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Why occupational therapy?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

A. Jawad Sheikh  and
Debbie Boultan
A. Jawad Sheikh
Affiliation:
Hollymoor Hospital, Birmingham B31 5EX
Debbie Boultan
Affiliation:
Midland Nerve Hospital, Birmingham, B15 2NJ
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Occupational therapy as a discipline (Finlay, 1988) has grown and matured with time. It has moved away from an ill-defined, imprecise and informal discipline to one which, while treating the patient as a whole being, nevertheless attempts to identify an individual's unique problems and treats them through purposeful activity. It strives to attain the qualities of a holistic, goal-orientated objective process.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 16 , Issue 7 , July 1992 , pp. 406 - 408
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Reference

Finlay, L. (1988) Occupational Therapy: Practice in Psychiatry, London: Croom Helm.Google Scholar

Further reading

Ballinger, B. R. (1971) The patients' view of psychiatric treatment. Health Bulletin, 29, 192–196.Google Scholar
Coia, D. & Joice, A. (1989) Occupational therapy – the forgotten speciality with the community mental health team? Psychiatric Bulletin, 13, 420–421.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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