Occupational Therapy Across Cultural Boundaries

Theory, Practice and Professional Development

Susan Cook Merrill (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

130 Seiten

2016
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-97738-9 (ISBN)

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This fascinating book examines the concept of culture from a unique perspective--that of individual occupational therapists who have worked in environments very different from those in which they were educated or had worked previously. In Occupational Therapy Across Cultural Boundaries, six occupational therapists relate their experiences living and working in a foreign culture. Each author describes the daily demands placed upon her through immersion into a different way of life and discusses the environmental challenges she had to overcome to be able to live and work successfully. Many of the cultural differences the authors faced forced them to reassess and reconstruct their most basic assumptions of both personal and professional life as they discovered that activities and theories common or applicable in one culture are not necessarily translatable into another. The authors also analyze culture across treatment areas in occupational therapy practice, including mental health and physical disability, with both adults and children.Both beginning and experienced occupational therapists and occupational therapy students will find much valuable information in Occupational Therapy Across Cultural Boundaries. Whether interested in examining occupational therapy’s application to non-Western cultures, or actually contemplating practicing in a different culture, readers will benefit from learning about the experiences of the authors. This unique book is also helpful for occupational therapy students wishing to examine the philosophy of occupational therapy or the significance of culture to human occupation. Professors will find it useful as an ancillary textbook for undergraduate and graduate courses in occupational therapy on topics such as theory, occupation across cultures, or meaningful activity.

Susan Cook Merrill

Contents
An Occupational Therapy Experience in Ecuador

A Perspective on Consulting in Guatemala
Sensory Integration in Finland
Schizophrenia: Living With Madness Here and in Zanzibar
Evaluating the Developmental Skills of Cambodian Orphans
Training in a Foreign Land That is Home
Continuing Discussion On: Occupational Therapy Literature Information Services
An Ernest Response to Roberts’ Comments
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	22.08.2016
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	181 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Physiotherapie / Ergotherapie ► Ergotherapie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-138-97738-1 / 1138977381
ISBN-13	978-1-138-97738-9 / 9781138977389
Zustand	Neuware