Crisis in Occupational Therapy or Occupational Therapy in Crisis?

Abstract

This article presents a short review of the aspects that led Occupational Therapy to changes as far as assistance is concerned; first within Modern Psychiatry and now in Mental Health. It also aims at describing a new identity for this profession as the measure at which it uses the prerequisits of intervention in Mental Health. Assistance techniques for patients in crisis are shown within the context of psychiatric emergencies.