1st Edition

Theorising Occupational Therapy Practice in Diverse Settings

Edited By Jennifer Creek, Nick Pollard, Michael Allen Copyright 2023
222 Pages
by Routledge

222 Pages
by Routledge

222 Pages
by Routledge

Practice theory provides a way of understanding everyday life, but until now its application in occupational therapy has not been much developed. Theorising Occupational Therapy Practice in Diverse Settings draws on practice theory to explore the conditions for occupational therapy practice in a variety of clinical and non-traditional settings. With examples from around the globe, the... Read more

Chapter 1- History and development of theory for occupational therapy practice

Jennifer Creek and Michael Allen

Chapter 2- Managerialism and health services

Jennifer Creek

Chapter 3- Space-time, temporality and professional roles

Kate Sherry, Jennifer Creek and Michael Allen

Chapter 4- Space-time, place and working contexts

Kate Sherry and Anri-Louise Oosthuizen

Chapter 5- The current position of occupational therapy theory and practice

Nick Pollard

Chapter 6- Access

Elly Badcock, Elise Bromann Bukhave and Jennifer Creek

Chapter 7- Resources

Temple Moore and Jennifer Creek

Chapter 8- Change in occupational therapy

Anna Carreira De Mello, Tais Quevedo Marcolino and Nick Pollard

Chapter 9- Where we want to be

Nick Pollard and Jennifer Creek

Biography

Jennifer Creek became an occupational therapist in 1970 and has worked in adult mental health, adult learning disabilities, professional education, primary care and mental health promotion. Jennifer has edited and co-edited textbooks and collections of essays on occupational therapy philosophy, theory and professional reasoning.

Nick Pollard is a senior lecturer in occupational therapy who formerly worked in severe and enduring mental health services, having completed training in 1991. He has written and presented extensively on community-based rehabilitation and critical explorations of occupational therapy.

Michael Allen is a sociologist and researcher specialising in social practice theory. He studied at the University of Hull and the University of Leeds before moving to the DEMAND Centre at Lancaster University in 2014, to take up a PhD studentship focusing on the energy demand of leisure activities.