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.