Occupational & Industrial Medicine, Psychopathology - General & Miscellaneous, Occupational Therapy, Psychotherapy
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Overview
This textbook provides a unique approach for learning about challengin g issues and situations that arise in everyday occupational therapy pr actice. The stories in the text describe therapeutic interactions amon g clients, therapists, family members, and other professionals within an environment created by the helping community. Emphasis is placed on the psychosocial components of each story, and each illustrates how a familiar occupational therapy intervention model is individualized in real practice.Editorials
From The Critics
Reviewer: Gary Kielhofner, DrPh, OTR(Univ of Illinois at Chicago Coll of Associated Health Professions)Description: This text presents a compilation of stories from the clinical practice of occupational therapy.
Purpose: The thrust of the book is to illustrate and teach narrative reasoning in clinical practice.
Audience: The book is intended primarily for occupational therapy students.
Features: The book includes a number of interesting case stories that illustrate different aspects of practice. The authors attempt to show through these stories how theory is used in practice. This aspect of the text, though laudable, is its weakest point. That is, the relationship of theoretical reasoning and narrative reasoning is not really established and, therefore, readers could be left a bit confused. Narratives are often viewed as instructive in themselves (i.e., carrying their own morals). Connecting them to theory use is tricky business, and this text gives too light a treatment to a very complex issue.
Assessment: The stories in this book will serve as useful materials to introduce students to some of the everyday nature of occupational therapy practice, including some of the dilemmas and challenges. Its use is probably limited to the earliest introductory courses, and this seems consistent with the authors' intentions.
From The Critics
Reviewer: Gary Kielhofner, DrPh, OTR(Univ of Illinois at Chicago Coll of Associated Health Professions)Description: This text presents a compilation of stories from the clinical practice of occupational therapy.
Purpose: The thrust of the book is to illustrate and teach narrative reasoning in clinical practice.
Audience: The book is intended primarily for occupational therapy students.
Features: The book includes a number of interesting case stories that illustrate different aspects of practice. The authors attempt to show through these stories how theory is used in practice. This aspect of the text, though laudable, is its weakest point. That is, the relationship of theoretical reasoning and narrative reasoning is not really established and, therefore, readers could be left a bit confused. Narratives are often viewed as instructive in themselves (i.e., carrying their own morals). Connecting them to theory use is tricky business, and this text gives too light a treatment to a very complex issue.
Assessment: The stories in this book will serve as useful materials to introduce students to some of the everyday nature of occupational therapy practice, including some of the dilemmas and challenges. Its use is probably limited to the earliest introductory courses, and this seems consistent with the authors' intentions.
Book Details
Published
July 31, 1997
Publisher
SLACK Incorporated
Pages
161
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9781556423130