Anthu asanu ndi limodzi adasonkhana mu March 1917 kuti akhazikitse National Society for Promotion of Occupational Therapy. Achisanu ndi chimodzi akuyamika kuti ndi omwe anayambitsa ntchito zothandizira.
Koma, kuwonjezeka ndi changu chozungulira ntchito ntchito monga chithandizo chamakono sichinapangidwe ndi anthu asanu ndi mmodzi okha. Njira pakati pa msonkhano wa amuna ndi akazi okonda 6 omwe ali ndi maganizo okhwima pantchito yolimbitsa zaka 100 pambuyo pake ili ndi anthu odzipatulira ambiri.
Chofunika kwambiri, Susan Elizabeth Tracy, Herbert J. Hall, MD, ndi Adolf Meyer adakhudza kwambiri zaka zonse zoyambirira za ntchito yophunzitsa. Onse atatuwa ankalumikizana nthawi zonse ndi oyambitsa asanu ndi limodzi ndipo lero, zopereka zawo zimapezeka mosavuta, chifukwa onse analemba zolemba zomwe zathandiza kuti ntchito yothandizira ipite patsogolo.
Kudziwa bwino ntchito zawo, komanso anthu atatuwa, ndikofunikira kumvetsetsa kukula kwa chithandizo cha ntchito.
Susan Elizabeth Tracy
Susan Tracy adayitanidwa kuti akhale gawo la gulu lokhazikitsidwa, koma anali kuphunzitsa maphunziro ogwira ntchito ndipo sakanatha kupita nawo. Susan, ndiye, adatchulidwa ngati wogwirizira m'malo moyambitsa.
Tracy ankaphunzitsa ngati namwino ndipo anali kugwiritsa ntchito ntchito ndi odwala kuti azifulumizitsa machiritso (ndikuphunzitsanso anamwino kuti achite chimodzimodzi) kumayambiriro kwa 1905.
Ambiri mwa omwe anayambitsa ntchitoyi adayesetsa kuyesa kugwiritsa ntchito mankhwala othandiza anthu omwe ali ndi thanzi labwino.
Tracy anaona ntchito yowonjezereka. Mu 1910, adafalitsa buku lakuti Studies in Invalid Occupation . Mitu yambiri ya buku lake imasonyeza, m'mawu ake omwe, a Tracy, omwe angapindule ndi ntchito: ana omwe amapezeka, malo oletsedwa, kuika kwaokha, maphunziro amodzi, mwana wamasiye, kuchipatala, agogo, wamalonda, ndi mphamvu zowonongeka, mu nthawi yolindira, popanda kupenya, malingaliro okhudzidwa.
Herbert J. Hall, MD
Herbert Hall anamaliza maphunziro ake mu 1885 ali ndi digiri ya zamankhwala kuchokera ku Harvard. Hall anali ndi chidwi chophatikizana ndi kayendedwe ka Art and Crafts mu mankhwala. Ntchito yake yachipatala inali yokhudza kulongosola ndi kupereka "mankhwala othandiza" monga chithandizo kwa odwala matenda a mitsempha. Anatsegula msonkhano ku Massachusetts komwe adagula amisiri kuti aphunzitse kupukuta manja, mbiya, zitsulo ndi matabwa. Mu 1905 ndi 1909 Hall inalandira ndalama zokwana madola 1000 kuchokera ku Harvard kuti zithandize pakuphunzira chithandizo cha neurasthenia kupyolera mu ntchito.
Pazifukwa zomwe ndikufuna kudziwa, kusankhidwa kwake kuti alowe mu National Society for Promotion of Occupational Therapy anakanidwa ndi William Rush Dunton.
Hall anakhalabe pulezidenti wa American Occupational Therapy Association kuyambira 1920-1922.
Hall inalemba mabuku atatu omwe adakalipo kwa owerenga: Malingaliro Osagwedezeka, Ntchito ya Manja Athu: Phunziro la Ntchito Zomwe Zilibe Zovomerezeka , ndi Zojambulajambula za Anthu Opunduka .
Adolf Meyer
Meyer anali katswiri wa zamaganizo m'zaka zoyambirira za m'ma 2000. Anatumikira monga chipatala ndi mkulu ku chipatala cha John Hopkins kwa zaka zopitirira 30 ndipo anali purezidenti wa American Psychiatric Association kuyambira 1927-1928.
Kuwonetsa kwa Meyer ndi chidwi pa ntchito ya odwala kunayambira kumayambiriro kwa chaka cha 1892 ndipo adakambirana pa imodzi mwa mapepala oyambirira omwe anapereka ku US
Pa John Hopkins, adalemba Eleanor Clarke Slagle monga Director of Occupational Therapy. Slagle, yemwe panopa amadziwika kuti ndi mayi wa chithandizo chamankhwala, amamuuza Meyer kukhala mphamvu yaikulu pa ntchito yake.
Meyer analemba buku la filosofi ya Occupational Therapy ndipo adalongosola pamsonkhano wachisanu wa National Society wa Promotion of the Occupational Therapy. Zomwe zili m'munsiyi zikuwonekera kuti Meyer amvetsetse maganizo a psyhcobiololgy-lingaliro lomwe iye adalimbikitsira-momwe adokotala a maganizo amalingalira zokhudzana ndi chilengedwe, chikhalidwe, ndi maganizo a munthu pamene akufotokoza mankhwala.
Kumvetsetsa kwakukulu kwa odwala ake kunali kosakanikirana ndi chidwi chake pa chithandizo cha ntchito.
Thupi lathu silili chabe mapaundi ambiri a thupi ndi fupa akulingalira ngati makina, ali ndi malingaliro osazindikira kapena moyo wowonjezera. Zonsezi zimakhala zamoyo zokhala ndi chizoloŵezi cha kupumula ndi ntchito, kumenyera nthawi (monga momwe tingalankhulire) m'njira zambirimbiri, zomwe zimamveka bwino komanso zimakhala zomveka bwino pamene zimadziwika ngati imodzi mwazokha -kugwiritsa ntchito mphamvu zopanga mphamvu zomwe zimapanga dziko lenileni la zamoyo.