Teaching the Sick. A Manual of Occupational Therapy and Reeducation

Abstract

The lessons conveyed in this concise handbook were learned in the school of experience. The author is "self made," for earlier in life he won a victory over his own physical handicaps. No attempt has been made to produce a textbook on the reeducation of military and industrial cripples; the manual discusses broad principles, and special methods which may serve as illustrations. The modest desire is apparent to dispel prevalent misconceptions fostered by amateur enthusiasts, for in the mind of the author, occupational therapy presents two sides: one, education; the other and more important, therapeutics. It is not sufficient, then, that one be a craft teacher: one should have experience with pain, sickness and disability to qualify as a competent "occupational therapeutist." The treatise is worth reading for its good advice and many helpful hints.