Being a feral occupational therapist

The occupational therapist as a political being

In this article we argue for the development of an understanding of human occupation as being inherently political. Occupational therapy is broadly about the experience of ‘doing’ as the basis of social participation. This requires access to the means of participation: space, facilities and resources for different forms of human action, and occupational therapists need to develop an understandi...

The experience of being an occupational therapist with a disability.

OBJECTIVE This study addressed what it is like to practice as an occupational therapist with a disability. METHOD Open-ended interviews using a phenomenological approach were conducted with 10 participants until data saturation was achieved. Each transcripted interview was coded for categories, and the common themes across transcripts were identified. RESULTS These major themes were identif...

The changing role of the occupational therapist.

The purposes of this study were to identify both the role development of the occupational therapist and the factors which have influenced and directed the role changes. It was assumed that these identifications would assist both the profession and educators of occupational therapists to evaluate the trends as to how and why the profession is developing and to plan for appropriate professional a...

Characteristics of 11 occupational therapist alumnae.

The art of being a failure as a therapist.

Too much emphasis has been placed upon how to be successful as a therapist and too little has been written about how to fail. Twelve steps for failing in psychotherapy are described within the proper ideological framework, and it is argued that any therapist can achieve this end with proper training. What has been lacking in the field of therapy is a theory of failure. Many clinicians have mere...