职业与职能

职业 means profession or job or occupation.

职能 means functions or role or occupation.

Though occupation can means 职业 or 职能, it doesn't means Occupational Therapy is 职业治疗.
We don't treat jobs or profession, nor are we working like job agencies.

We help to treat people with problems with their functions.

Below is a defination of OT , an abstract from SAOT's Website:

Occupational therapy is a health profession that uses activities with specific goals to help people from all ages prevent, reduce or overcome effects of disabilities. The fundamental purpose of occupational therapy is the development and maintenance of a person's capacity, throughout life, to perform those tasks and roles essential to productive living, including self-care, dailyliving, leisure and work.

This is an abstract form WFOT's website:

Occupational therapy is a profession concerned with promoting health and well being through occupation. The primary goal of occupational therapy is to enable people to participate in the activities of everyday life. Occupational therapists achieve this outcome by enabling people to do things that will enhance their ability to participate or by modifying the environment to better support participation.

Occupational therapists have a broad education that equips them with skills and knowledge to work collaboratively with individuals or groups of people who have an impairment of body structure or function due to a health condition, and who experience barriers to participation. Occupational therapists believe that participation can be supported or restricted by physical, social, attitudinal and legislative environments. Therefore, occupational therapy practice may be directed to changing aspects of the environment to enhance participation.

Occupational therapy is practised in a wide range of settings, including hospitals, health centres, homes, workplaces, schools, reform institutions and housing for seniors. Clients are actively involved in the therapeutic process, and outcomes of occupational therapy are diverse, client-driven and measured in terms of participation or satisfaction derived from participation.

To conclude, we are 职能治疗师. Though it is only different by a word, it makes a huge difference.