ISBN: 0470517948 9780470517949

Category: Medical / Allied Health Services / Occupational Therapy

Page count: 216

<i>Occupational Therapy and Life Course Development</i> is an invaluable work book for professional practice. It provides a tool to help both students and qualified professionals develop and enhance a framework for their practice that supports all individuals and settings in a holistic and inclusive way. <p>Much of the book is organised as a work book based around a single case study. It includes theory related to life span development and managing change, and also exercises for readers to complete in order to apply the theory to practice.</p> <p>Chapters span such key topics as the client in context; life events; transition and loss; the management of stress; and planful decision making.</p> <p>The book emphasises how issues of life course development are as relevant to health and social care professionals as they are to their clients. A number of exercises invite readers to reflect on their own life course, and there chapters both on becoming and belonging as an occupational therapist, and on developing professional practice.</p>