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She initiates this critique by first asking the provocative question, “Is Occupational Therapy a sufficiently vital and unique service for medicine to support and society to reward” (Reilly,1962, p.3)? Reilly suggests it is precisely these critical questions and line of discourse that we as practitioners need to be embracing to maintain our unique and vital contribution to the healthcare
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Mary Reilly aims to mark the profession as vital by focusing our attention to the distinctive quality that occupational therapy holds: the unique speciality of defining the value of“work” to man. (Reilly, 1962). It is this concept and the critical engagement from which great ideas such as this stems, are necessary in ensuring a professional organization’s existence in these dynamic and demanding times. Suzanne Peloquin also believes that occupational therapy’s attributes are unique and standout from others in the healthcare field. The uniqueness that Peloquin refers to and asks her readers to preserve and incorporate in our practice is the founding member’s early vision of caring and empathy. She writes, “To see hearts engaged is to see personal actualization, an occupational link with identity, a making of meaning. The depiction transcends more limited visions of activity or productivity and allow us to see individuals occupying their …show more content…
Reilly collaborates this sentiment writing, “And more than all this, it implies that man, through the use of his hands, can creatively deploy his thinking, feelings and purpose to make himself at home in the world and to make the world his home” (Reilly,1962,p.2). It is precisely this distinctive blending of visionary statements and scientific exploration that lends occupational its
Mary Reilly aims to mark the profession as vital by focusing our attention to the distinctive quality that occupational therapy holds: the unique speciality of defining the value of“work” to man. (Reilly, 1962). It is this concept and the critical engagement from which great ideas such as this stems, are necessary in ensuring a professional organization’s existence in these dynamic and demanding times. Suzanne Peloquin also believes that occupational therapy’s attributes are unique and standout from others in the healthcare field. The uniqueness that Peloquin refers to and asks her readers to preserve and incorporate in our practice is the founding member’s early vision of caring and empathy. She writes, “To see hearts engaged is to see personal actualization, an occupational link with identity, a making of meaning. The depiction transcends more limited visions of activity or productivity and allow us to see individuals occupying their …show more content…
Reilly collaborates this sentiment writing, “And more than all this, it implies that man, through the use of his hands, can creatively deploy his thinking, feelings and purpose to make himself at home in the world and to make the world his home” (Reilly,1962,p.2). It is precisely this distinctive blending of visionary statements and scientific exploration that lends occupational its