main goals of occupational therapy. Providing psychological and emotional support at every stage of the cancer journey is important and occupational therapists recognize the role it plays in improving wellbeing. Additionally, occupational therapists are using innovative approaches to rehabilitation to explore...
Occupational therapists have a long-standing familiarity with and commitment to the concept of change. Our professional practice has always had a primary focus on assisting individuals as they adapt to change due to disability and disease. The recent literature on adaptation, stress, and coping prese...
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Having your own occupational health advisor working or trying to work with the NHS is near on impossible. It just doesn’t work. (Participant 8, managing director) Participants who had experience of occupational therapists supporting an employee felt that they had benefited from advice and informa...
(i.e. whether the person was a family member, colleague, friend or acquaintance) might predict outcomes differently. One study found an increase in PTSD risk for each additional death of a colleague [97] while another found that loss of a co-worker led to a near 4-fold increase in ...
Enabling Occupation II: Advancing an Occupational Therapy Vision for Health, well-being & Justice Through Occupation; Canadian Association of Occupational Therapists: Ottawa, ON, Canada, 2007. 54. Anderson, K.; Richardson, V.E.; Fields, N.L.; Harootyan, R. Inclusion or exclusion? Exploring ...