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Adolf Meyer

Adolf Meyer. and. George Barton. Adolf Meyer : Background. Born on September 13, 1866 in Niederweningen, Switzerland 1892: Received his medical degree from the University of Zurich Emigrated to the United States Wrote The Philosophy of Occupational Therapy in 1922

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Adolf Meyer

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  1. Adolf Meyer and George Barton

  2. Adolf Meyer:Background • Born on September 13, 1866 in Niederweningen, Switzerland • 1892: • Received his medical degree from the University of Zurich • Emigrated to the United States • Wrote The Philosophy of Occupational Therapy in 1922 • Died March 17, 1950 at his home in Baltimore

  3. Connection to OT

  4. Influence on OT • One of the founders of occupational therapy • Healthy living is a blend of “work and pleasure” • Occupation is therapeutic • The “work cure”

  5. Major Contributions • Mental problems are “problems of living” • Fundamentals of Life: “Work and play and rest and sleep” • “Our role consists in giving opportunities rather than prescriptions. There must be opportunities to work, opportunities to do, to plan and create, and to use material.” (Gordon, 2009).

  6. George Barton:Background Born 1871- Brookline, MA Died 1923

  7. Connection to OT Architect Boston Society of Arts and Crafts Little formal medical experience Experience through personal illness, nursing, and independent study First exposure to OT in Clifton Springs Sanatorium- Reverend Elwood Worcester

  8. Influence on the Profession • 1914- Consolation House • Work as rehabilitation: “He used his own body as a clinic to work out the problem of rehabilitating himself” (Quiroga, 1995, p. 118). • Grading occupations, energy conservation strategies, efficiency • 1915- coined the term “occupational therapy” • “If there is an occupational disease, why not an occupational therapy?” (Reed & Sanderson, 1999) • 1917- NSPOT- President and chair of Committee on Research and Efficiency • Treat the “whole person” • Occupation as a drug

  9. Major Contributions Rehabilitation can be achieved through work and productivity Used OT to work with the physically disabled Energy conservation practices Founded NSPOT

  10. Additional Accomplishments • Cured his paralysis • Consolation House • “He wanted to ‘raise the cry that it is time for humanity to cease regarding the hospital as a door closing upon a life…’” (Reed & Sanderson, 1999)

  11. Value of OT Medicine only healed illness and patients left hospital completely dependent- OT gives people a purpose Productive and meaningful activity speeds recovery A good occupation is one that “promoted physical improvement, clarified and strengthened the mind and could become the basis or the corollary of a new life upon recovery” (Peloquin, 1991). Injury or illness does not mean life is over. Work can create a new meaningful and purposeful life.

  12. End of Life 1918-Resigned from presidency 1918- married Continued as chair of Research and Efficiency Committee of NSPOT 1923- died from tuberculosis

  13. References • AOTA: A historical perspective. (2009). In the American occupational therapy association, inc. Retrieved from http://www.aota.org/About/39983.aspx  • Bing, R. (1981). Occupational therapy revisited: A paraphrastic journey. American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 35, 499–518. Retrieved from http://www.aota. org/ Practitioners/Resources/Slagle/1981.aspx • Founders image. (1917). Retrieved November 9, 2009, from: http://www.nysota.org • Gordon, D. M. (2009). The history of occupational therapy. In E. B. Crepeau, E. S. Cohn, & B. A. Boyt Schell (Eds.), Willard & Spackman’s Occupational Therapy (11th ed.) (pp.202-215). Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. • Peloquin, S.M. (1991). Looking Back--Occupational Therapy Service: Individual and Collective Understandings of the Founders, Part 1. American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 45, 352-260. Retrieved from http://www1.aota.org/ajot/ abstract.asp?IVol=45&INum=4&ArtID=9&Date=April%201991 • Quiroga, V.A.M. (1995). Occupational therapy: The first 30 years 1900-1930. Maryland: The American Occupational Therapy Association, Inc. • Reed, K. L., & Sanderson, S. N. (1999). Concepts of occupational therapy (4th ed.). Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. • http://www.nndb.com/people/022/000119662/ image of adolf meyer

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