occupational therapy

English

Noun

occupational therapy (usually uncountable, plural occupational therapies)

1. The therapeutic practice of encouraging better quality of life through the pursuit of work or other occupations.
2. (ironic) Busy work.
3. (psychiatry, education, mental health) Sensory play for children often involving an obstacle course to relieve stress while the therapist works to nurture the patient's basic life skills.

   Synonym: OT

Derived terms

• occupational therapist

Translations

therapeutic practice

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 職能治療／职能治疗 (zhínéng zhìliáo), 職業治療／职业治疗 (zhíyè zhìliáo), 作業治療／作业治疗 (zuòyè zhìliáo)

• Finnish: työterapia
• French: ergothérapie (fr) f
• German: Ergotherapie (de) f, Beschäftigungstherapie f
• Indonesian: terapi okupasi
• Italian: ergoterapia (it) f
• Malay: terapi carakerja
• Polish: terapia zajęciowa (pl) f
• Scottish Gaelic: teiripe ghnìomhachd f
• Swedish: arbetsterapi (sv) c
• Ukrainian: ерготерапія f (erhoterapija)

See also

• occupational therapy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia