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[The occupational therapist's role in an interdisciplinary team within the Rehabilitation and External Aids Program]
Agustina Pelatelli1, Celeste Romero, Mercedes Uño Carreño
1aguberta@yahoo.com.ar.
Abstract:
The role of an occupational therapist in the Mental Health team, particularly in the Rehabilitation and Assisted Discharge Program (PREA), is to provide a focus on the person and on a meaningful occupation for him. The interdisciplinary team of each device, involving an occupational therapist, performs planning goals and implementing the means to achieve through strategies of psychosocial rehabilitation. Meanwhile, intervention strategies are developed and individual support for each person is given to carry out a project of life in the community, building a social, occupational and significant work in order to enhance users' recovery.
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