Self-Interventions: Applying Your Occupational Therapy Skills to Your Personal Health
There are occupational therapy students and practitioners living with chronic conditions. This may be you, a colleague, a mentor, or a mentee. Sixty percent of adults in the United States live with at least one chronic condition; 42% live with more than one (Irving, 2017). Although there currently is not yet published research on the rates of chronic conditions among occupational therapy students and practitioners, it is reasonable to conclude that many experience conditions that affect