Occupational Therapy and new forms of caring into mental health

Abstract

There's lately been an encouragement for the constitution of nets of psychosocial attention that worked toward the introduction of an integrated action within a communal basis, under the psychosocial rehabilitation guidelines. In those new sites of attention, the occupational therapy professional must take, according to its specificity, the enlarging of the care and also the possibility of retrieving the citizenship rights of the subjects. As the main tool in occupational therapy is the activity which reflects the subject's day-by-day, it may transform the action by promoting back a social protagonism from whom it was torn: those marked by history of psychiatry. Therefore, the occupational therapy should not be barely an instrument of intervention for controlling and eliminating psychic malady. Otherwise it should contribute for the development of an individual and collective life and existence more interesting, more open and also more creative. We, occupational therapists and facilitators of this transformation process, should be fatigueless achievers of possibilities, inaugurating a caution which priority may be the liberty of creation of all the subjects involved.