Butler Eagle: Robin’s Home clients get occupational therapy

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by Eddie Trizzino, Eagle Community Editor – May 03, 2025

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Stephen Bergmann, a client of Robin’s Home, speaks about the benefits he got from meeting with occupational therapy students from Slippery Rock University during their penultimate session Friday, April 25, at Robin’s Home. The last session was Friday.
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The occupational therapy profession got its start in 1917, when the United States War Department employed reconstruction aids to help soldiers who were returning home from their World War I deployments to recover from what, at the time, was called shell shock.

For the past 16 weeks, students in Slippery Rock University’s occupational therapy program have worked with clients of Robin’s Home once a week to offer methods to help cope with stress in healthy ways, bringing the story “full-circle.”

One of the clients in the session Friday, April 25, Air Force veteran Stanley Brockman, said that even just learning how to better plan his own leisure time from the students has been constructive.

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