Unemployment: A Challenge to Occupational Therapy

Abstract

When faced with unemployed clients, occupational therapists too frequently treat their symptoms and ignore their joblessness, the net cause of much of their physical and psychological distress. This article suggests that occupational therapists can play a key role in helping unemployed people commit themselves to substitute activities which will protect them front the worst non-financial effects of unemployment. No treatment can be regarded as complete units the client is engaged in these alternative activities.