What Do Occupational Therapists and Assistants Do in Their Profession?
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Article Title: What Do Occupational Therapists and Assistants Do in Their Profession?
Author: Kranklyn Madison
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By and large, occupational therapy is most certainly a fast thriving career, and this is made due to a variety of reasons. This has led more likely students to grow to be interested in employment opportunities in the field, and right at the top of that list is the occupation of an occupational therapy assistant. While you may have a general idea about the field, it’s nevertheless essential that you take a better look at the positions themselves and to see what it is what an OTA actually does.
Occupational therapy is all about improving the quality of life for people from all ages and backgrounds, dealing with nearly any kinds of disability. That disability could be physical, emotional, mental or developmental, and it could be permanent or the result of a recent injury or traumatic event.
Occupational therapy has various goals and outcomes for different victims across a full range of life “occupations”. That doesn’t just mean a working life or career, although job competencies and things like that are certainly included. But it also means the rest of the occupations in your life, from day to day chores and tasks, to life independence, social hobbies, learning, playing, coping and more.
With all of that mentioned, an occupational therapy assistant will be working with the full occupational therapist to help their patients in their life occupations, raising their quality of lifestyle, finding remedies for ailments and overcoming challenges and so forth. It’s generally up to the OT to diagnose or examine a patient and then develop a treatment arrangement.
However in many cases, it’s the OTA that then takes over the daily management of that plan. OTAs will help patients with exercising and a number of other treatments. They are there to help, inspire, congratulate and provide valuable feedback to the OT, who can then make any necessary changes to the treatment plan or program.
One day, an occupational therapist assistant may be supporting a patient in a wheelchair learn to move about and navigate obstacles and daily hiccups, and on another day, they may be working with a young child to learn how to use a pc or improve their social interaction with other youngsters. OTAs have the important responsibilities of recording progress and problems, and working together with the OTs to decide on the best way to make progress.
Further to this, OTAs generally tackle a few administrative operations, such as billing and working with medical health insurance providers. However, most of the administrative work will be handled by an occupational therapist aide, that is a step below an assistant and is an unlicensed/uncertified profession.
The point is, OTAs take care of many different issues with their profession, and it’s certainly a gratifying and active profession. It’s all about helping people and making a difference in their lives, and across all of the “occupations” that a person has. From firsthand application of exercises and treatments, to working with OTs to develop revised treatment programs and handling a few administrative tasks, OTAs take on a lot in this exciting and rapidly growing field and profession.
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Article Title: What Do Occupational Therapists and Assistants Do in Their Profession?
Author: Kranklyn Madison
Word Count: 538
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By and large, occupational therapy is most certainly a fast thriving career, and this is made due to a variety of reasons. This has led more likely students to grow to be interested in employment opportunities in the field, and right at the top of that list is the occupation of an occupational therapy assistant. While you may have a general idea about the field, it’s nevertheless essential that you take a better look at the positions themselves and to see what it is what an OTA actually does.
Occupational therapy is all about improving the quality of life for people from all ages and backgrounds, dealing with nearly any kinds of disability. That disability could be physical, emotional, mental or developmental, and it could be permanent or the result of a recent injury or traumatic event.
Occupational therapy has various goals and outcomes for different victims across a full range of life “occupations”. That doesn’t just mean a working life or career, although job competencies and things like that are certainly included. But it also means the rest of the occupations in your life, from day to day chores and tasks, to life independence, social hobbies, learning, playing, coping and more.
With all of that mentioned, an occupational therapy assistant will be working with the full occupational therapist to help their patients in their life occupations, raising their quality of lifestyle, finding remedies for ailments and overcoming challenges and so forth. It’s generally up to the OT to diagnose or examine a patient and then develop a treatment arrangement.
However in many cases, it’s the OTA that then takes over the daily management of that plan. OTAs will help patients with exercising and a number of other treatments. They are there to help, inspire, congratulate and provide valuable feedback to the OT, who can then make any necessary changes to the treatment plan or program.
One day, an occupational therapist assistant may be supporting a patient in a wheelchair learn to move about and navigate obstacles and daily hiccups, and on another day, they may be working with a young child to learn how to use a pc or improve their social interaction with other youngsters. OTAs have the important responsibilities of recording progress and problems, and working together with the OTs to decide on the best way to make progress.
Further to this, OTAs generally tackle a few administrative operations, such as billing and working with medical health insurance providers. However, most of the administrative work will be handled by an occupational therapist aide, that is a step below an assistant and is an unlicensed/uncertified profession.
The point is, OTAs take care of many different issues with their profession, and it’s certainly a gratifying and active profession. It’s all about helping people and making a difference in their lives, and across all of the “occupations” that a person has. From firsthand application of exercises and treatments, to working with OTs to develop revised treatment programs and handling a few administrative tasks, OTAs take on a lot in this exciting and rapidly growing field and profession.
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