Occupational Therapy
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Registered in England & Wales Reg No. 5988036. © Copyright Neurophysioplus Ltd 2007
Registered in England & Wales Reg No. 5988036. © Copyright Neurophysioplus Ltd 2007
At NPP we have a dedicated team of skilled and experienced Neuro-Occupational Therapists working as part of the integrated Multidisciplinary Team. All of our Occupational Therapists have a wealth of experience working with adults with Acquired Brain Injury (Head Injury), stroke, and other neurological diagnoses such as Multiple Sclerosis. Within NPP we have treating therapists as well as those that offer Medico-legal report writing.
Occupational Therapy is a profession concerned with promoting health and well being through occupation. The primary goal of Occupational Therapy is to enable individuals to participate in the activities of everyday life. Occupational Therapists achieve this outcome by enabling people to do things that will enhance their ability to participate or by modifying the environment to better support participation. Occupational Therapists use careful analysis of physical, environmental, psychosocial, mental, spiritual, political and cultural factors to identify barriers to occupation. Occupational therapy draws from the fields of medicine, and many other disciplines in developing its knowledge base. A new discipline of occupational science has been developed to enhance the evidence base of the profession.
An Occupational Therapist works systematically through a sequence of actions known as the occupational therapy process:
Our occupational Therapists' have the skills that include the ability to empower clients through group activities and individual programmes in the following areas:
- Social Skills
- Daily Living Skills
- Money Management
- Personal Grooming
- Shopping
- Anger Management
- Problem Solving
- Leisure and lifestyle activities
- Environmental adaptation including provision of equipment or designing adaptations working in conjunction with architects
Occupation can be defined as "the active process of living" from the beginning to the end of life. Occupations are the active processes of looking after ourselves and others, enjoying life, and being socially and economically productive over the lifespan and in various contexts. These include (but are not limited to) work, leisure, self care, domestic and community activities. Occupational therapists work with individuals, families, groups, communities and organizations to facilitate health, well-being and justice through engagement in occupation.
What is Occupational Therapy?
These Process include:
- Referral
- Information gathering
- Initial assessment
- Needs identification/problem formation
- Goal setting
- Action planning
- Action
- Ongoing assessment and revision of action
- Outcome and outcome measurement
- End of intervention or discharge
- Review
Occupational Therapy Approaches:
- Teaching new ways of approaching tasks
- How to break down activities into achievable components e.g. sequencing a complex task like cooking a complex meal
- Comprehensive home and job site evaluations with adaptation recommendations.
- Performance skills assessments and treatment.
- Adaptive equipment recommendations and usage training
- Environmental adaptation including provision of equipment or designing adaptations to remove obstacles or make them manageable
- Guidance to family members and caregivers
- The use of creative media as therapeutic activity
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