"occupational therapy" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: occupational therapies [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|-|+}} occupational therapy (usually uncountable, plural occupational therapies)
  1. The therapeutic practice of encouraging better quality of life through the pursuit of work or other occupations. Tags: uncountable, usually Translations (therapeutic practice): teràpia ocupacional [feminine] (Catalan), ergoteràpia [feminine] (Catalan), 職能治療 (Chinese Mandarin), 职能治疗 (zhínéng zhìliáo) (Chinese Mandarin), 職業治療 (Chinese Mandarin), 职业治疗 (zhíyè zhìliáo) (Chinese Mandarin), 作業治療 (Chinese Mandarin), 作业治疗 (zuòyè zhìliáo) (Chinese Mandarin), työterapia (Finnish), ergothérapie [feminine] (French), thérapie par le travail [feminine] (French), thérapie occupationnelle [feminine] (French), Ergotherapie [feminine] (German), Beschäftigungstherapie [feminine] (German), terapi okupasi (Indonesian), ergoterapia [feminine] (Italian), terapi carakerja (Malay), terapia zajęciowa [feminine] (Polish), трудотерапи́я (trudoterapíja) [feminine] (Russian), teiripe ghnìomhachd [feminine] (Scottish Gaelic), terapia ocupacional [feminine] (Spanish), arbetsterapi [common-gender] (Swedish), ерготерапія (erhoterapija) [feminine] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-occupational_therapy-en-noun-K0vmMU8N Disambiguation of 'therapeutic practice': 80 13 7
  2. (ironic) Busy work. Tags: ironic, uncountable, usually Derived forms: occupational therapist
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  3. (psychiatry, education, mental health) Sensory play for children often involving an obstacle course to relieve stress while the therapist works to nurture the patient's basic life skills. Tags: uncountable, usually Categories (topical): Education, Mental health, Psychiatry Synonyms: OT
    Sense id: en-occupational_therapy-en-noun-tlo3FIiU Topics: education, human-sciences, medicine, psychiatry, psychology, sciences

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.