Terapia Ocupacional no Contexto Escolar: conhecimentos de profissionais inseridos nas escolas públicas

Abstract

his work is a field study, exploratory and descriptive, with a transversal temporal cut, proposing to know what education professionals in public schools in the city of João Pessoa-PB understand about Occupational Therapy in the school context. Participated professionals from two public institutions of regular education who performed different functions at schools.Wasapplied a structured questionnaire containing information about the occupational therapist's performance in the school environment, with a quantitative analysis of the material collected. The results indicated that the majority of participants don’t knowtheOccupational Therapy in general, and not just its performance within schools. In addition, these professionals highlighted this lack of knowledge as a possible factor for the low insertion of occupational therapists in these environments. These results thus indicate the need for greater dissemination of this profession within schools, possibly contributing to a greater presence of these professionals in the school context.