The OTPF

The OTPF, or the Occupational Therapy Practice Framework, is an official document of the AOTA, which provides a generic outline of the domains of concern of OT and also provides a common terminology for the profession.  The reason that the OTPF is important to learn about is because it guides the OT profession in client care, as well as improves the standards of communication and highlights the occupational therapist's scope of practice.

One Role that I Carry

One role that I carry with me, personally, is that I am a cosplayer, or someone who dresses as certain characters and wears costumes.  Some different occupations that I have that go with being a cosplayer are attending conventions, traveling/driving to conventions, and also making/sewing my costumes.  Some activities that I perform while sewing my costumes is threading the sewing machine needles, pinning patterns together, and cutting out pieces of fabric with scissors.  Some tasks associated with the activities is gripping the needle and thread, grasping the scissors, kneeling on the floor to cut the fabric, gripping the pins, and movements of the wrists, such as flexion and extension.

How has OT's view on Mental Health Changed Overtime

For decades, mental health has played a crucial role in the field of therapeutic rehabilitation.  Within the field of occupational therapy, specifically, the importance of mental health has had an up and down trend analogous to that of a roller coaster, with its importance in including it within therapeutic treatments changing rapidly in each decade.  In this current decade, mental health is seen as a vital component to a client and how they are able to go back to their daily functions and occupations.  Incorporating techniques and management of mental health are important skills that an ot must have in order to better help their clients in having a successful treatment.  It is with great hope that future ots continue to place emphasis on the importance of this topic when it comes to treating clients, for it is a major factor that plays a role in a person's well-being and how they function in everyday society.