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Occupational therapy is a premier way to promote the skills people need for the job of living. Defined as a profession primarily concerned with the promotion of health and well-being through occupation, the occupational therapist is constantly addressing the problems and obstacles people face with well-being in their day-to-day lives in order to help them live life to its fullest potential. To pinpoint these hurdles, therapists use analysis of physical, environmental, psychosocial, mental, spiritual, political and cultural factors and borrow techniques from a wide array of fields, including but not limited to nursing, psychiatry, social work, orthopedics, and rehabilitation.

In a school setting, Occupational Therapists help students deal with the stresses of daily academic and social life. American youth often have trouble dealing with the hectic and demanding life of a student, and need help sequencing their daily routines. As an Occupational Therapist, you will take a direct role in bringing order, health, and well-being to a students life.

Occupational therapy plays on the philosophy of holism and the idea that occupation is essential for ones health. As an occupation therapist, methods are used to work systemically through a sequence of actions known as the Occupational Therapy Process, consisting of several phases. Generally, occupational therapists operate in the areas of physical, mental, and community health. These therapists use various means to provide the following services:

• Teach new ways approaching daily tasks
• Instructing segmentation and sequencing of more complex tasks
• Analysis of home and job environment with recommendations for change
• Performance assessment and instruction
• Use and provision of adaptive equipment to patients
• Counseling of family members
• Use of creative media for therapeutic activities

Occupational therapists are now required to pursue education beyond a four year degree, with a Master’s degree in the field. Acceptable candidates will have background knowledge in biomedical, occupational, behavioral, and environmental sciences. Though the range of salary changed based on the are one works in, occupational therapists enjoy a median income of $70,470 (2009), with average entry level salaries of $56,300.

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