2020 Volume 39 Issue 4 Pages 459-467
The purpose of this study was to clarify the focus of interventions, technology, and role of occupational therapists in the practice of inpatient occupational therapy for mentally ill offenders under the Medical Treatment and Supervision Act. We conducted a semi-structured interview with an occupational therapist specializing in the above-mentioned medical treatment;qualitative analyses indicated a conceptual structure of occupational therapy that aims at the “regional life that patients want to maintain”. As a member of a multi-disciplinary team in this medical treatment, occupational therapists focus on the regional life desired by patients, and collaborate with patients so that they can stably perform daily life occupations. By doing so, occupational therapists indirectly prevent patients from harming others again.
