"Occupational therapy: Where science, creativity and compassion collide." - Jessica Kensky (2016 AOTA Welcome Ceremony)
"Occupational therapy: Arguably the most empowering, creative, holistic and meaning-enhancing healthcare profession... Adding life to days." - Jamie Grant (Director, The Occupational Therapy Hub)
As occupational therapists, OTAs and student OTs, we provide person-centred support to those whose health and/or well-being prevents them from doing the daily activities that matter to them. Our professional remit is vast, so the settings, client groups and tools we use can differ greatly. But, despite these differences, many experiences and elements of OT are universal!
So - to mark 5 years since The Occupational Therapy Hub was born - we are asking you to share your thoughts and ideas with us!
In this forum...
please tell us the 5 things (you think) that all OTs can relate to.
🌎 We look forward to reading and sharing your views with the global community!
Participation,Environment,Autonony,independence,Assistive technology, purposeful activities,
Activity analysis, relationship centred care, interdependence
activity analysis, play, parenting, human connection, meaningful & purposeful activity
Client-centered, creative, evidence-based, meaningful and empowering!
1. Advocating agency and choice for all.
2. The right of all individuals to be wrong and to make bad decisions
3. ......also the right to experience the consequences of those decisions.
4. Belief in the possible and supporting others in that belief
5. The continual search for, and sharing of, truth and evidence.
If you cannot espouse those principles, you can overlay your practice with all the models of practice, assessments, analyses and other stuff that you like but your practice will have no solid foundation, no everlasting value.
A few of our followers shared their thoughts on this, via social media:
Assisting in the skills development, independence in activities of daily living, meaningful and purposeful activities, well-being and quality of life, and, as Townsend said in 1997, "occupation is the active process of living."
Activity, Enviornment,Transition, Autonomy,Interdependence😊
The importance of meaningful , routine, activity analysis, self-care and goal setting in supporting occupational performance.
Pragmatism, understanding that there is no one size fits all approach, thinking outside the box, , and 'what does an OT do again?'