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Alice Catherine Jantzen (August 17, 1918 – October 22, 1983) was an American occupational therapist. She was the first president of the American Occupational Therapy Foundation (AOTF), and chair of the occupational therapy department at the University of Florida from 1958 to 1976.
The American Occupational Therapy Foundation (AOTF) is a charitable, scientific and educational nonprofit organization founded in 1965. Mission.
Occupational therapy (OT), also known as ergotherapy, is a healthcare profession. Ergotherapy is derived from the Greek ergon which is allied to work, to act and to be active. Occupational therapy is based on the assumption that being active is a basic human need and that purposeful activity has a health-promoting and therapeutic effect.
Until March 1917, occupational therapy was not organized as a profession. This changed with the formation of the National Society for the Promotion of Occupational Therapy (NSPOT) that year, for which she was a founding member. [4] During the third annual meeting of the NSPOT, she was elected president.
The American Occupational Therapy Association building in Bethesda, Maryland The National Society for the Promotion of Occupational Therapy was the founding name of the AOTA. Occupational therapy was launched as a new profession at the first meeting of the National Society for the Promotion of Occupational Therapy at Consolation House, Clifton ...
She died in 1984, in Torrance, California, at the age of 75. [2] There is a small collection of her papers in the University Archives at USC. [19] In 2017, Rood was recognised by the America Occupational Therapy Association as 1 of 100 people who influenced the 100 year history of occupational therapy.
Pi Theta Epsilon is the scholastic honor society of the American Occupational Therapy Foundation. In the following list of chapters, active chapters are indicated in bold and inactive chapters are in italics. [1] [2] [3] [4]
The initials of the society's name, ΠΘΕ, were selected to represent Greek words related to occupational therapy. [3] Pi is from the first letter of the Greek word for advancement. [3] Theta comes from the first letter of the Greek word for therapeutic. [3] Epsilon was chosen because it is the first letter of the Greek word for occupation. [3]