Occupational Therapy
Occupational Therapists (OTs) work together with Nurses, Psychologists, Doctors and Social Workers to help you with the difficulties you are experiencing in your life. Based on research and theory about the importance of activity in people’s lives, they use everyday activity as the focus of their work.
They do this by looking at all the different activities that you need to do in daily life to be able to live as independently as possible - everyday activities that are often affected by mental illness or other disabilities.
For example they will:
- Work with you to find out how meaningfully you spend your time.
- Help you to develop useful routines that will be of benefit to you whilst in the State Hospital and when you leave.
- Help you to adjust to changes such as ward transfers, placements, therapies and discharge.
Through occupational therapy interventions, your OT will help and encourage you to:
- Become more motivated to do everyday activities.
- Participate more in everyday activities, thus achieving a meaningful balance in your life in relation to personal and domestic care as well as leisure and work activity.
- Maintain, develop or learn new skills that are required for day to day living.
OTs work with patients in individual and group settings. Your contact with them may take place on the ward, at the Occupational Therapy Service department, in a PARS centre or outside the Hospital whilst you are on a rehabilitation outing.
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