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Occupational therapists are skilled in a number of areas, including mental health, rehabilitation, pain management, driving assessments, and pediatrics. They can help you to identify interests and goals, manage daily routines at home and in the community, modify daily tasks to make them easier to perform, and recommend activities that you can participate effectively in. Occupational therapists work with people across the lifespan to provide a range of supports and services to NDIS participants, including:
Occupational therapists in mental health work to increase an individual’s ability to live as independently as possible in the community while engaging in meaningful and productive life roles. OTs achieve this by helping clients address barriers to achieving their goals through interventions that focus on enhancing existing skills, creating opportunities, promoting wellness, remediating or restoring skills, modifying or adapting the environment or activity, and preventing relapse. It can significantly benefit an individual’s ability to participate and engage in the community and daily life activities and routines that are meaningful to lead productive lives.
Occupational Therapists work in achieving an optimal state of personal, social, and emotional wellbeing, as defined by each individual. This includes an individual’s life skills to enhance everyday functioning within life skill areas, such as:
Your Mental Health OTs help participants who struggle, feel overwhelmed, or hopeless trying to cope with psychological or emotional challenges. This may include difficulties sleeping, managing their emotions, concentrating, communicating, functioning normally within their local community, or getting out of bed in the morning. Strategies used by Your mental health OTs may include:
An occupational therapist is a practitioner who helps patients recover and improve their daily lives which have been affected by injury, illness or disability, through means of therapeutic exercises.
When an occupational therapist comes to a participant's house, they may perform an assessment of the patient’s daily routine and discuss what and how certain tasks may be difficult to perform. They may also assess the client’s motor skills, endurance, coordination, and balance/strength.
An occupational therapist will usually have a look around and assess environmental factors around the patient’s home, such as stairs, the distance between vital parts of the home, the various heights of objects used in daily activities etc. They may recommend the use and/or installation of various aids such as ramps (to assist mobility), bars in places such as the toilet area/bathroom, or equipment such as walking sticks or wheelchairs.
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