Confessions of an Occupational Therapist Who Became a Detective
| Autor: | Elizabeth J Yerxa |
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| Rok vydání: | 2000 |
| Předmět: |
030506 rehabilitation
business.industry Technician Adaptive response Public relations Skill development Clinical Practice 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Resource (project management) Occupational Therapy Sets goals Order (exchange) 030212 general & internal medicine Life history 0305 other medical science Psychology business Social psychology |
| Zdroj: | British Journal of Occupational Therapy. 63:192-199 |
| ISSN: | 1477-6006 0308-0226 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/030802260006300502 |
| Popis: | This life history of an occupational therapist traces her evolution from a biomedical technician to a ‘detective’, who searches for new ideas that will support clinical practice and enable the profession to achieve its potential contribution to humankind. These ideas focus on ‘homo occupacio’, the occupational human: an agent who sets goals, makes choices and becomes competent through engagement in occupation. Concepts such as motivation, self-organisation, skill development, resource reclamation, brain evolution, repertoires of daily routines, environmental management and defining health as the capacity to achieve one's valued goals illuminate occupation. The contexts in which people carry out their rounds of occupation also require study in order for occupational therapists to pose a ‘just right’ level of environmental challenge, enabling people to make an adaptive response in user-friendly environments. Recommended sources for new ideas are, first, self-reports of people who live with impairments and, second, literature from non-medical disciplines that share occupational therapy's holistic, integrated and optimistic view of people. The writings of people who live with chronic conditions reveal that they are not being served well by the current biomedical system. In contrast, scholarly detective work could foster occupational therapy that enhances satisfaction in daily living, influences health, reclaims resources and enables equality of capability for myriads of the world's populations. A keynote address, given on 8 September 1999 at the Inaugural United Kingdom Occupational Science Symposium, held at the College of Ripon and York St John, York. |
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