Wright / Sugarman Occupational Therapy and Life Course Development

A Work Book for Professional Practice
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-470-51794-9
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 214 Seiten, E-Book

Occupational Therapy and Life Course Development is aninvaluable work book for professional practice. It provides a toolto help both students and qualified professionals develop andenhance a framework for their practice that supports allindividuals and settings in a holistic and inclusive way.
Much of the book is organised as a work book based around asingle case study. It includes theory related to life spandevelopment and managing change, and also exercises for readers tocomplete in order to apply the theory to practice.
Chapters span such key topics as the client in context; lifeevents; transition and loss; the management of stress; and planfuldecision making.
The book emphasises how issues of life course development are asrelevant to health and social care professionals as they are totheir clients. A number of exercises invite readers toreflect on their own life course, and there chapters both onbecoming and belonging as an occupational therapist, and ondeveloping professional practice.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wright, Ruth

Sugarman, Léonie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Learning Tasks.
Boxes.
Figures.
Tables.
Preface.
Chapter 0: Read Me: It All Starts Here.
Chapter 1: The Life Course as an Organizing Framework.
Chapter 2: The Client in Context.
Chapter 3: Life Events.
Chapter 4: Transition and Loss.
Chapter 5: Stress and its Management.
Chapter 6: Planful Decision Making.
Chapter 7: Telling tales.
Chapter 8: Becoming and belonging as an occupationaltherapist.
Chapter 9: Developing professional practice.
Reflective practice.
Supervision.
The therapeutic use of self.
The therapeutic self.
Key Terms and Concepts.
References.