Occupational Therapy In Mental Health

By Edna Booker


This entail a science of enabling engagement in everyday living through enabling people with mental disorders to perform the occupations that foster health and their wellbeing and enabling a just and inclusive society so that a person participates to his or her daily occupation in life. We therefore see the need of occupational therapy in mental health that will help save your life.

Many people tend to have a belief that therapy in mental health is a thing meant for the grown up individuals and not meant for children without having a second thought that children too have an occupation in the society. A child has the occupation of playing and learning through observing and also through being taught. The therapist therefore has to evaluate the Childs school performance together with his or her skills in the field and then comes out with the results to show the Childs intellectual development. In case any unwellness of the mind in the child is detected, the child is immediately put under therapy.

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.

It is a fact that a large number of the worlds population is found to be affected by mental ailment and which has a direct impact on their self-esteem; hence, have an effect on their relationships and more so on their ability to function and interact with people in their everyday normal life. Therefore, there comes the need to have occupational therapists both in NGOs and governmental institutions which will help cater for the needs of these affected minorities and help them in having their place in society.

Identifying the individuals who are struggling with this disorder is one of the aims of this therapeutic procedure. It identifies those who face depression, learning disabilities and various other disorders. They can be managed through therapeutic evaluations or medication.

This endeavor has several goals; one of them is being able to make the affected person get involved in all day to day activities. The individuals have the power to choose the occupation that they want or which they are expected to. Through modification of the environment, it makes it easier for them to easily engage in their occupation.

Checking on ones genial health is crucial to living a long life with no disorders. A good genial health can makes ones life worth living while on the other hand a poor mental health can make one live a life that is not fulfilling in any way. These problems do not depend on age of a person or their cultures or education. It comes in all levels and therefore makes everybody prone to it.




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