Occupational Therapy for People Experiencing Illness, Injury or Impairment
Promoting Occupational Participation
- 8th Edition - March 4, 2025
- Editors: Michael Curtin, Mary Egan, Yeliz Prior, Tracey Parnell, Roshan Galvaan, Katrine Sauvé-Schenk, Daniel Cezar Da Cruz
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 8 8 2 9 2 - 7
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 8 8 2 9 3 - 4
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Occupational Therapy for People Experiencing Illness, Injury or Impairment: Promoting Occupational Participation, Eighth Edition is a seminal textbook that has been used in preregistration occupational therapy education for more than 40 years.
Now in its eighth edition, it reflects significant developments within the occupational profession and the contexts of the delivery of health and social care when working with people who experience illness, injury or impairment to promote occupational participation. It is highly regarded for its level of detail, its practical approach, and the breadth of its content, with input from multiple authors from around the world.
Fully updated and built around the professional concepts and processes to promote occupational participation this invaluable resource will enable occupational therapists link theory with day-to-day practice, reflect on the knowledge, expertise and attitudes that inform their work and practice in a critically reflexive way.
Now in its eighth edition, it reflects significant developments within the occupational profession and the contexts of the delivery of health and social care when working with people who experience illness, injury or impairment to promote occupational participation. It is highly regarded for its level of detail, its practical approach, and the breadth of its content, with input from multiple authors from around the world.
Fully updated and built around the professional concepts and processes to promote occupational participation this invaluable resource will enable occupational therapists link theory with day-to-day practice, reflect on the knowledge, expertise and attitudes that inform their work and practice in a critically reflexive way.
- Practical text and online assets link theory with day-to-day practice
- Collaborative-relationship-focused, inclusive and strengths-based language
- Summaries and key points for each chapter make navigation easy
- Focus on working with groups, communities and populations in addition to working with individuals, reflecting the evolving and expanding scope of practice
- Practice stories throughout the text, and detailed practice stories in Section 5, inviting the reader to reflect on the information, skills and attitudes that inform practice
- Online multiple choice questions and questions for reflection at the end of each chapter enable readers to assess and apply their knowledge
Pre-registration occupational therapy students and early career occupational therapists
SECTION 1 CONTEMPORARY REFLECTIONS ON OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY
1. Decoloniality in occupational therapy practice: preparation and readiness
2. Critical perspectives in occupational therapy: problematising practice to
address the socio-political shaping of occupation
3. A political project for occupational therapists
4. Social occupational therapy: principles for action towards participation
5. Analysing the practice context: a critical step in meeting professional obligations
6. Occupation
7. Reflecting on the contribution of the dimensions of the environment to occupational participation
8. The continual evolution of the occupational therapy profession
SECTION 2 UNDERSTANDING AND EXPLORING OCCUPATIONAL PARTICIPATION
9. Professional reasoning
10. An occupation, capability and wellbeing framework for occupational therapy
11. The Canadian model of occupational participation (canmop)
12. The collaborative relationship focused practice and the Canadian occupational therapy practice process framework
13. Process of exploring occupational participation
14. Exploring occupational needs and expanding occupational possibilities of collectives
15. Exploring the impact of the environment on occupational participation
16. Exploring occupational participation using the Canadian occupational performance measure
17. Exploring occupational participation using task, activity and occupational analyses
18. Dynamic performance analysis
19. Co-designing plans to access, initiate and sustain occupational participation
20. Exploring safety and risk to promote occupational participation
SECTION 3 SKILLS AND STRATEGIES TO PROMOTE OCCUPATIONAL PARTICIPATION
21. Advocacy
22. Education
23. Health promotion
24. Lifestyle and self-management
25. Sexuality
26. Work participation
27. Occupational performance coaching
28. Cognitive orientation to daily occupational performance (co-op) approach
29. Home modification and universal design
30. Embracing a critical community development orientation and strategy in occupational therapy practice
SECTION 4 SKILLS AND STRATEGIES TO SUPPORT THE PROMOTION OF OCCUPATIONAL PARTICIPATION
31. Assistive technology
32. Walking and falls
33. Wheeled mobility and seating systems
34. Driving and transportation for community mobility
35. Moving and positioning of people
36. Biomechanical strategies to initiate and sustain occupational participation
37. Managing fatigue
38. Managing pain
39. Improving arm function after acquired brain impairment
40. Hand therapy and orthotics
41. Working with people living with vision impairment
42. Cognition and perception
SECTION 5 PRACTICE STORIES – PROMOTING OCCUPATIONAL PARTICIPATION
43. Mrs Tremblay: continuum of care from hospital to community following a stroke
44. Mr Fitch: work retention vocational rehabilitation
45. Arthur: promoting occupational participation of a person with a life-limiting illness
46. Person-centred risk assessment and planning
47. Disaster preparedness and risk reduction
48. Wellness 2 age program
49. Pabllo and their dissidence of gender and sexuality
50. Building connections and accessing diverse networks during the covid-19 pandemic: national and provincial advocacy and lobbying in south Africa
1. Decoloniality in occupational therapy practice: preparation and readiness
2. Critical perspectives in occupational therapy: problematising practice to
address the socio-political shaping of occupation
3. A political project for occupational therapists
4. Social occupational therapy: principles for action towards participation
5. Analysing the practice context: a critical step in meeting professional obligations
6. Occupation
7. Reflecting on the contribution of the dimensions of the environment to occupational participation
8. The continual evolution of the occupational therapy profession
SECTION 2 UNDERSTANDING AND EXPLORING OCCUPATIONAL PARTICIPATION
9. Professional reasoning
10. An occupation, capability and wellbeing framework for occupational therapy
11. The Canadian model of occupational participation (canmop)
12. The collaborative relationship focused practice and the Canadian occupational therapy practice process framework
13. Process of exploring occupational participation
14. Exploring occupational needs and expanding occupational possibilities of collectives
15. Exploring the impact of the environment on occupational participation
16. Exploring occupational participation using the Canadian occupational performance measure
17. Exploring occupational participation using task, activity and occupational analyses
18. Dynamic performance analysis
19. Co-designing plans to access, initiate and sustain occupational participation
20. Exploring safety and risk to promote occupational participation
SECTION 3 SKILLS AND STRATEGIES TO PROMOTE OCCUPATIONAL PARTICIPATION
21. Advocacy
22. Education
23. Health promotion
24. Lifestyle and self-management
25. Sexuality
26. Work participation
27. Occupational performance coaching
28. Cognitive orientation to daily occupational performance (co-op) approach
29. Home modification and universal design
30. Embracing a critical community development orientation and strategy in occupational therapy practice
SECTION 4 SKILLS AND STRATEGIES TO SUPPORT THE PROMOTION OF OCCUPATIONAL PARTICIPATION
31. Assistive technology
32. Walking and falls
33. Wheeled mobility and seating systems
34. Driving and transportation for community mobility
35. Moving and positioning of people
36. Biomechanical strategies to initiate and sustain occupational participation
37. Managing fatigue
38. Managing pain
39. Improving arm function after acquired brain impairment
40. Hand therapy and orthotics
41. Working with people living with vision impairment
42. Cognition and perception
SECTION 5 PRACTICE STORIES – PROMOTING OCCUPATIONAL PARTICIPATION
43. Mrs Tremblay: continuum of care from hospital to community following a stroke
44. Mr Fitch: work retention vocational rehabilitation
45. Arthur: promoting occupational participation of a person with a life-limiting illness
46. Person-centred risk assessment and planning
47. Disaster preparedness and risk reduction
48. Wellness 2 age program
49. Pabllo and their dissidence of gender and sexuality
50. Building connections and accessing diverse networks during the covid-19 pandemic: national and provincial advocacy and lobbying in south Africa
- Edition: 8
- Published: March 4, 2025
- Language: English
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Michael Curtin
Michael Curtin is Head of School and Associate Professor, School of Allied Health, Exercise and Sports Sciences at Charles Sturt University, Albury, NSW, Australia.
Affiliations and expertise
Head of School and Associate Professor, School of Allied Health, Exercise and Sports Sciences, Charles Sturt University, Albury, NSW, AustraliaME
Mary Egan
Professor Mary Egan works in the School of Rehabilitation Sciences at University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, School of Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, CanadaYP
Yeliz Prior
Yeliz Prior is Professor of Clinical Rehabilitation, School of Health and Society, The University of Salford, Salford, Greater Manchester.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Clinical Rehabilitation, School of Health and Society, The University of Salford, Salford, Greater Manchester, UKTP
Tracey Parnell
Tracey Parnell is Associate Head of School and Senior Lecturer in Occupational Therapy, School of Allied Health, Exercise and Sports Sciences at Charles Sturt University, Albury, NSW, Australia.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Head of School and Senior Lecturer in Occupational Therapy, School of Allied Health, Exercise and Sports Sciences, Charles Sturt University, Albury, NSW, AustraliaRG
Roshan Galvaan
Roshan Galvaan is Professor of Occupational Therapy, Department of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Occupational Therapy, Department of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South AfricaKS
Katrine Sauvé-Schenk
Katrine Sauvé-Schenk is Assistant Professor, School of Rehabilitation Sciences at the University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor, School of Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, CanadaDD
Daniel Cezar Da Cruz
Daniel Cezar Da Cruz is Senior Lecturer in Occupational Therapy Programme, School of Health at Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, West Yorkshire.
Affiliations and expertise
Senior Lecturer in Occupational Therapy Programme, School of Health, Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK