ABSTRACT
The College of Occupational Therapists has expressed a wish to the Health Professions Council that the term activity used in combination with the word therapy or therapist be legally protected for the practice of the occupational therapy profession. The responsibility for developing an apprenticeship model of training in a care setting would ultimately have to devolve upon the specialist. Providing that the specialist is sufficiently well-trained and experienced, there is no reason why this should not work. There would be two particular spin-offs from this for the care setting. If therapeutic efficacy is dependent upon relationship, our methods of education and training need to reflect that fact. For the pivotal issue of the new culture is that activity is delivered as therapy, not as entertainment; that is, that activity is specifically intended and used to make people better.
