Occupational Retirement-Type Residential Care for People with Mental Retardation Cover Image

Трудотерапия в социалните услуги резидентен тип за хора с умствена изостаналост
Occupational Retirement-Type Residential Care for People with Mental Retardation

Author(s): Yanka Pavlova
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Economy, Sociology, Family and social welfare, Economic development, Socio-Economic Research
Published by: Великотърновски университет „Св. св. Кирил и Методий”
Keywords: Occupational Therapy; Social Services; Mental Retardation; Oligophrenia.

Summary/Abstract: The occupational therapy is major activity provided in social services for accommodation type. The purpose of the present article is to review and mark the problem fields of occupational activity, offered in services for adult people with mental retardation in Bulgaria. Examine are major conception and concrete practices, applied in social services for adult people with mental retardation, also and personal experience of the author. Occupational therapy has good base in Bulgaria, theoretically and practically. There aremoments thatneed to be improving by law or by building new conception, supporting social entrepreneurship, after passage of relevant law.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 173-179
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Bulgarian