What is Occupational Therapy?
by Tommy Carr
1. a form of therapy for those recuperating from physical or mental illness that encourages rehabilitation through the performance of activities required in daily life - Google
2. enables people to achieve health, well being and life satisfaction through participation in occupation - COT
3. a profession concerned with prompting health and well being through engagement in occupation - WFOT
4. a holistic health care profession that aims to promote health by enabling individuals to perform meaningful and purposeful activities across the lifespan - Wikipedia
5. focuses on enabling people to live satisfying and meaningful lives by helping them participate in the occupations they want to do, need to do and are expected to do - Royal Adelaide Hospital
6. the assessment and treatment of physical and psychiatric conditions using specific, purposeful activity to prevent disability and promote independent function in all aspects of daily life - NHS Careers
