Mental Health and Agriculture: The OT Perspective and PracticeOT Stress

Farmers face unique stressors and elevated mental-health risk. This session defines the occupational therapist’s role, identifies agricultural stressors and red flags, and demonstrates brief screens (PHQ-9, GAD-7, AUDIT-C) with functional measures (COPM/PSFS). Using a case, presenters give farm-ready interventions that pair person-level strategies (routines, sleep/pain) with environmental/workflow changes and outline an OT/AgrAbility collaboration pathway for assessment, referral, and follow-up Presenters: Logan Fields and Erin Bales, Wilmington College