The Consolation House like occupation

The works followed in each of the parts of the Consolation House, the people that were resorting to the claim of the recuperation of his disease accomplished the tasks dialled by George E. Barton.

The activities followed the following criteria:

• The selection of these activities for complexity: The patients that were progressing in their one classified the activities themselves in three degrees they increased, in the event of no progression to the immediately director he would go down to the low grade ( Hall, H.

1919).

• The beginnings of the treatment included: Personal control, re- socialization, harmonious environment, adequate nutrition and a useful Occupation and personnel.

• The schedules prefixed themselves with the people that were attending, separated in little periods of work with sabbatical others. These last they died off in number in terms of tolerance to the effort.

• He utilized the Dr's recommendations. Dunton ( 1919 ) to make the clarity in intervention easy and to avoid errors in derivations to the Consolation House:

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a. Any activity that the patient be comfortable with has to aim at the cure.

b. Any activity must be interesting.

c. Any activity has a useful purpose although only he be for achieving the attention and the patient's interest.

d. Any activity must lead to an increase in knowledge and the patient's partition.

e. The curative activity must go on with others itself, for example in a group.

f. The Occupational Therapist must do a careful study of the patient to know his needs and to procure to resolve as much as possible SFA the quotidian activity.

g. The Occupational Therapist must stop to the patient in his work before attaining one point of fatigue.

h. The stimulus must be given provided that he be indicated.

i. He will prefer the work on idleness, even though the final product of the work of the patient be of bad quality or useless.

With these measured Barton he was getting that the Consolation House work . Contacts with someone else that also they utilized this method they were more and more frequent and in all of them the common denominator was the Occupation. The realized readings offered him a longitudinal vision of recuperation by means of the occupation that he got inspired on for the Consolatión House's development, extracted of texts principally of:

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- Philippe Pinel⁴⁹ (Medical boss of the hospital of the Salpetriere⁵⁰, Paris) en“Nosographie philosophique o Méthode appliquée à la médecine” .

- Samuel Tuke (fundador del Quakers⁵¹ York Retreat⁵²) de “Description of the Retreat near York” .

- William Charles Ellis⁵³ (Doctor of asylums Quakers de York) de “Some Mental Health premises”.

- Herbert J. Hall⁵⁴ (Doctor of the Mansion Deveraux, Massachusetts) de “The work of our hands: A study of occupation for invalids”

49 He upheld the madmen's moral treatment, turning to with therapeutic intentions the part of the reason that she be disturbed ( Pussin was a charitable and benevolent person stop with sick persons, of energetic will and an excellent observer, characteristics everything that were concurring also in Pinel.) Medical boss of the hospital of the Salpetriere to him was named in 1795.Follower of Jean Baptiste Pussi's ideological current.

50 Salpetriere hospital tri the re is a hospital in Paris.Originally a powder mill went, but the convert went to hospice for the poor of Paris. He was useful for prostitutes and place of seclusion eventually like a prison for the mental patient, insane, epileptic criminal.He was convert at hospital and predecessor of the Treatment Moral.

51 This society ( acquaintances commonly like Quakers ) is a religious Christian community that began in England in the 1700 and he went away expanding principally for USA. He got organized about people that she was displeased with denominations and existent sects of Christianity. Quakers's number is relatively little ( approximately 350,000 all over the world ), although there are places, such like Pennsylvania, Newberg, Oregon, Greenleaf, Idaho, Richmond, Indiana, Birmingham, North Carolina and he influences Massachusset which the principal concentrates himself in of the Quaker.

52 Samuel Tuke ( 1784-1857 ), he was born in York, England. He developed his father's inheritance in improving the health of people at the hospital York Retrat. This hospital is an institution in England that it provides the help and the treatment for the individuals that experience mental disease. Open in 1796, he is famous to develop the Treatment Moral. This institution's functioning became a model for many sanitariums. Founded for Guillermo Tuke, he was developed originally for and for Quakers but he got to open up to gradually the society of the epoch. Located in Lamel's hill in York, it works like a charity organization.

53 Sir William Charles Ellis and wife took care of in 1900 the asylums of York's county. They managed to encourage the men and to the women to that they enhance his previous commerces or establish new to back up a useful activity. Also they demonstrated that they were not the mental patient dangerous with tools, and they were less dangerous if were offered an occupation. The responsible to develop the idea of the houses of care went besides, very similar to the therapeutic present-day communities. They developed the Treatment Moral extending his work to USA'S part.

54 The Dr. Herbert J. Hall began to develop a training program and treatment for women young people of very small works of a ceramics at his sanitarium of Devereaux's mansion, Massachusetts in 1904. Initially foreseen like physical therapy to recover patients of tuberculosis. The Dr. The hall began to prescribe the occupation for his patients like medicine to regulate life and for to direct interest. He called this the cure for work. The result was the Ceramics of Marblehead that betrayed Sr A. Baggs, with six people's total working in her, factory placed in Marblehead, Massachusetts.

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To these authors it is necessary to also add the works of Eleanor Clarke Slage (Social Worker of the Hull House of Chicago) and Adolph Meyer, (doctor of the Henry Phipps Clinic and Johns Hopkins Hospital), co-workers of the Dr. Dunton in the Henry Phipps Clinic and Johns Hopkins Hospital. The biggest

professional contact was maintained with the Eleanor Clarke Slage

Dr. Dunton, begining in the year 1914 and that it took them to a great intensity of correspondence. The first 10 months of contact Barton and Dunton wrote weekly (the letters written between Dunton and Barton are collected in the Maryland Psyquiatric Quarterly Magazine).

Adolph Meyer

The same idea united them: to name the specialization process to which was arriving, to name to the discipline that was arising and to sum up their work and objectives. The scientific production of the Dr. Dunton grew to enlarged steps, his contents offered the recovery experiences of patient in its hospital, thanks to the occupation.

It had ended up demonstrating that a person was able to recover her muscular mass much before by means of activities that he liked, which implied a gratifying physical activity and with sense for him, which with a personal routine and unconscious activity that also sought the same objective.

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Adolph Meyer

The Philosophy of Occupational Therapy.

But also, this pleasant activity for the person also increased the levels of personal satisfaction. Dunton was the first person that names the term:

"significant activity”⁵⁵ . He is, with more than 120 books and articles about therapy and occupational rehabilitation, the first one who used the expression Therapy of the Occupations used by Dunton to differentiate the amusements without objective, of the occupations prescribed with therapeutic value and to refer to the professional activity that used the occupation like treatment form.

Of this meaning Barton took the term used by Dunton but with a small shade, he only used the adjectival part: occupational therapy.

We can say that Dunton supposed for Barton the perfect link. From him he articulated their idea of Occupational Therapy. Dunton was a source of knowledge, recognized among the personnel that worked with the Occupation and Barton knew how to arrive to him.

Barton’s labour extended quickly, the doctors of Clifton Springs, surprised by the improvement of health of Barton and for that of the rest of people that attended the Consolation House, began to send people that could benefit of this work.

55 Group of operations or tasks that a person makes. They depend on the process of getting the culture and they set up the way of linking with society and the culture in which lives. He is characterized by being inherently motivated for the person who makes it, depending on the story of learning. They are activities to which the human being links more deeply without wanting or wanting nothing in return. Moruno, P 2003. The first definition that Dunton made of significant activity was based on the following model: “ give them activity and they will improve his health, let them make, create, plan, give them opportunities”

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The results in the recovery were optimum and soon one could see how the news about this house and their work extended for all the USA, Canada and part of Europe. Even the Baroness Van Schelle, president of the committee of reconstruction of the Belgian government's educational system the

Philippe Pinel

Professor Jules Amar⁵⁶ made an offer to Barton in the year 1917 to lead the school of Occupational Therapy of Papenvoort in Ambers. Barton showed a great illusion for this offer but he underrated the proposal when thinking that the work begun in the Consolation House had not concluded, moreover his poor state of health also influenced in this decision. But from 1917 to 1919 Barton contributed with the supervision of the teaching programs that were offered in Papenvoort and that they were in two people's hands of his most absolute trust.

Thanks to this expansion and their achievements, we can mention the first medical derivations to a professional of the Occupation (to an Occupational Therapist, like Barton used to name). He didn't incorporate a patient to his recovery program without having a medical petition that included a diagnostic and an orientation in the treatment. They were more and more, people who were interested to attend the Consolation House and, by this way, to be able to

56 Jules Amar (1914) at the beginning of this century he establishes the bases of the ergonomics of the physical work studying the different types of dynamics and static muscular contraction. He is interested in the problems of the fatigue, the effects of the environment, temperature, noise and illumination. Jules Amar at the beginning of century in France founds the first investigation laboratory on the professional work "National Conservatory of Arts and Measures". He is one of the founders of the Ergonomics science.

And key piece in the introduction of the Occupational Therapy in Belgium, Portugal and Italy. He was named in 1917 War Secretary of the USA, with the mission of preparing people for the re-education of the soldiers coming from the war. Barton and Jules Amar met each other in 1918 in the Consolation House and the collaboration began among them.

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be formed in the techniques of the Occupation. Barton offered weekly courses of formation in the Consolation House: "All his people that arrives from so many geographical and so dispersed points, make us believe that our effort is worthwhile", Barton used to say when seeing his house full of people.

The selected occupation should be to regulate, graduate, to be inside the estimated interests and of each patient's capacity.

In definitive, to talk about the Consolation House, is to talk about illusion, of gotten achievements, of suffering, of hopes, of non fulfilled ambitions, but, mainly it is to talk about Barton. The history is written by people and their facts.

These remain in the memory and they are, without doubt, the best in the legacies which has never been able to imagine. The memory of their achievements along the time, maintains them alive; preserving them of the forgetfulness.

For Kirstin Shockency to live in this house is to feel as if the past was in its walls, in its stays, in its windows, in those same windows that one day reflected the face of a person that fought to get their goal. The Consolation House wouldn't die, although its work concluded on Friday, the 29^th of April of 1923, with the death of Barton (to the 49 year-old age). It was as if the time stopped in this stay. The essence remains intact, nobody modified it and just as he was born he died. The Consolation House will always conserve impregnated the truth on the legacy of Barton. Many people will be able to pass across it, but it keeps zealously the better kept secret, the sense of the Occupation.

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Kirstin Shockency doesn't plan to sell this house, "it will be always my house, my memory, is pleasant for me to know that here they passed many of the more grateful experiences of life of the years from 1914 to 1923 in Clifton Springs."

At the present time the Consolation House remains almost with the same physics structure with which Barton let it. The memory of his stayed here is in several badges that figure in its exterior. The day 15^th of March of 1967, in memory of the 50 anniversary of the founders and in presence of Isabel G.

Newton, wife of Barton and of their son George Gadwin Barton, the American Association of Occupational Therapy (AOTA) in an act taken place in Clifton Springs, they inaugurated a badge in honour to the founders. Miss Cromwell president of the AOTA in 1967, highlighted the sense of this badge like: "a memory to recognize and to honour people who preceded us, to their vision and thought, to their value and hope and mainly to their energy and creativity."

This badge has as purpose that the time doesn't erase the memories of a life full with illusion and hope. It is the best form of appreciating the legacy left by Barton.

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Foto placa homenaje de la AOTA 1967 Por cortesía de Kristin Mahoney

Badge´s Leyend:

In this place, the American Association of Occupational Therapy was founded the 15^th of March of 1917 by the owner

of the Consolation House George E.

Barton, first president of the Association and William Rush Dunton JRMD, Eleanor

Clarke Slage, Susan Cox Jonson, Thomas Bevel Kidner and Isabel Gladwin

Newton.

Dedicated by the AOTA in March of 1968 in the date of the 50 anniversary

Another of the badges that can be located on the Consolation House in Clifton Springs, indicates us the situation of the house in the Broad Street 16. The memory remains alive when locating this historical place. We can say that with these badges they are joined past, present and future, contributing this way to maintain the legacy of Barton. And although the Consolation House suffered some change, included those of property, its firmness and value remain with the step of the time.

It is the fifth house to the right if you advance from North to South for Broad Street, still preserves the Victorian style that impregnated Barton and the old porch where they spent long moments.

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To imagine the Consolation House in active is encouraging. Between 1914 and 1918, the informative current on the Occupation and the different state meetings to establish bases on his occupational therapy, they supposed that Dunton incited Barton to promote the foundation of the

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association of promotion of the Occupational Therapy: It is the birth of the NSPOT.

3. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THE