Disparity Between Reimbursement-Driven Practice and Humanistic Values of Occupational Therapy

Disparity between reimbursement-driven practice and humanistic values of occupational therapy.

I n January 1990, clinicians, educators, and researchers met at the Directions for the Future Symposium in San Diego to delineate, discuss, and debate a wide range of economic, political, and social issues that are influencing the evolution of occupational therapy practice and education. By examining these factors in an open and thorough way, therapists believe they will be able to develop proa...

What constitutes core values in occupational therapy practice?

As a group of occupational therapists committed to develoring culturally safe occurational therap)' practice in New Zealand, we wish to express our deer concerns about the American Occupational Therapy Association's ['ecenely published statement of Core Values and AI/iludes CJ( Occuparional Tberapl' Practice (AJOr, 47, December 1993, rJP 1085-1086). While applauding the Association's intene in ...

Agreement between Occupational Therapy Practice Framework classifications and occupational therapists' classifications.

The American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA) developed the Occupational Therapy Practice Framework: Domain and Process (the Framework) to categorize and organize concepts in the field of occupational therapy in a manner that would be understandable to practitioners within the field as well as to external readers. The current study investigates the degree to which occupational therapists...

Occupational Therapy Practice Framework: domain and process.

Standards of Practice for Occupational Therapy.

Occupational therapy services are provided for habilitation, rehabilitation, and the promotion of health and wellness to those who have or are at risk for developing an illness, injury, disease, disorder, condition, impairment, disability, activity limitation, or participation restriction. Occupational therapy addresses the physical, cognitive, psychosocial, sensory–perceptual, and other aspect...