The founding meeting for the National Society for the Promotion of Occupational Therapy (NSPOT) is held March 15 at Consolation House in Clifton Springs, New York. Proceedings from this meeting are published in The Modern Hospital. NSPOT holds a meeting with 26 attendees in New York in September.
Four women are sent to France as neuropsychiatry “civilian aides” to help World War I soldiers recuperate from “shell shock” and “war neurosis,” and 5 women are sent as reconstruction aides (RAs) to work with soldiers with physical injuries. RAs provided “diversion from pain and situation” and worked toward “recovery of function and specific deficits.”
The NSPOT Board of Management prepares an Emergency Course for Training for Reconstruction Aides, which is published in Maryland Psychiatric Quarterly.
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Throughout 2017, AOTA will be sharing about the 100 year history of occupational therapy on social media.
