
Using Occupational Therapy Models in Practice
A Fieldguide
- 1st Edition - November 12, 2010
- Imprint: Churchill Livingstone
- Authors: Merrill June Turpin, Michael K. Iwama
- Language: English
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 7 0 2 0 - 4 8 4 6 - 3
This book is a succinct and practical guide for students and practitioners applying occupational therapy models in the field. It provides an overview of the common models in… Read more

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Request a sales quoteThis book is a succinct and practical guide for students and practitioners applying occupational therapy models in the field. It provides an overview of the common models in practice and bridges the gap between theoretical texts on conceptual models and the immediate demands of practice. It describes occupational therapists' use of models within the realities of practice in a variety of contexts and takes the approach that practice models can be used as tools to guide clinical reasoning.
- Provides an in-depth overview of 9 different models which can easily be compared and contrasted
- Highlights the vital relationship between clinical reasoning and the practical use of models
- Includes tools such as clinical reasoning memory aids, diagrams and major references
- Presents models in the context of their culturally and historically situated development
- Written by internationally renowned occupational therapists who are well experienced in applying models to practice
Occupational therapy students - 1st and 2nd year.
Market ratio: 80% student, 20% practitioner
Conferences: annual COT conference in June.
Cluster with other OT students texts: Curtin et al - OT and Physical dysfunction, Creek & Lougher - OT and Mental Health, Duncan - Foundations for Practice, Kronenberg et al - Occupational Therapy without Borders.
No of OT students in UK: approx 4500
No of OT practitioners in UK: approx 26,000
Market ratio: 80% student, 20% practitioner
Conferences: annual COT conference in June.
Cluster with other OT students texts: Curtin et al - OT and Physical dysfunction, Creek & Lougher - OT and Mental Health, Duncan - Foundations for Practice, Kronenberg et al - Occupational Therapy without Borders.
No of OT students in UK: approx 4500
No of OT practitioners in UK: approx 26,000
Introduction
Chapter 1: Theory and practice
Chapter 2: Professional reasoning in context
Chapter 3: Occupational performance and adaptation models
Chapter 4: Person-environment-occupation models
Chapter 5: Canadian models of occupational performance and engagement
Chapter 6: model of human occupation
Chapter 7: Kawa model
Chapter 8: Occupational therapy concepts
- Edition: 1
- Published: November 12, 2010
- Imprint: Churchill Livingstone
- Language: English
- eBook ISBN: 9780702048463
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Merrill June Turpin
Affiliations and expertise
Senior Lecturer of Occupational Therapy, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, The University of Queensland, AustraliaMI
Michael K. Iwama
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, Graduate Department of Rehabilitation,Sciences, and Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, Faculty of Medicine,University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada