The use of films as a treatment tool in occupational therapy.

This paper has been made in order to obtain the professional qualification sukrensi.com of Occupational Therapist, an examination of prequalification required by Universidad de Chile.Its aim is to justify the use of movies as a tool for intervention, providing an explicit usefulness in Occupational Therapy (OT from now on), to be settled into a proposed application.The paper addresses the relationship between cinema and the discipline, its rationale from Occupational Science, and also proposes the idea of using movies in the intervention not only from its projection here but since its inception; reflects on pending contributions from occupational therapists in their development, and reasons about the utility of the wealth of cinematographic resource in professional intervention.