Social Participation in Occupational Contexts In Schools, Clinics, and Communities

Social participation naturally occurs in everyday life in combination with daily occupations, such as when people interact while eating, playing, carpooling, and working. ThroughoutSocial Participation in Occupational Contexts: In Schools, Clinics and Communities, Professors Marilyn B. Cole and Mary V. Donohue explain how social interactions and environments can facilitate occupational performance or can create barriers to participation from an occupational perspective. The beginning chapters of this comprehensive text define the broad range of social skills, competencies, contexts, and cultural norms for social participation in everyday life, offering multiple opportunities for learning and practicing specific skills. Section One also provides an overview of theoretical foundations of social learning, social capital, and the application of social participation in educational learning environments. Section Two reviews social development from childhood to maturity providing a backdrop for a clearer understanding of the interplay of occupation and socialization in interpersonal relationships and natural community groups. Also covered are opportunities for development of social participation in professional education that illustrate theory application in classroom, fieldwork, and community settings for all age groups. Parameters for evaluating social participation situations, contexts, skills, and norms are discussed in Section Three, along with a variety of tools relevant to the assessment of social participation from client and contextual perspectives, including critiques of these evaluation instruments. Lastly, in Section Four, occupational intervention approaches designed to foster social skills and remove barriers will enable practitioners and students to facilitate social participation and development across the lifespan. Features: Occupational focus emphasized through an extension ofInternational Classification of Functioningand theAmerican Occupational Therapy Association Practice Framework Role-playing scenarios in each chapter provide participatory learning techniques Includes thought-provoking questions and learning activities Applies theories from several fields to occupational contexts Provides evaluations and interventions to address social participation issues International sources in the theory and research provide a global perspective of the concept of social participation Faculty members will enjoy an instructorrs"s manual and a PowerPoint presentation in a 14-week semester format Whether yours"re an occupational therapy practitioner, student, health professional, teacher, or community group leader, the knowledge and benefits yours"ll acquire fromSocial Participation in Occupational Contexts: In Schools, Clinics and Communitiesare endless.

Marilyn B. Cole, MS, OTR/L, FAOTA, retired from Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Conn., after 25 years of full-time teaching and became a Professor Emerita of Occupational Therapy in the fall of 2007. Her first book, Group Dynamics in Occupational Therapy, published by SLACK (1993, 1998), is now in its third edition (2005). In 2008, Professor Cole co-authored a second textbook, Applied Theories in Occupational Therapy, with colleague Roseanna Tufano, and has recently contributed a chapter titled “Retirement, Volunteering, and End of Life Issues” to Meriano and Latella’s Occupational Therapy Interventions, (2008, SLACK); a chapter titled “Theories of Aging” to Coppola, Elliott, and Toto’s Strategies to Advance Gerontology Excellence (2008); a chapter on “Client Centered Groups” for Creek and Lougher’s Occupational Therapy and Mental Health, 4th Ed . (2008); and a chapter titled “Occupational Therapy Theory Development and Organization” for Sladyk, Jacobs, and MacRae’s Occupational Therapy Essentials for Clinical Competence (2010, SLACK). Current activities include working on a survey research study on retirement and volunteering with colleague Karen Macdonald, pursuit of fiction writing, and joining co-author Mary Donohue in promoting issues of social participation and occupation at professional conferences. At home in Connecticut or Freeport, Bahamas, Professor Cole and her husband, Martin Schiraldi, enjoy traveling, cruising, skiing, sailing, and scuba diving.    

Mary V. Donohue, PhD, OTL, FAOTA, a retired clinical professor from New York University and currently Clinical Professor at Stony Brook University, Department of Occupational Therapy, specializes in psychosocial mental health. She worked for 13 years at Hillside Psychiatric Hospital, leading activity therapy rehabilitation groups. She is co-editor of the journal, Occupational Therapy in Mental Health, assisting guest editors in publishing books, and has recently contributed a chapter, “Evaluation of Social Participation,” to Sladyk, Jacobs, and MacRae’s text Occupational Therapy Essentials for Clinical Competence (2010, SLACK). Dr. Donohue has developed the Social Profile assessment tool, and her research articles using the Profile can be found on the Web. She is Metro NYD Research Co-Chair and NYSOTA Research Representative, providing grants for occupational therapy research projects, consulting with research applicants, and presenting Research Forums with grant awardees. She serves on the MNYD Mental Health Task Force, helping to plan events for OT’s Walk with NAMI. She also serves on the State Board for Occupational Therapy of the New York State Board of Education for adjudicating licensure issues. Dr. Donohue has served as Commodore of New York Sailing Club, an educational, safety-oriented, and social club, pairing skippers and crew.

 

DedicationAbout the AuthorsForeword by Jennifer Creek, MSc, DipCOT, FETCIntroductionSection I                 social participation from an occupational perspectiveChapter 1                     Social Participation in Everyday Life
                                       Marilyn B. Cole, MS, OTR/L, FAOTAChapter 2                     Theoretical Basis of Social Participation: An Overview
                                       Mary V. Donohue, PhD, OTL, FAOTAChapter 3                     Social Participation Basics
                                       Marilyn B. Cole, MS, OTR/L, FAOTAChapter 4                     Social Capital: A Systems Perspective
                                       Mary V. Donohue, PhD, OTL, FAOTAChapter 5                     Social Participation in Professional Education
                                       Mary V. Donohue, PhD, OTL, FAOTASection II               Theories of Social Participation Across the LifespanChapter 6                     Social Development in Infancy and Childhood
                                       Mary V. Donohue, PhD, OTL, FAOTAChapter 7                     Adolescent Social Development and Participation
                                       Marilyn B. Cole, MS, OTR/L, FAOTAChapter 8                     Adult Social Development: Theories, Roles, and Contexts
                                       Marilyn B. Cole, MS, OTR/L, FAOTAChapter 9                     Social Development in Older Adulthood:
                                       Theories, Transitions, Roles, and Contexts
                                       Marilyn B. Cole, MS, OTR/L, FAOTASection III             Social Participation AssessmentChapter 10                  Social Participation and Disability Research
                                       Mary V. Donohue, PhD, OTL, FAOTAChapter 11                  Social Participation Tools in Activity Settings
                                       Mary V. Donohue, PhD, OTL, FAOTASection IV              Social participation interventionsChapter 12                  Interventions for Children to Develop Social Participation
                                       Roles, Skills, and Networks
                                       Mary V. Donohue, PhD, OTL, FAOTAChapter 13                  Interventions for Adolescents to Develop Social Participation
                                       Roles, Skills, and Networks
                                       Mary V. Donohue, PhD, OTL, FAOTAChapter 14                  Adult Interventions to Promote Social Participation
                                       Marilyn B. Cole, MS, OTR/L, FAOTAChapter 15                  Older Adult Interventions to Facilitate Social Participation
                                       Marilyn B. Cole, MS, OTR/L, FAOTA AppendixIndex