- •Seasonal affective disorder
- •Diagnostic criteria
- •Physiology
- •History
- •Treatment
- •Incidence Nordic countries
- •Other countries
- •Sad and bipolar disorder
- •Role of Occupational Therapy in Treating sad
- •Biomedical approaches
- •Light Therapy
- •Effectiveness
- •Antidepressant Medications (Pharmacotherapy)
- •Psychosocial approaches to sad interventions
Psychosocial approaches to sad interventions
OTs play an important role in the implementation and recommendation of psychotherapeutic interventions, which follow psychosocial rehabilitation and recovery-based approaches.
The roles of OTs in psychosocial rehabilitation often include the following:
Identifying the clients' psychosocial issues, strengths and limitations associated with the condition.
Assessing clients’ readiness, motivation, and belief in their abilities to make changes in their lives.
Identifying what is meaningful to the client.
Identifying social support systems that are available to help the client achieve their goals.
OTs often use guiding frameworks, such as the Canadian Model of Occupational Performance and the Model of Human Occupation to help clients set rehabilitation goals and identify areas of occupational performance that are affected by the symptoms associated with SAD.
Several types of interventions fall within the psychosocial scope of occupational therapy, and are used by an interdisciplinary team of health care providers who work with clients with SAD. In a health care system that is driven largely by medical models, OTs can play an important role in promoting psychosocial rehabilitation and recovery when addressing the underlying issues associated with SAD.