Occupation-Centred Practice with Children
A Practical Guide for Occupational Therapists
Sylvia Rodger, Ann Kennedy-Behr, Sylvia Rodger, Ann Kennedy-Behr
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Occupation-Centred Practice with Children
A Practical Guide for Occupational Therapists
Sylvia Rodger, Ann Kennedy-Behr, Sylvia Rodger, Ann Kennedy-Behr
About This Book
Occupation-Centred Practice with Children remains the only occupational therapy book which supports the development and implementation of occupation-centred practice with children. Drawing on the latest occupational therapy theory and research, this new edition has been fully updated throughout, and includes new chapters on occupational transitions for children and young people, assessing children's occupations and participation, intervention within schools, the arts and children's occupational opportunities, as well as using animals to support children's occupational engagement.
Key features:
- Written by an international expert team of contributors.
- Each chapter begins with preliminary questions to assist with consideration of current knowledge, and then reflection questions at the conclusion to allow revision of key content in order to support independent learning.
- Highly practical, with a range of case studies, key point summaries, reflective questions, best practice guidelines, and a range of tools, interventions and techniques to aid applications to practice.
- A new appendix outlining all the assessments referred to in the book has now been included.
Occupation-Centred Practice with Children is a practical, theoretically grounded and evidence based guide to contemporary occupational therapy practice, and is important reading for all occupational therapy students and therapists wishing to make a real difference to children and their families' lives.
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Chapter 1
Introduction to Occupationâcentred Practice for Children
If we donât stand up for children, then we donât stand for much.
Marian Wright Edelman
Preliminary questions
- Why a book on occupationâcentred practice for children?
- Think about your childhood: what did you most like doing?
- Think about your childhood: what did you least like doing?
- What were the environments that you engaged in (e.g. home, park, school, neighbourhood)? How did they afford opportunities for occupation?
- Did you play sports, learn an instrument or go to clubs or organised activities?
- How might your childhood be different to those of children today?
- How might living in the city vs country, suburb vs. high rise impact on childrenâs occupations?
Introduction
- Briefly describe the resurgence of occupation within the occupational therapy profession.
- Outline some global trends that have occurred in parallel with the refocusing of the profession.
- Describe some of the challenges to traditional developmental theory that has historically informed occupational therapy practice with children, as well as emerging views and theories of occupational development that have the potential to better inform our practice with children and their families.
- Identify the impact of these professional and global trends on occupational therapy practice with children.
- People have the right to participate in a range of occupations that enable them to flourish, fulfil their potential and experience satisfaction in a way consistent with their culture and beliefs.
- People have the right to be supported to participate in occupation, through engaging in occupation, to become valued members of their family, community and society.
- People have the right to choose for themselves, to be free from pressure, force or coercion, in participating in occupations that may threaten safety, survival and health, and those occupations that are deâhumanising, degrading or illegal.
- The right to occupation encompasses civic, educative, productive, social, creative, spiritual and restorative occupations.
- At a societal level the right to occupation is underpinned by the valuing of each personâs unique contribution to the valued and meaningful occupations of society and is ensured by equitable access to participation regardless of difference.
- Abuses to the right to occupation may take the form of economic, social or physical exclusion through attitudinal or physical barriers, or through control of access to necessary knowledge, skills, and resources, or venues where occupation takes place.
- Global conditions that threaten the right to occupation include poverty, disease, social discrimination, displacement, natural and manâmade disasters, and armed conflict.