THE INTERVENTION BY THE OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST IN OUTPATIENT TOY LIBRARY: REPORT OF AN EXPERIENCE

Abstract

Playing children develop essential skills to guarantee the performance of roles and activities, making it essential to maintain the play in different contexts. The objective is to describe and discuss the possible role of the occupational therapist in outpatient toy library. This is an experience report of Occupational Therapy undergraduate students on their activities in field (internship on Care for Children and Adolescents), in outpatients toy libraries based on the analysis of the reports, in which are registered gender and age of the participants, objectives of the intervention, description of activities, strategies employed and results observed. The proposal to establish toy libraries in outpatient constitutes an alternative to humanize the care for children through a safe and welcoming environment. The role of the occupational therapist in this context seems to be proper and efficient, as the health professional who can mediate human actions, using their knowledge to enable important experiences in the development of physical, cognitive, social and social skills among children who attend health services. This study allowed to reaffirm the toy libraries as recreational spaces, capable of generating learning and improve human issues, thus making the child active and subject on their actions.

Keywords

• making it essential to maintain the play in different contexts. The objective is to describe and discuss the possible role of the occupational therapist in outpatient toy library. This is an experience report of Occupational Therapy undergraduate students on their activities in field (internship on Care for Children and Adolescents)
• in outpatients toy libraries based on the analysis of the reports
• in which are registered gender and age of the participants
• objectives of the intervention
• description of activities
• strategies employed and results observed. The proposal to establish toy libraries in outpatient constitutes an alternative to humanize the care for children through a safe and welcoming environment. The role of the occupational therapist in this context seems to be proper and efficient
• as the health professional who can mediate human actions
• using their knowledge to enable important experiences in the development of physical
• cognitive
• social and social skills among children who attend health services. This study allowed to reaffirm the toy libraries as recreational spaces
• capable of generating learning and improve human issues
• thus making the child active and subject on their actions.
• Child development; humanization; outpatient; occupational therapy