Role Emerging Occupational Therapy Maximising Occupation-Focused Practice

Role Emerging Occupational Therapy: Maximising Occupation Focused Practice is written for an audience of occupational therapy practitioners, educators and students. This text offers an exploration of emerging innovative directions for the profession of occupational therapy with a focus upon the theory and application of role emerging placements The book affords the reader an opportunity to explore how occupation focused practice can be applied to a wide variety of settings and circumstances in order to improve the health and well-being of a diverse range of people. Chapters cover relevant theory as well as offering practical guidance with examples drawn from the experiences of university educators, occupational therapists, setting/service providers and students. The book describes, explores and discusses both the potential and ramifications of role emerging practice on the occupational therapy profession and offers a vision for the future of the profession that reflects current occupational, social and health needs.

Miranda Thew is a senior Lecturer in Occupational Science and Occupational therapy at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK. Mary Edwards is Associate Clinical Professor at the School of Rehabilitation Science at McMaster University, Ontario, Canada. Susan Baptiste is Professor at the School of Rehabilitation Science, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Matthew Molineux is Associate Professor at the School of Occupational Therapy and Social Work at Curtin University, Perth, Australia.