History of Training in Occupational Therapy in Guatemala
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https://doi.org/10.57247/rgp.v2i1.131Keywords:
Occupational Therapy, Training, Curriculum of studies, historyAbstract
Guatemala is a developing country, with special characteristics in terms of its population, being multicultural, multiethnic and plurilingual, where health care becomes difficult due to the same cultural, political and sociodemographic characteristics and the scope of rehabilitation. aimed at people with disabilities has been the concern of several professionals. In this article, the history of occupational therapy was reviewed, in terms of care and career development, consultations were made in the archives of the first school and universities that trained this human resource, information on the opening of the first rehabilitation care centers with an Occupational Therapy department, in addition, how new fields have been delved into in the training of human resources in Occupational Therapy, the basis for the curricular transformation of the career.
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