Occupational Therapy

Occupational therapy is a profession designed to promote health and quality of life through occupation. The main purpose of Occupational Therapy is to facilitate individuals' participation in day-to-day activities. Occupational therapists achieve this goal by:
- engaging individuals in activities that enhance their ability to fully participate in daily life;
- Changes / adaptations to the living, physical and social environment.
Occupational therapists benefit from a bachelor level education in order to acquire the necessary skills and knowledge with a high degree of interdisciplinarity, both for an individual approach and for a group approach of individuals:
which presents weaknesses in the structures and functions of the organization, due to changes in the state of health; where barriers to full integration into social life arise.
Occupational therapists work on the principle that participation can be facilitated or
restricted by the physical, social, attitude or legislative environment.