Developing Occupation-Centered Programs for the Community: A Workbook for Students and Professionals - Softcover

Fazio Ph.D. OTR FAOTA, Linda S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0130833320 ISBN 13: 9780130833327

Publisher: Pearson, 2000

Synopsis

For professional-level occupational therapy curriculums, for occupational therapy assistant programs, and for practicing professionals.

This is the first text to focus specifically on the skills that occupational therapy practitioners need to start new programming and expand their practice in the community outside of the traditional hospital environment.

About this title

From the Back Cover

This is the first resource designed to prepare occupational therapists to expand their practice into community settings. An excellent tool for both students and practitioners, this book presents practical information on everything from assessing community needs, to setting up a practice, to writing a business plan, to marketing a new program.

FEATURES:

• Introduces a wide variety of exercises to aid readers in applying concepts and developing new programming.
• Presents transregional and cross-cultural examples of successful, effective programming to demonstrate occupational programming at work in the community.
• Discusses the skills readers need to be successful in community practice, such an communication, negotiation and advocacy, management, and ethics.
• Provides a practical approach for determining community needs and how to balance them with the programmer's skills and resources.
• Guides readers through the process of writing program goals and objectives and developing individualized client goals and objectives.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0130833320
• ISBN 13: 9780130833327
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 298