Wednesday, July 1, 2015

How Occupational Therapy In Mental Health Affects People

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.

Some people tend to think that therapy in mental health is only meant for adults, which is a wrong way of thinking basing on the fact that kids after all do not have any occupations in the society. But a Childs main job is playing and learning therefore a therapist can evaluate a kids skills in playing and school performance and then compare them with what is developmentally appropriate. This helps in diagnosis of any genial un-wellness waiting to occur in later stages of the Childs life.

Before the patient is put under therapy, the therapist first outlines their goals and priorities. This is done systematically in questionnaire format which is considered part of this therapy process. Through this process, the patient is also interviewed, evaluated and their results are analyzed. This helps the therapist to see clearly how much the patient is affected.

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.

Being mentally healthy is a guarantee to living a good long life with no medical problems. Poor mind health can make one lack all the good things that life has to offer while good intellectual capabilities enables one to live an enriching life. These problems have no boundaries in choosing who gets affected. It affects people of different ages, occupation and of different educational background.




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