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Do Occupational Therapists Treat the Whole Person?
Author(s) -
Fordyce Meredith
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
australian occupational therapy journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.595
H-Index - 44
eISSN - 1440-1630
pISSN - 0045-0766
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1630.1990.tb01257.x
Subject(s) - phrase , occupational therapy , ambiguity , meaning (existential) , psychology , psychotherapist , medicine , linguistics , psychiatry , philosophy
Within occupational therapy there is a pervasive belief that occupational therapists treat the whole person and that this is a good thing. In this paper I examine the meanings and origins of the phrase “occupational therapists treat the whole person” and conclude that due to ambiguity of meaning and unsound basis, the phrase should be discarded from occupational therapy discourse.