OBJECTIVE To investigate the level of awareness of the occupational therapy profession among final-year health sciences students at Kuwait University. METHODS This study utilized a survey targeting final-year students in the Health Sciences Center at Kuwait University schools of medicine, pharmacy, dentistry, and allied health sciences. The survey addressed awareness of occupational therapy, ...

abstract introduction: low self–esteem has a continuous relation with chronic psychiatric disorder. occupational therapy increases self- esteem by performing purposive activities and profoundly believes in the relation of occupation and health .this research, examines the effect of day center of occupation therapy services on patients´ self–esteem and the length of duration of hospitalization i...

O ccupational science, as decribed by Clark et al. (1991), has emerged from occupational therapy. This emergence, referred to here as partition, has involved fashioning a discipline out of a profession. It has been a lengthy process requiring considerable thought and discussion. Because the formation of a discipline out of a profession seems to be without precedent in the scientific community, ...

In her Issue Is article entitled "Should Music Be Used Therapeutically in Occupational Therapy'" (AJOT, March 1992, pp. 275-277), Anne MacRae discussed issues that are not new. From 1984 until 1987, Kitchener-Waterloo Hospital in Kitchener, Ontario, was fortunate to have a part-time music therapist as a member of its occupational therapy department. Music therapy was introduced with the client ...

Tbis anicle was accepledJor publicalion !Viay 15, 1993. I n 1947 the first postprofessional programs leading to graduate degrees were established for registered occupational therapists. At that time, undergraduate courses in occupational therapy consisted primarily of techni4ues for patient treatmery[, Consequently, knowledge of and application of the theolybase for occupational therapy was an ...

Home health care is a rapidly growing and diversified in­ dustly At the 1988 annual conference of the National Associa­ tion of Home Care, however, the most frequent comment heard by American Occupational Therapy Asso­ ciation (AOTA) representatives was that occupational therapy is the most underutilized service in home health care. The primary reasons given for the underutilization of occupati...

This investigation compared language use and social interaction in children with autism receiving two forms of occupational therapy: occupational therapy using standard techniques, and occupational therapy incorporating animals. Twenty-two children between the ages of 7 and 13 received both forms of therapy in a school-based occupational therapy program for children with autism. Results suggest...

Debra Lindstrom-Hazela,∗, Md. Monjurul Habibb, Nazmun Naharb and Mohammad Mosayed Ullahc Department of Occupational Therapy, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, USA Department of Occupational Therapy, Bangladesh Health Professions Institute (BHPI), Centre for the Rehabilitation of the Paralysed (CRP), Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh Department of Occupational Therapy, La Trobe University, Melb...

The relationship between language development and sensory integration was explored through single case experimental studies of one female and three male aphasic children ranging in age from 4 years, 0 months to 5 years, 3 months. Other agencies had assessed all the children in the area of language development at least 6 months before the start of occupational therapy. Three of the four children...

The selection of the theme for this special issue of the American Journal of Occupational Therapy (AJOT)—social justice and health disparities—supports occupational therapy’s growing interest in addressing unjust inequities that limit opportunities for participation in society. Over the past two decades, the occupational therapy literature has examined societal issues that influence occupationa...