1st Edition

Powerful Occupational Therapists A Community of Professionals, 1950-1980

By Christine Peters Copyright 2013
232 Pages
by Routledge

226 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

Powerful Occupational Therapists examines the life and times of a small group of occupational therapy leaders and scholars in a post-1950s America, to market their profession as one of increasing importance. Participating in the 1950s rehabilitation, the 1960s equal rights, and the 1970s women’s movements, these innovators, being primarily women, aimed to define themselves as having... Read more

Foreword

I. Changing in Response to Science

II. The Study

III. Community of Therapists

IV. Community Groupings and Portraits

V. Political Movers and Sustainers

VI. The Dilemma of Philosophy and Science

VII. Professionalizing: Occupational Therapy and Social Movements

VIII. Occupational Therapy’s Past Influences Its Present, and Conclusion

Acknowledgements

Biography

Christine Olga Peters is recognized for advancing occupational therapy history. She has presented occupational therapy history internationally and at the United Nations. She received the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA) and American Occupational Therapy Foundation (AOTF) Leadership Fellowship and the AOTF Certificate of Appreciation. She is also a Fellow of AOTA.