The job of occupational therapist is very sensitive and full of responsibility. The main focus of occupational therapist is to change the patient’s life to his advancement. The patient can be suffering from any problem that may be physical, emotional or mental. OT’s task is to take care of these problems and giving solutions to them so that patient can regain confidence to do his day to day works and his occupation.

The therapist first studies the patient behavior, his environment and situation, then creates a plan for his problem. To cure every patient is a different task because each one has his own issues. To understand the problem reasons and solving these is the job of a therapist. Its always a tough task for an occupational therapist to deal with the patient who is suffering from a depressing situations and is in post traumatic stress disorder. He has to become a counselor to make the patient to feel stress free and fear free which are the common symptoms after a traumatic situation in life.

Occupational therapist must be having certain characteristics in his behavior apart from his specialties in occupational therapy. He needs to be very patient by nature. He must be having strong interpersonal and soft skills which are required to deal with patients because all of them are not very open at first level. They are needed to be explored by the therapists. He needs to be adaptive and kind also because task of occupational therapist is to assist the patient in all situations at home or other places where a patient lives. The patient may require his help in his basic tasks such as eating, cooking and dressing. He has to be very kind and gentle with his patient. By doing such activities, job of an occupational therapist not only helps the other person in building good mental and physical health but also increases OT’s self esteem too. Because helping others boosts the self confidence.

If we compare the earnings of an occupational therapist, these are very good as compare to other medical personnel. As OT’s can get as many clients as they can because they work at part time basis for personal clients as well. Also in every kind of working and living environment their help is required for betterment of life. They play a large role in creating one’s real identity in society. So society needs lots of occupational therapists to make it better for an easy life.

Author has a strong experience as an occupational therapist and is an active member of social welfare programs. He has started many occupational therapy rehab centers and rehab programs for social welfare.