ome stage
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in our lives experience a challenge to
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our mental health
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take a moment to think what would your
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life be like if you couldn't go to work
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see your friends or care for your family
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for many people with mental illness this
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is their reality
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which is where an occupational therapist
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can help
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occupational therapists help you to do
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those things that you want to do need to
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do and are expected to do
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occupational therapists can deliver
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evidence-based care to people of all
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ages
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the problem is is that there isn't
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enough occupational therapist to meet
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demand
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of the 27 000 occupational therapists
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registered here in australia only 12
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work in mental health
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and that number is not growing
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my research aims to address this
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working with occupational therapists and
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with consumers of mental health services
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i aim to identify ways that we can grow
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the occupational therapy workforce
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everybody has the right to receive the
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care that they need in the time that
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they need it
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by growing the occupational therapy
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workforce we can contribute to
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delivering health care services that
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focus not on illness but on recovery
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that focus on those meaningful everyday
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occupations that make up our lives in
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which go a long way to making you
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uniquely you
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