Alcohol abuse and perceptual-motor dysfunction: the occupational therapist's role.
A review of the literature on perceptual-motor deficits in alcoholic patients is presented. Studies show that there is a relationship between perceptual-motor dysfunction and alcoholism. Because occupational therapists treat perceptual-motor deficits in other kinds of patients, they may have a role in treating these deficits in alcoholic patients as well. To assume such a role, however, occupational therapists must document a relationship between dysfunction in activities of daily living and perceptual-motor dysfunction in the alcoholic patient. Unless such a relationship is established, treatment of perceptual-motor dysfunction in alcoholic patients would not fall within the scope of occupational therapy.
Van Deusen
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Occupational Therapy, University of Florida, Gainesville 32610.
D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000150:complications / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D006801:Humans; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D009788:Occupational Therapy; D010468:Perceptual Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D011597:Psychomotor Performance