Activities and Mental Health

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Activities and Mental Health

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Activities

• Ordinary things people do
• Can be named in the lexicon of the cultures

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Activities Play, games and sports

• Identify those games or activities you engaged
  most frequently during
• Preschool years
• Grade school years
• Pre-adolescent years
• Adolescent years
• Who taught you the activity Enjoyable ? Shared ?

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Play
Spontaneous play
Organized play (Game)
Non-competitive games
Competitive games (Contests)
Intellectual contests
Physical games
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Through Play, games and sports

• We learn and develop
• Sensory-perceptual skills
• Motor skills
• Self-identity, self-concept
• Cognitive skills
• Testing of reality
• Meeting your needs

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Activities Self-Care

• Basic self-care
• Grooming
• Oral hygiene
• Bathing/showering
• Toilet hygiene
• Personal device care
• Dressing
• Feeding and eating
• Medication routine
• Sexual expression

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Activities Self-Care

• Instrumental occupations of self-care
• Use of the telephone
• Food preparation
• Household keeping
• Laundry
• Shopping
• Money management
• Use of transportation
• Medication management

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Activities Jobs and Careers

• Information processing
• Linguistic competencies
• Spatial competence
• Logical, mathematical competence
• Kinesthetic competence
• Musical competence
• Interpersonal competence
• Intrapersonal or personal competence

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Activities Leisure and Recreation

• Arts and Crafts
• Painting
• Wood crafts
• Weaving
• Pottery
• Dance
• Music
• Drama

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Activities Leisure and Recreation

• Natures Challenge
• Hunting
• Surfing
• High adventure activities

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Summary of Human Activities

• Play, games and sports
• Self-Care
• Jobs and Careers
• Leisure and Recreation

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Functions of Human Activities

• Play, games and sports
• Develop skills task skills and interpersonal
  skills
• Self-Care
• Self-maintenance, sustain health, prevent from
  disability and disease
• Jobs and Careers
• Economic independence
• Leisure and Recreation
• Have fun, relaxation

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Balance of Activities Temporal Adaptation
SUN MON TUE WED THR FRI SAT
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Activity Variable

• Sleep
• Chores
• Work
• Active Leisure
• Passive Leisure
• Socialization

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Problems and disorders in mental health

• Emotional Disorders
• Depression
• Anxiety
• Obsessional disorders
• Eating Disorders
• Anorexia nervosa
• Bulimia nervosa
• Conduct disorders
• Hyperkinetic Disorders
• Developmental Disorders
• Schizophrenia

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Comparison of Daily Activities
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Mental Health Service Team Members

• Psychiatrist
• Nurse
• Psychologist
• Occupational Therapist
• Social Worker

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Occupational Therapy

• Purposeful Activity
• Independence
• Quality of Life

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Occupational Therapy Process

• Identify problems
• Roles
• Performance Areas (Self-care, Work and Leisure)
• Performance Components
• Sensori-motor skills
• Cognitive skills
• Psychosocial skills
• Environment Factors

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Canadian Occupational Performance Measure

• Activities
• Want to do
• Need to do
• Expected to do
• Performance and Satisfaction
• Client-Centered Therapy

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Occupational Therapy

• Acute Ward
• Chronic Ward
• Vocational Rehabilitation

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Doing and BecomingNow we realize our being in
action and the man who has made something may be
said to exist in a manner through his activity.
(Aristotole, 384 BC322 BC)
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