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Title: OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY IN MENTAL HEALTH THROUGH COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION FOR LIFE SKILLS PROMOTION OF THE ADOLESCENTS: A CASE STUDY OF A SELECTED COMMUNITY IN THAILAND
Authors: Supat Chupradit
Volume:2 Issue: 10
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Supat Chupradit Department of Occupational Therapy, Faculty of Associated Medical Sciences, Chiang Mai University, Thailand
MLA 8 Chupradit, Supat. "OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY IN MENTAL HEALTH THROUGH COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION FOR LIFE SKILLS PROMOTION OF THE ADOLESCENTS: A CASE STUDY OF A SELECTED COMMUNITY IN THAILAND." Int. J. Arts&Humanities, vol. 2, no. 10, Oct. 2018, pp. 568-574, ijah.org/more2018.php?id=36. Accessed Oct. 2018. APA Chupradit, S. (2018, October). OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY IN MENTAL HEALTH THROUGH COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION FOR LIFE SKILLS PROMOTION OF THE ADOLESCENTS: A CASE STUDY OF A SELECTED COMMUNITY IN THAILAND. Int. J. Arts&Humanities, 2(10), 568-574. Retrieved from ijah.org/more2018.php?id=36 Chicago Chupradit, Supat. "OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY IN MENTAL HEALTH THROUGH COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION FOR LIFE SKILLS PROMOTION OF THE ADOLESCENTS: A CASE STUDY OF A SELECTED COMMUNITY IN THAILAND." Int. J. Arts&Humanities 2, no. 10 (October 2018), 568-574. Accessed October, 2018. ijah.org/more2018.php?id=36.
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Keywords: Occupational Therapy, Mental Health, Life Skills, Adolescent
Abstract: The research objective were: 1) to study the problems and the community needs about of adolescents, 2) to encourage participation in making a life skills program appropriated for adolescents and community needs 3) to develop life skills program which could be completed by the stakeholders and be presented with guidelines to develop activities so as to create by themselves and 4) to apply the Participatory Action Research (PAR) to find out life skills program. The participants were formal and non-formal leaders, parents, local governor, school teachers and adolescents. The researcher had collected the data by observing non-participation and participation, in-dept interview and note-taking, field note, reference from documents, and participating in the community planning project itself. The result of the study: 1) Youth risk behavior problem that related with occupation were time management, games addiction, adaptive behavior, lack of social skills, sex behavior, violence and social participation in community. 2) Participants were able to make a life skills project that served the community need and set development activities to strengthen the community for the adolescents and 3) Community members had jointly learned, acquired skills and gained working experience in developing the life skills program for concrete activities that obviously developed the locality and the readiness and would exchange the lessons learn together. Accordingly, role of occupational therapist in mental health community is facilitator for collaboration to adolescents who are the main force in the future and participants that contribute awareness of their own resources by planning, action, monitoring and evaluation.
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