>[!NOTE]+ Meta Author:: Susan Luckman Reference:: https://www.sciencealert.com/modern-life-is-brutal-here-s-why-craft-is-so-good-for-our-health Date:: 2018 Tags:: #warp/article WeftLinks:: [[Health value of craft]] ### Summary Craft can be useful as occupational therapy when recovering from trauma, as happened in World War One ### Quotes > For over a century, arts and craft-based activity have been a [core part of occupational therapy](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28027032) that emerged as a distinct health field around the end of the first world war in response to the needs of returned soldiers. > This includes many suffering from what we now refer to as post-traumatic stress disorder, but then referred to as "shell shock".