Role Emerging Occupational Therapy: Maximising Occupation-Focused Practice

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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.  Content: Chapter 1 Emerging Occupational Therapy Practice: Building on the Foundations and Seizing the Opportunities (pages 3–14): Matthew Molineux and Sue BaptisteChapter 2 Models of Role Emerging Placements (pages 15–35): Mary Edwards and Miranda ThewChapter 3 Successful Role Emerging Placements: It is all in the Preparation (pages 39–53): Yvonne Thomas and Sylvia RodgerChapter 4 The Student Experience of a Role Emerging Placement (pages 54–65): Philippa Gregory, Lydia Quelch and Elisha WatanabeChapter 5 Promoting Well?Being in a Large Organisation: Challenges and Opportunities (pages 66–82): Miranda ThewChapter 6 An Occupational Perspective of a Disability?Focused Employment Service (pages 83–96): Sally HallChapter 7 Promoting Occupational Therapy in a Community Health Centre (pages 97–110): Barry Trentham and Lynn CockburnChapter 8 Occupational Therapy: Making a Difference to People with Cardiac Failure in the Community (pages 111–122): Emma Brown and Barbara GurneyChapter 9 Community Development (pages 123–134): Deborah WindleyChapter 10 Using Policy and Government Drivers to Create Role Emerging Opportunities (pages 137–148): Lori Letts and Julie RichardsonChapter 11 The Way Forward? (pages 149–155): Sue Baptiste and Matthew Molineux