How do they match: Occupational Therapists

  • Plan and implement programs and social activities to help patients learn work or school skills and adjust to handicaps.
  • Recommend changes in patients' work or living environments, consistent with their needs and capabilities.
  • Select activities that will help individuals learn work and life-management skills within limits of their mental or physical capabilities.

  • Analyze patient data to determine patient needs or treatment goals.
  • Collaborate with healthcare professionals to plan or provide treatment.
  • Develop treatment plans that use non-medical therapies.
  • Monitor patient progress or responses to treatments.