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This is the name of the society first formed by the occupational therapy founders.
What is the National Society for the Promotion of Occupational Therapy?
This founder was the first secretary of NSPOT.
Who is Isabelle Newton?
During WWI, this was the term used to label soldiers suffering from mental and nervous disorders as a result of the stresses of war.
What is shell shock?
This founder "literally built an empire through her belief in occupational therapy and by her political astuteness, achieved control over the Commissioners in New York State to support her programs."
Who is Eleanor Clarke Slagle?
This near founder, who was unable to attend the inaugural meeting of NSPOT, published her lectures in the first occupational therapy textbook, Studies in Invalid Occupations.
Who is Susan E. Tracy?
This is the year that the NSPOT Articles of Incorporation were signed.
What is 1917?
This woman served in every elective office of AOTA.
Who is Eleanor Clarke Slagle?
Patients with this condition were classified into Class A-D based on their physical condition.
What is tuberculosis?
This term is defined as a disproportion of females to males in an occupation relative to either the adult population or the labor force.
What is gender segregation?
This location served as the first official headquarters of NSPOT.
What is Consolation House in Clifton Springs, NY?
The founders of occupational therapy sought an alignment with this profession in order to seek legitimacy.
What is the medical profession?
This man was a Canadian architect who gave NSPOT an “international flavor.”
Who is Thomas Kinder?
Dr. Elliot Brackett started an occupational therapy program at this military hospital in 1918.
What is Walter Reed General Hospital?
Between 1910 and 1960, medical schools maintained quotas limiting women to ___% of admission.
What is 5%?
This orthopedic surgeon advocated for the inclusion of occupational therapy services in the military.
Who is Dr. Joel Goldthwait?
This is the name that replaces the National Society for the Promotion of Occupational Therapy.
What is the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA)?
This founder had tuberculosis and was treated at Clifton Springs Sanitarium.
Who is George Barton?
This psychiatrist and Medical Director of the National Committee on Mental Hygiene described reconstruction aides, “especially those working in handicrafts” as “worth their weight in gold.”
Who is Dr. Thomas Salmon?
According to Frank (1992), this group fought to enter the services as nurses at the same time as OTs fought for equality as women in the military.
Who are qualified black female nurses?
During WWI, the role of occupational therapy in treatment of patients with tuberculosis consisted primarily of this.
What is graded activity?
This is the common belief of the occupational therapy founders.
What is that “the right occupational can help persons in need”?
This founder is known as “the father of occupational therapy.”
Who is William Rush Dunton?
The US government first accepted its responsibility to provide reconstructive services for injured and disabled soldiers through passage of this legislation.
What is the War Risk Insurance Amendments of 1917?
The establishment of this Act, as well as the Women’s Medical Specialist Corps, provided opportunities for increased recognition and gains of white occupational therapists and black nurses.
What is the Army-Navy Nurses Act of 1947?
This author wrote "Opening Feminist Histories of Occupational Therapy".
Who is Gelya Frank?