I'll go back to your question about people who are in these settings who have mental health issues. You were talking about triggers. As occupational therapists, we can help these people recognize what their trigger points are to help them know the signs, and then get them to express their emotions in a socially acceptable manner. That's one of the coping skills that we can give to people: helping them learn to say “I'm upset“ when they are upset, rather than take a punch at somebody.
Those are the types of things in day-to-day life that we can work on, having a routine and a sense of purpose and meaning through occupations. These people usually don't have skills. I'm talking about job-readiness skills. We can help them with that. Then we can help them look at having a meaningful occupation. We can work toward that, helping them build some of the coping strategies that they need to deal with the everyday stressors that they are going to be facing.