A Visit to the Motion Study Exhibition

English, Alan

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“…Questions began to arise, however, as therapists became aware of revolutionary industrial processes that were changing the way in which things were made in industrial settings. They wondered whether the same methods might apply to patients (English 1945). A few also responded to the Government's directive to address patients' ability to earn a livelihood, substituting repair work on watches, the assembly of bicycle bells and clocks and the industrial assembly of gloves and slippers for the more familiar handcrafted scarves, cane work baskets and embroidered table mats (McDougall 1942, Smith 1945, Cox 1947, Johnson 1947).…”

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“…Suggested topics included ways to Occupational therapists were also receptive to theories developed in other contexts. For example, having learned how time and motion studies were used to redesign industrial tasks, English (1945) suggested that these principles be applied with patients preparing to return to the workforce. In addition, occupational therapists applied biomedical concepts and biomechanical principles to their work.…”

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Early Perspectives of Patients, Practice and the Profession

Hocking¹

2007

British Journal of Occupational Therapy

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This article draws on an analysis of the British Journal of Occupational Therapy and texts published in England from 1938 to 1951 to describe the ways in which early British occupational therapists perceived themselves and their practice. To give context, the impact of World War II, the medical advances of the time and the profession's overarching goals are outlined. Three themes are presented. First, therapists' use of craft activities, the knowledge that they held about the therapeutic application of craft and the demands of using craft activities in hospital environments are described. The therapists' efforts to articulate a theory base and to demonstrate the efficacy of occupational therapy are the second and third themes. The analysis reveals the circumstances that brought about a shift from craft activities to rehabilitation and workplace technologies, and how the diversional activities that characterised practice in mental health and long-stay physical settings lost ground to remedial and vocational outcomes.

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