Hello,
Yes I agree that OT is one of the few professions that spends a majority
of its resources in defining itself. I strongly believe the diversity of our
profession is a double edge sword that will end up cutting our hands off. OT
looks great on paper and is full of theory and frames of reference, but I
feel our broad scope of practice is what makes it so hard to find a unifying
voice that lay people will understand.
I will pass on a message that a PT friend of mine used to joke me with
until I set him straight.. but what he said got me thinking about a possible
marketing idea form place of work. Here is what he said:
" Physical Therapy, If it's physical than it's therapy. Speech and
language Therapy. If its speech and language it's therapy. Massage Therapy,
If its massage it's therapy. Occupational Therapy, If its occupation it's
therapy. Mike why is it that OT phrase makes no sense at all, but the rest
make sense to me. You guys should change your name or something less
confusing"
Occupational Therapy: If it's Occupation it IS therapy. I think I
might use this idea to help market OT in the acute OT department. I might
give formal meaning of Occupation than relate it to acute care tx's. Maybe
this will help the nurses and doc's have a better understanding. and I bet
my PT friend will get a kick out of it. What do you guys think?
Mike Butterfield OT
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Subject: {OOPS} RE: A Student's Perspective: Occupation-based Practice
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> We are the only profession that I know of that spends 24/7 debating who we
> are. Other professions just do and let their behaviors speak for
themselves.
> No discipline is pure. We all trip over each other. OT case managers look
> like social workers; mental health practitioners look like psych people;
> some OTs look like recreational therapists; some look like PTs; and so
on...
> OTs will always look like someone else, because the public looking at us
> cannot see "occupation." No one is qualified to judge other OT's by what
> one visually sees. Who is to say that the OT who looks like another
> discipline is not also centering his/her practice on "occupation?" PTs are
> clear about what they do, and yet at the same time they decided that they
> can do ADLs, cognitive disabilities, occupation, etc., while still doing
PT
> things.
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> If someone feels that the profession of OT has an identify crisis, they
> should not enter it. Studies show that people gravitate to the things that
> are most like themselves and with which they have a level of comfort.
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> Irene
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