What is Ergotherapy??
The word ergo is of Greek origin and means 'work'.. Ergotherapy, also known as 'occupational therapy' (occupational therapy)’, It is an individual-oriented professional specialty that aims to achieve maximum progress in the health and well-being of clients through occupational training.. The main goal of occupational therapy, To enable participation in daily living activities. Individuals' request, They achieve this by improving their abilities or arranging the environment in line with their needs or expectations.. Occupational therapy, child with mental and physical limitations, all adolescents and adults, elderly and disabled services, from children to illnesses or adapting to daily life, It is a field that covers many professional groups, from sociology to architecture..
Occupational therapists psychiatry, neurology, orthopedics, rheumatology, pediatricians, geriatrics, oncological, can work with branches of science such as surgery.
So who is an occupational therapist in Turkey??
22 May 2014 dated 29007 According to the regulation published in the Official Gazette no., the definition of occupational therapist in our country is given as follows.:
- Manages the necessary evaluations and rehabilitation procedures for the reintegration of individuals who have been excluded from society..
- Necessary method to ensure independence in daily life, identifies tools and equipment and teaches their use.
- Evaluates the limitations of disabled individuals resulting from their physical or mental disability., implements practices that will enable them to continue their daily activities and business.
- Disabled people's home, It evaluates its functionality in work and school environments and makes suggestions to maximize its performance and ensure its adaptation to the environment..
- Physically disabled individuals, emotional, evaluates psychosocial and developmental competencies using appropriate measurement and testing methods.
- Individual or group professional, Conducts and implements rehabilitation programs regarding the use of educational, social and artistic activities.
- Evaluates personal and environmental factors that affect the participation of disabled individuals in society.
- It provides emotion-perception-motor integration training and can apply the theory we call 'Sensory integration' in this field..
Ergotherapy Models
Occupational therapy, It contains many models according to the areas and diseases in which it is used.. Some of them are:
- Occupational therapy intervention process model (Occupational Therapy Intervention Process Model)
- Activity performance process model (Occupational Performance Process Model)
- Human Activity model (Model of Human Occupation)
- Canadian Activity performance and participation model (Canadian Model of Occupational Performance and Engagement)
- Australia Activity performance model (Occupational Performances Model – Australia)
- Kawa (River) model (Kawa-River Model)
- Functional group model (Functional Group Model)
- Functional information processing model (Functional Information Processing Model)
- Biomechanical welding frame model (Biomechanical Frame of Reference)
- rehabilitation model (Rehabilitative Model)
- Neurofunctional model (Neurofunctional Model)
- Cognitive deficit model (Cognitive Disabilities Model)
- Dynamic system model (Dynamic Systems Theory)
- Sensory integration model (Sensory Integration Model)
- Lifestyle performance model (Lifestyle Performance Model)
- Patient-centered resource framework model (Client Centered Frame of Reference)
- Cognitive behavioral resource framework model (Cognitive-Behavioral Frame of Reference)
- Psychodynamic resource framework model (Psychodynamic Frame of Reference)
- Model of the nature of human performance (Ecology of Human Performance Model)
- Recovery and self-management models (Recovery Models and Self-Management Models)
- transactional model (Curtin participation model, lifestyle tree model, Mahidol klinik system model)
- Forensic Occupational Therapy Model (Forensic Occupational Therapy Model)