| If you are interested in becoming an occupational | | | | and Johann Reil greatly amended the hospital |
| therapist or an OT assistant, first realize you will | | | | system. Instead of using cruel restraints and |
| invest a large number of years in school. This | | | | metal chains, they usefully administered work and |
| means completing, at the minimum, a master's | | | | leisure activities to patients. Interest in this |
| degree. Usual classes consist of courses in the | | | | reform was unpredictable in the United States for |
| biological, behavioral, and physical sciences. | | | | a period of time. When physicians' interest in |
| Applying OT theory and skills is also studied. | | | | chronic diseases rose at the turn of the 20th |
| Hands-on training includes 6 months of supervised | | | | century, reform of the mental healthcare system |
| fieldwork. All states obligate graduates to pass a | | | | in the states was revived. Occupational therapist |
| national certification exam. This enables an OT | | | | jobs were then born in the 1910's. |
| to be a Register Occupational Therapist. States | | | | Today occupational therapist jobs are wide and |
| also require OTs to acquire a license. After you | | | | varied. In mental health settings, OTs attend to |
| have done all of this hard work, surely you will | | | | developmentally challenged, emotionally disturbed, |
| want to enlist the services of a Nulife specialist. | | | | or mentally ill patients. Therapists help these |
| We are a health care staffing agency. We | | | | people alleviate their problems with activities that |
| provide links to occupational therapist jobs all over | | | | help them cope with everyday life and its |
| the United States. | | | | challenges. Time management skills, shopping, |
| Agencies like Nulife are fairly recent, however, the | | | | budgeting, homemaking are addressed. People |
| practice of therapeutic methods to help those | | | | with stress-related disorders or eating disorders |
| considered "invalids" dates back as far as Greek | | | | can employ the help of an OT. So can those |
| times. A Roman physician named Celsus | | | | dealing with drug addiction, alcoholism, or |
| prescribed travel, conversation, travel, and | | | | depression. It seems to the writer that OTs are |
| exercise. Regrettably, by medieval times, | | | | earthly angels that bring solace to the unfortunate |
| humane treatment of the "insane" was quite | | | | and faltering. |
| rare. Then in 18th century Europe, Philippe Pineal | | | | |