Adjunctive therapy is very common in the treatment of mental illness. Eye glasses may be adjunct with eye exercises to improve sight problems. Radiation treatment may be adjunct with surgery for cancer patients. Occupational therapy is often used in combination with other types of adjunctive therapies. People who have been injured may have some form of physical therapy as adjunct to the care received by physicians. Occupational therapy may be adjunct to primary medical care.
The program was established by Executive Order 10924, issued by President John F. Kennedy on March 1, 1961, announced by televised broadcast March 2, 1961, and authorized by Congress on September 21, 1961, with passage of the Peace Corps Act (Pub.L. 87â293). The act declares the program's purpose as follows:
John F. Kennedy had not been in office an hour when he did something no other president had ever done: he asked Americans, in peacetime, to volunteer to serve their country for purely idealistic reasons. To this end, he immediately set out to create the Peace Corps.It called upon young Americans to fan out across the globe to live alongside the people of the Third World and bring them, without regard to ideology or propaganda, vitally needed skills in health care, agriculture and education.he exam, as the President well understood, was the first of the daunting challenges facing members of the Peace Corps: Less than two weeks later, the results were in: of the 3,540 tested, 27 Americans were chosen to start training for a world-wide assault on poverty, illiteracy and disease.