Over-simplification
In the editorial on Creative the June issue you quote Mr. Adaflis as saying that "occupational therapy js tracts and absorbs while art therapy^ the use of the fine arts is a and unique aid to the mental Patie J recovery". There is nothing unique" in the rehabilitation of the
Therapy^
,
dyna^5
...
"dynamic a^j
n16!]^
His patient. reliability, discipline and painstaking aP"0f cation of the knowledge of a teaif1 j
hospital
demands
skilled
occupati^j
workers;
therapists,
nurses, doctors and psychiatric s&
.
contributes his or nJ quota of ability to the socialisationi a.e remotivation and attitude change of ^ mental patient, and to his retraining normal habits of life and work. OccUP^ tional therapists are comparative s comers to this team, but their role workers.
Each
developed rapidly.
They
are
no
\?
??
concerned with the occupation or distr.e tion of the patient alone. Instead jj a analysis and assessment of disabilities j, retraining in and preparation for ? and the activities of daily life is
^
210
1? doing ProvVp (i?,^uncti?nmore advanced
situaf-
this they centres) a
*n which at the same time the recovers confidence and a feeling
Patie ?n of
.
Th0*1 6
w?rthRr?vision
tive
bejn actiyity
is
a
of opportunity for creabasic need of human
f??d> entertainment, comfort suc^ ^ ^as an imPortant a mental patient and rrns Part of the occupational
and8S'
Place-?rkoften
thera
'f
Programme. Its claim to uniqify therapy over-simplifies the
ple3.e' tion
fS t^le treatment menta,,y
'Ustifi?d Mai,j
i
be
a
com-
and the rehabilita^ anc* cannot
"ougIas Bennett, M.D., D.PJM. Hospital, S.E.5.
'QUdsley
In the editorial on Creative the June issue you quote Mr. Adaflis as saying that "occupational therapy js tracts and absorbs while art therapy^ the use of the fine arts is a and unique aid to the mental Patie J recovery". There is nothing unique" in the rehabilitation of the
Therapy^
,
dyna^5
...
"dynamic a^j
n16!]^
His patient. reliability, discipline and painstaking aP"0f cation of the knowledge of a teaif1 j
hospital
demands
skilled
occupati^j
workers;
therapists,
nurses, doctors and psychiatric s&
.
contributes his or nJ quota of ability to the socialisationi a.e remotivation and attitude change of ^ mental patient, and to his retraining normal habits of life and work. OccUP^ tional therapists are comparative s comers to this team, but their role workers.
Each
developed rapidly.
They
are
no
\?
??
concerned with the occupation or distr.e tion of the patient alone. Instead jj a analysis and assessment of disabilities j, retraining in and preparation for ? and the activities of daily life is
^
210
1? doing ProvVp (i?,^uncti?nmore advanced
situaf-
this they centres) a
*n which at the same time the recovers confidence and a feeling
Patie ?n of
.
Th0*1 6
w?rthRr?vision
tive
bejn actiyity
is
a
of opportunity for creabasic need of human
f??d> entertainment, comfort suc^ ^ ^as an imPortant a mental patient and rrns Part of the occupational
and8S'
Place-?rkoften
thera
'f
Programme. Its claim to uniqify therapy over-simplifies the
ple3.e' tion
fS t^le treatment menta,,y
'Ustifi?d Mai,j
i
be
a
com-
and the rehabilita^ anc* cannot
"ougIas Bennett, M.D., D.PJM. Hospital, S.E.5.
'QUdsley
