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.

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.

Therapists in this field of genial health then help the individual practice the activities in manageable stages like teaching them in a much different and much easier way to complete an activity, recommending changes that will make the activity easier to the individual and also through providing devices that make them complete their activities completely easier and in a less tiresome manner.

According to statistics, a good percentage of worlds population is affected by this disorder which is seen to have a negative Impact on the affected individuals self-esteem, relationship and their ability to live a normal life just like everybody. This shows the need of occupational therapists in this field both in governmental and non-governmental institutions which help meet the needs of the affected individual and also help them fit in to the 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.

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.

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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