intellectual capabilities enables one to live an enriching life. These problems have no boundaries in choosing who gets affected. It affects people of different ages, occupation and of different educational background.




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  3. Being mentally healthy is a guarantee to living a good long life with no medical problems. Poor mind health can make one lack all the good things that life has to offer while good intellectual capabilities enables one to live an enriching life. These problems have no boundaries in choosing who gets affected. It affects people of different ages, occupation and of different educational background.
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