Role Emerging Occupational Therapy: Maximising Occupation-Focused Practice

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 168
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Role Emerging Occupational Therapy: Maximising Occupation Focused Practice is written for an audience of occupational therapy practitioners, educators and students.

This text offers an exploration of emerging innovative directions for the profession of occupational therapy with a focus upon the theory and application of role emerging placements.

The book affords the reader an opportunity to explore how occupation focused practice can be applied to a wide variety of settings and circumstances in order to improve the health and well-being of a diverse range of people. Chapters cover relevant theory as well as offering practical guidance with examples drawn from the experiences of university educators, occupational therapists, setting/service providers and students.

The book describes, explores and discusses both the potential and ramifications of role emerging practice on the occupational therapy profession and offers a vision for the future of the profession that reflects current occupational, social and health needs.

 Content:
Chapter 1 Emerging Occupational Therapy Practice: Building on the Foundations and Seizing the Opportunities (pages 3–14): Matthew Molineux and Sue Baptiste
Chapter 2 Models of Role Emerging Placements (pages 15–35): Mary Edwards and Miranda Thew
Chapter 3 Successful Role Emerging Placements: It is all in the Preparation (pages 39–53): Yvonne Thomas and Sylvia Rodger
Chapter 4 The Student Experience of a Role Emerging Placement (pages 54–65): Philippa Gregory, Lydia Quelch and Elisha Watanabe
Chapter 5 Promoting Well?Being in a Large Organisation: Challenges and Opportunities (pages 66–82): Miranda Thew
Chapter 6 An Occupational Perspective of a Disability?Focused Employment Service (pages 83–96): Sally Hall
Chapter 7 Promoting Occupational Therapy in a Community Health Centre (pages 97–110): Barry Trentham and Lynn Cockburn
Chapter 8 Occupational Therapy: Making a Difference to People with Cardiac Failure in the Community (pages 111–122): Emma Brown and Barbara Gurney
Chapter 9 Community Development (pages 123–134): Deborah Windley
Chapter 10 Using Policy and Government Drivers to Create Role Emerging Opportunities (pages 137–148): Lori Letts and Julie Richardson
Chapter 11 The Way Forward? (pages 149–155): Sue Baptiste and Matthew Molineux