Education for Occupational Therapy in Health Care: Strategies for the New Millennium

by Crist; Patricia

• ISBN13: 9780789016874
• ISBN10: 0789016877
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781135791193
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2002-07-01
• Publisher: Routledge
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Summary

Learn the best new approaches from the world's leading OT educators!This timely book presents the most effective, innovative approaches to teaching the next generation of occupational therapists and occupational therapy assistants. Examining both fieldwork and classroom programs, Occupational Therapy in Health Care presents tested, state-of-the-art programs from leaders in the field. Its practical approaches focus on vital issues of teaching, including professional collaboration, measuring learning outcomes, emerging trends in the field, and student development. Its practical approaches focus on vital issues of teaching and fieldwork education: interactive reasoning collaborative learning the influence of learning styles student group leadership in fieldwork developing research competencies understanding disability in context establishing community partnerships academic leadership environmental scanning regarding emerging issues

Table of Contents

A Message from the Editors	1	(2)
Patricia Crist
Marjorie Scaffa
INSTRUCTIONAL METHODOLOGY
Disability in Context: A Community-Based Learning Experience	3	(10)
Sherry Borcherding
Diana Baldwin
Using Instructional Games: A Teaching Strategy for Increasing Student Participation and Retention	13	(10)
Kathy E. Gifford
The Fieldwork Profile: A Statistics Assignment Linked to the Real World of Occupational Therapy Students	23	(8)
Marcia Finlayson
Understanding Others: A Course to Learn Interactive Clinical Reasoning	31	(16)
Diana M. Bailey
Ellen S. Cohn
Parameters for Adapting Journal Writing Activities	47	(10)
Rick Hobbs
Aimee J. Luebben
FIELDWORK EDUCATION
The Reindeer of Hope: An Occupational Therapy Program in a Homeless Shelter	57	(12)
Anne Shordike
Donna Howell
Collaborative Learning Applied to Fieldwork Education	69	(16)
Ellen S. Cohn
Nancy Robert Dooley
Lynn A. Simmons
Group Co-Leadership by Occupational Therapy Students in Community Centers: Learning Transitional Roles	85	(14)
Mary V. Donohue
OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY ASSISTANT EDUCATION
The Betty Project: Jump-Starting Clinical Observation Skills in an OTA Curriculum	99	(6)
Mary Metzger- Edwards
ACADEMIC LEADERSHIP
A Teacher's Guide to The Cheater's Handbook	105	(4)
Karen Sladyk
Developing and Maintaining Community Partnerships Within ``A Scholarship of Practice''	109	(18)
Brent H. Braveman
Christine A. Helfrich
Gail S. Fisher
Combining Roles as an Academic Instructor and a Clinical Practitioner in Occupational Therapy: Benefits, Challenges, and Strategies for Success	127	(18)
Albert E. Copolillo
Elizabeth Walker Peterson
Christine A. Helfrich
STUDENT DEVELOPMENT
Occupational Therapy Students' Learning Styles and Application to Professional Academic Training	145	(12)
Victoria Moji Titiloye
Anne Hiller Scott
Educating Scholars of Practice: An Approach to Preparing Tomorrow's Researchers	157	(20)
Joy Hammel
Marcia Finlayson
Gary Kielhofner
Christine A. Helfrich
Elizabeth Peterson
Qualitative Evaluation of a Management Course Project: Creating New Job Possibilities for Occupational Therapy	177	(16)
Patricia L. Schaber
The Partnering Model: Occupational Therapy Assistant and Occupational Therapy Students Working Together	193	(16)
Carol R. Scheerer
COMMENTARY ON EDUCATION
Reflections on Education and Learning in Occupational Therapy for the 21st Century	209	(6)
Charlotte Brasic Royeen
A Review of AOTF Programs Directed Toward Education: 1965-2000	215	(4)
Nedra Gillette
Creating Education to Meet Health Care Predictions	219	(6)
Barbara Kornblau
Occupational Therapy Education: At the Heart of the Profession's Future	225	(6)
Joseph C. Isaacs
Doris Gordon
Entry Level Certification and the Educational Community	231	(6)
L. Randy Strickland
Index	237