Discovery Through Activity Ideas and Resources for Applying Recovery Through Activity in Practice

Contributors

Foreword - Philip Allen

Preface - Sue Parkinson

Acknowledgements

Introduction - Sue Parkinson

Part one: Adopting Recovery Through Activity across services

Chapters

1. Adopting Recovery Through Activity across adult community and inpatient mental health services – Amy Mitchell
2. Embedding Recovery Through Activity service-wide – Amy Mitchell and Sarah Morecroft

Part two: Applying Recovery Through Activity in a variety of settings

Chapters

3. Applying Recovery Through Activity in community and inpatient services for older adults – Gemma Perrin and Hannah Hazelwood
4. Continuing Recovery Through Activity opportunities for older adults in a peer support group – Joan Holland and Alison Butters
5. Applying Recovery Through Activity in an inpatient Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) -- Carly Watson, Isla Garrick and Hazel Watkiss
6. Applying Recovery Through Activity in a prison service – Xenia Denson and Charlotte Wise
7. Applying Recovery Through Activity in a secure learning disability service – Deborah Haworth
8. Applying Recovery Through Activity in a neuropsychiatry service –Kimberley Connell, Nataliya Williams and Jess Powell

Part three: Adapting Recovery Through Activity for virtual delivery

Chapters

9. Adapting Recovery Through Activity for one-to-one sessions – Rachael Kirtley and Ashley Lister
10. Adapting Recovery Through Activity for virtual groups and one-to-one sessions – Gemma Dorer and Sarah Long
11. Adapting Recovery Through Activity for a virtual group using PowerPoint – Niamh Gibney, Una Belton, Hugh Bulfin, Laura Hackett, Bláithín Swinburne and Lucinda Fallon

Part four: Extending the content of Recovery Through Activity

Sections

1. Leisure Activities
2. Creative Activities
3. Technological Activities
4. Physical Activities
5. Outdoor Activities
6. Faith Activities
7. Self-care Activities
8. Domestic Activities
9. Caring Activities
10. Vocational Activities
11. Social Activities
12. Community Activities

Appendix

Biography

Sue Parkinson is known in the Occupational Therapy profession for her contributions to the Model of Human Occupation (MOHO), most notably in relation to the assessment manual for the Model of Human Occupation Screening Tool (MOHOST), the handbook for the Recovery Through Activity programme and the textbook A Guide to the Formulation of Plans and Goals in Occupational Therapy . The Recovery Through Activity programme was informed by her experiences as a Practice Development Adviser, supporting occupational therapists in mental health settings to consolidate their occupationcentred practice. In more recent years, her work has focused on providing MOHO training, primarily in the United Kingdom and Ireland. In doing so, she has had the satisfaction of making innumerable professional contacts and is delighted to share some of the work that has arisen from her exchanges in Discovery Through Activity.

Discovery Through Activity builds upon its well-received predecessor and is the product of extensive investigation and collaboration. Its success, at least in part, lies in the fact that it draws on the ideas and experiences of a wide range of occupational therapists and healthcare workers, to further demonstrate what can be achieved in practice.

The important and essential, contents of this handbook, and their impeccable delivery, render it to be of immense worth to those who are involved (or are prospectively involved) in the provision and management (and receipt) of occupational therapy. It will also be of great value to other therapists and indeed, their service users. Accordingly, its wide readership is very strongly urged.

Philip Allen, LL.B