Occupational Therapy and Life Course Development (eBook)

A Work Book for Professional Practice

Ruth Wright, Léonie Sugarman (Autoren)

eBook Download: PDF

2009
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-0-470-51794-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Occupational Therapy and Life Course Development is an invaluable work book for professional practice. It provides a tool to help both students and qualified professionals develop and enhance a framework for their practice that supports all individuals and settings in a holistic and inclusive way.

Much of the book is organised as a work book based around a single case study.  It includes theory related to life span development and managing change, and also exercises for readers to complete in order to apply the theory to practice.

Chapters span such key topics as the client in context; life events; transition and loss; the management of stress; and planful decision making.

The book emphasises how issues of life course development are as relevant to health and social care professionals as they are to their clients.  A number of exercises invite readers to reflect on their own life course, and there chapters both on becoming and belonging as an occupational therapist, and on developing professional practice.

Ruth Wright is at the Occupational Therapy Department, St Martin's College, Lancaster.

Leonie Sugarman is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist and is Senior Lecturer in?the Department of Applied Social Sciences, St Martin's College, Lancaster.

Inhalt

Occupational Therapy and Life Course Development: A Work Book for Professional Practice 1
Contents 7
Preface 9
0: Read Me: It All Starts Here 11
The experiential learning cycle and personal learning styles 12
The case study and its characters 16
Case Study 16
Case Study Characters 17
Family tree 21
1: The Life Course as an Organizing Framework 23
Roles across the life course 25
Current roles: a snapshot of the ‘now’ 30
Stages and developmental tasks across the life course 32
A quick recap 41
Ecological niche 42
Generic developmental tasks 45
The person of the therapist 46
2: The Client in Context 47
Life space mapping 48
Stability zones: anchors in the personal life space 53
The personal life space in a life course context 56
Change in the personal life space 58
Continuity in the personal life space 60
3: Life Events 64
Coping with life events: the ‘4-S’ model 66
4: Transition and Loss 81
Life events as processes: the dynamics of personal transitions 83
The experience of loss 91
Post-traumatic growth 92
Loss in a life course context 96
5: Stress and its Management 99
Defining ‘stress’ 102
Multimodal-transactional model of stress 107
Managing stress 110
Interventions 113
Coping across the life course 115
6: Planful Decision-making 118
Problem management and opportunity development 120
Decision-making in a life course context 135
7: Telling Tales 137
Narrative characteristics 138
The function of narrative 141
Narrative forms 145
Narratives of distress 147
Story styles 149
The use of metaphor 152
Conclusion 153
8: Becoming and Belonging as an Occupational Therapist 155
Career Story: Harjit 156
Becoming and belonging 158
Career Story: Jeanette 164
9: Developing Professional Practice 170
Career Story: Ian 170
Reflective practice 176
Supervision 177
The therapeutic use of self 180
The therapeutic self 182
Key Terms and Concepts 187
References 200
Index 210

Rezensionen

"I would recommend this book to occupational therapists at any
stage of their career and life course. It applies a constructive
framework that affirms beliefs and philosophy which have been long
held and applied in occupational therapy practice and brings
something new to our practice and professional development."
(British Journal of Occupational Thearpy, 1 November 2011)

"All health and social care professionals with a client-centred
focus will be able to draw valuable perspectives from this
book."(International Journal of Therapy and
Rehabilitation , October 2009)

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.2.2009
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Naturheilkunde
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Physiotherapie / Ergotherapie ► Ergotherapie
• Schlagworte: Client • ConText • Course • Development • Ergotherapie • Framework • Gesundheits- u. Sozialwesen • Health & Social Care • Human • Life • lifelong • multifaceted • Occupational • occupational therapy • Organizing • Process • Professional Practice • self • Several • starts • Stress • Subject • theory • Therapeutic • therapeutic self • use • Way
• ISBN-10: 0-470-51794-8 / 0470517948
• ISBN-13: 978-0-470-51794-9 / 9780470517949