The Role of Occupational Therapy in Disaster Preparedness, Response, and Recovery

Scaffa, Marjorie E.; Gerardi, Steven M.; Herzberg, Georgiana; McColl, Mary Ann

doi:10.5014/ajot.60.6.642

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“…Occupational therapy practitioners offer client-centered intervention that emphasizes the value of active engagement in healthy occupations that leads to positive change in occupational performance skills and patterns to promote wellness, role competence, satisfaction, and improved quality of life (Cara, 2005). Active participation in meaningful occupations offers a distraction from negative patterns of thinking and promotes feelings of confidence and control while learning new skills (Scaffa, Gerardi, Herzberg, & McColl, 2006). Occupational therapy practitioners may collaborate with victims of human trafficking in a variety of settings, including hospitals, rehabilitation centers, schools, community clinics, mental health centers, and community-based programs (AOTA, 2011a).…”

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confidence: 99%

Role of Occupational Therapy in Combating Human Trafficking

Gorman

Hatkevich

2016

The American Journal of Occupational Therapy

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Human trafficking is a modern-day form of slavery that includes sex trafficking, labor trafficking, and trafficking of children. It is estimated that 35.8 million people are enslaved around the world. Because of the traumatic experiences that victims of human trafficking encounter, the needs of victims are extensive and require the services of several providers, including health care providers, for victims to transform into survivors and thrivers. Currently, the role of occupational therapy is minimal and unexplored. The profession of occupational therapy has the capacity of having a profound role in both providing client-centered care services to victims and survivors of human trafficking and partaking in preventive advocacy efforts to combat human trafficking. Further advocacy efforts are required to promote the profession of occupational therapy in combating human trafficking.

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Section: Needs Of Victims Of Human Traffickingmentioning

confidence: 99%