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Occupational therapy is an allied health care profession that makes the use of assessment and intervention to maintain, develop or recover the meaningful activities of individuals, groups, or communities. Occupational therapy focuses on treating people with mental health problems, injuries, impairments or disabilities. Occupational therapy also aims to help children with disabilities to participate in school and social activities or situations, to provide support for older adults who experience physical and cognitive changes and injury rehabilitation. Physical therapy, nursing, psychiatry, orthopedics and social work are some disciplines from where occupational therapy borrowed its principles and techniques. This book unravels the recent studies in the field of occupational therapy and its utmost significance in modern times. It is compiled in such a manner, that it will provide an in-depth knowledge about the theory and practice of occupational therapy. Researchers and students actively engaged in this field will find this book full of crucial and unexplored concepts.