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42TX Occupational Therapist

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Overview

An occupational therapist helps patients with disabilities, injuries, or illnesses build or restore abilities through everyday tasks. The therapist addresses mental, physical, developmental, and emotional conditions while helping patients develop and maintain daily living and work skills.

Core Skills

  • Cognitive rehabilitation after traumatic brain injury
  • Activity-based therapy for combat stress
  • Workstation ergonomics and repetitive injury prevention

Civilian Career Paths

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Occupational Therapists

Military experience evaluating functional limitations and designing physical, cognitive, and psychosocial rehabilitation plans directly supports civilian occupational therapy practice.

How to prepare: Compare your existing education, fieldwork, exam history, licenses, and credentials with the intended state's licensing rules and employer requirements to identify any gaps. All states require licensure and a qualifying exam, with an accredited occupational therapy degree that includes fieldwork required for exam eligibility.

What the civilian work involves
  • Test and evaluate patients' physical and mental abilities and analyze medical data to determine realistic rehabilitation goals for patients.
  • Plan, organize, and conduct occupational therapy programs in hospital, institutional, or community settings to help rehabilitate persons with disabilities because of illness, injury or psychological or developmental problems.
  • Evaluate patients' progress and prepare reports that detail progress.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • eClinicalWorks EHR software
  • Casamba Smart

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (3 documents)
  1. DAFOCD, 30 Apr 26: OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST (42TX)

    [1] Specialty Summary section "OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST"; normalized cached text lines 6518-6544; family-level section (42T4, 42T3, 42T1)

    Supports: Cognitive rehabilitation after traumatic brain injury, Activity-based therapy for combat stress, Workstation ergonomics and repetitive injury prevention, Occupational Therapists (O*NET 29-1122.00)

  2. O*NET: Occupational Therapists

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Occupational Therapists (O*NET 29-1122.00)

  3. Bureau of Labor Statistics: occupational therapists

    [3] How to Become One; retrieved 23 September 2026

    Supports: Occupational Therapists (O*NET 29-1122.00)

Defense contractor jobs for 42TX

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