Occupational Therapy in the Market Place

1983 ◽  
Vol 46 (7) ◽  
pp. 200-201
Author(s):  
Marian Hemsworth
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Therapy ◽  
Sales Force ◽  
Occupational Therapist ◽  
The Other ◽  
Market Place ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Self Interest ◽  
Definition Of

Occupational Therapy and the marketing of equipment for disabled people may seem unlikely allies. Yet each has something to contribute to the other, and their skills can be mutually enriching. Certainly this has been the experience of the company for which I work, whose range of products includes stairlifts and homelifts for disabled people. One definition of marketing speaks of ‘identifying and satisfying consumer needs’, and there is truth in the maxim that a satisfied customer is the best advertisement for any manufacturer. In pursuit of a policy of enlightened self-interest, my company about eighteen months ago, advertised for an occupational therapist to fill a vacancy in the technical sales force. An unusual step to take perhaps but it could be reasoned that an OT would be able to help towards ensuring that every stairlift sold would really be what the client needed.

Curriculum Planning for Community Occupational Therapy

1979 ◽  
Vol 46 (5) ◽  
pp. 201-205 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Etcheverry
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Therapy ◽  
Occupational Therapists ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Educational Programs ◽  
Occupational Therapist ◽  
Curriculum Planning ◽  
Community Roles ◽  
Definition Of

The main objective of this paper is to present methods by which community related education can be integrated into occupational therapy educational programs. Reasons why community roles are necessary for occupational therapists are discussed. This is followed by a definition of the term community occupational therapy, and by a description of the skills and knowledge required of the community occupational therapist. These elements of skill and knowledge are then related to academic and field work components of curricula in occupational therapy.

scholarly journals “Vamos te levar no ponto mais alto daqui”: conhecendo ações da terapia ocupacional com crianças/"We'll take you to the highest point here": knowing occupational therapy actions with children

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 475-483
Author(s):  
Marina Di Napoli Pastore
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Therapy ◽  
Urban Community ◽  
Occupational Therapist ◽  
The Other ◽  
Image Description ◽  
Photo Essay

Objetivo: Este ensaio fotográfico propõe pensarmos as práticas com as crianças nos mais diversos territórios, em diálogos constantes com suas realidades e contextos. Descrição da imagem: é trazida uma imagem de duas crianças numa comunidade urbana e a interlocução com a terapeuta ocupacional, em que mostram seus espaços de significado e de sentidos, em meio ao território, e nos fazem repensar, juntamente com as demais imagens ao longo do texto, as ações territoriais e práticas com crianças a partir e em diálogo com suas realidades e a produção das imagens por elas como apropriação do espaço.Palavras-chave: Criança. Fotografia. Terapia Ocupacional AbstractObjective: this photo essay proposes to think about the practices with children in the most diverse territories, in constant dialogues with their realities and contexts. Image description: An image of two children in an urban community is brought and the dialogue with the occupational therapist, in which they show their spaces of meaning and meanings in the middle of the territory and make us rethink, together with the other images throughout the text, the territorial and practical actions with children from and in dialogue with their realities and the production of images by them as appropriation of space.Keywords: Children. Photography. Occupational Therapy ResumenObjetivo: este ensayo fotográfico propone pensar las prácticas con los niños en los más diversos territorios, en diálogos constantes con sus realidades y contextos. Descripción de la imagen: se trae una imagen de dos niños en una comunidad urbana y el diálogo con el terapeuta ocupacional, en el que muestran sus espacios de significado y significados en medio del territorio y nos hacen repensar, junto con las otras imágenes a lo largo del texto, las acciones territoriales y prácticas con los niños desde y en diálogo con sus realidades y la producción de imágenes por ellos como apropiación del espacio.Palavras Clave: Niños y Niñas. Fotografía. Terapia Ocupacional 

scholarly journals Beyond Calculus: Apple-apple-apple-ike and Other Embodied Pleasures for a Child Diagnosed with Autism in a Sensory Integration Based Clinic

2009 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Melissa Park
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Occupational Therapy ◽  
Clinical Reasoning ◽  
Sensory Integration ◽  
Occupational Therapist ◽  
The Other ◽  
Font Size ◽  
Diagnostic Categories ◽  
Rehabilitation Research ◽  
Models Of Disability

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 6pt 0in;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Arial;">Models of disability shift attention to how institutionalized forms of misrecognition are as debilitating as disease processes or diagnostic categories. Drawing from an ethnography of clinical practice, this article focuses on the poetic process—visible in fleeting, bodily-sensing images, gestures or nonsensical utterances like “apple-apple-ike”—that structures the interactions between a child diagnosed with autism and an occupational therapist. Microanalysis of moments of bodily attunement reveal how the emergence of <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">embodied pleasures</em> leads to a <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">mutual healing of regard</em>; that is, how techniques of bodily-sensing interventions work equally to restore the health of social relatedness. The tight entanglement between intercorporeality and intersubjectivity—embodied pleasure and recognition of the Other—foregrounds that the <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">healing of regard must be mutual. </em>Reframing rehabilitation research in terms of <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">aesthetics </em>and <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">folk neurology </em>considers what is at stake in developing a language to grasp what constitutes evidence of healing beyond a calculus of discrete, measureable outcomes. </span></p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">[Keywords: aesthetics, clinical reasoning, intersubjectivity, occupational therapy, recognition]</span>

Immunoferritin localization of intracellular antigens in positively stained frozen sections

1978 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 168-169
Author(s):  
K. T. Tokuyasu
Keyword(s):  
Surface Tension ◽  
Water Surface ◽  
Thin Layers ◽  
The Other ◽  
Positive Staining ◽  
Frozen Sections ◽  
The Past ◽  
Ultrathin Frozen Sections ◽  
Definition Of

During the past investigations of immunoferritin localization of intracellular antigens in ultrathin frozen sections, we found that the degree of negative staining required to delineate u1trastructural details was often too dense for the recognition of ferritin particles. The quality of positive staining of ultrathin frozen sections, on the other hand, has generally been far inferior to that attainable in conventional plastic embedded sections, particularly in the definition of membranes. As we discussed before, a main cause of this difficulty seemed to be the vulnerability of frozen sections to the damaging effects of air-water surface tension at the time of drying of the sections.Indeed, we found that the quality of positive staining is greatly improved when positively stained frozen sections are protected against the effects of surface tension by embedding them in thin layers of mechanically stable materials at the time of drying (unpublished).

scholarly journals Language Family Engineering with Product Lines of Multi-level Models

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan de Lara ◽  
Esther Guerra
Keyword(s):  
Software Engineering ◽  
Arbitrary Number ◽  
Formal Theory ◽  
The Other ◽  
Language Family ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Product Lines ◽  
Modelling Languages ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
Definition Of

AbstractModelling is an essential activity in software engineering. It typically involves two meta-levels: one includes meta-models that describe modelling languages, and the other contains models built by instantiating those meta-models. Multi-level modelling generalizes this approach by allowing models to span an arbitrary number of meta-levels. A scenario that profits from multi-level modelling is the definition of language families that can be specialized (e.g., for different domains) by successive refinements at subsequent meta-levels, hence promoting language reuse. This enables an open set of variability options given by all possible specializations of the language family. However, multi-level modelling lacks the ability to express closed variability regarding the availability of language primitives or the possibility to opt between alternative primitive realizations. This limits the reuse opportunities of a language family. To improve this situation, we propose a novel combination of product lines with multi-level modelling to cover both open and closed variability. Our proposal is backed by a formal theory that guarantees correctness, enables top-down and bottom-up language variability design, and is implemented atop the MetaDepth multi-level modelling tool.

scholarly journals Patient functional independence and occupational therapist time-use in inpatient services: Patient demographic and clinical correlates

2021 ◽  
pp. 156918612110187
Author(s):  
Bianca E Summers ◽  
Kate E Laver ◽  
Rebecca J Nicks ◽  
Nadine E Andrew ◽  
Christopher J Barr ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Therapy ◽  
Time Use ◽  
Health Care Expenditure ◽  
Functional Independence ◽  
Occupational Therapist ◽  
Sociodemographic Characteristics ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Patient Demographics ◽  
Therapy Services ◽  
Multivariable Modelling

Introduction Health care expenditure has rapidly increased in Australia. Effective management of occupational therapy services is required to meet clinical demand. Improving our understanding of factors which influence occupational therapy service delivery is a vital step to manage workload distribution and optimise service efficiency. This study aims to examine the influence of patient sociodemographic characteristics, diagnosis and functional independence on the utilisation of occupational therapy resources in hospital inpatients over 18 years old. Methods Prospective, cross-sectional, observational cohort study of 4549 inpatients from three hospital sites in Melbourne, Australia. Data extracted from organisational databases and included in this study were: patient demographics, diagnosis, functional level assessed using the SMAF (Functional Autonomy Measurement System) and occupational therapy time-use. Data were analysed using univariable and multivariable modelling. Results Occupational therapy time-use was significantly associated with all variables included in analysis ( p < 0.05). For each variable the amount and direction of effect differed between hospital sites. The SMAF was the only variable consistently associated with occupational therapy time-use. Higher occupational therapy time-use was associated with lower functional independence (leading to a 3.5 min increase in median occupational therapy time for every unit decrease in SMAF score). Conclusions Management of resources within busy hospitals require knowledge of factors associated with occupational therapist time-use. This study identified that time-use could in part be predicted by functional independence, diagnosis and sociodemographic characteristics. Occupational therapy managers can use this information to support decision making while acknowledging other patient and therapist level factors also influence time-use.

Identity, Community and Belonging in gcc States

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 401-428
Author(s):  
Miriam R. Lowi
Keyword(s):  
Religious Affiliation ◽  
Protective Role ◽  
The Other ◽  
National Project ◽  
Scholarly Literature ◽  
National Community ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Definition Of

Studies of identity and belonging in Gulf monarchies tend to privilege tribal or religious affiliation, if not the protective role of the ruler as paterfamilias. I focus instead on the ubiquitous foreigner and explore ways in which s/he contributes to the definition of national community in contemporary gcc states. Building upon and moving beyond the scholarly literature on imported labor in the Gulf, I suggest that the different ‘categories’ of foreigners impact identity and the consolidation of a community of privilege, in keeping with the national project of ruling families. Furthermore, I argue that the ‘European,’ the non-gcc Arab, and the predominantly Asian (and increasingly African) laborer play similar, but also distinct roles in the delineation of national community: while they are differentially incorporated in ways that protect the ‘nation’ and appease the citizen-subject, varying degrees of marginality reflect Gulf society’s perceptions or aspirations of the difference between itself and ‘the other(s).’

Biofeedback and the Computer

1988 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 57-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Felicity Crofts ◽  
John Crofts
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Therapist ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Orthopaedic Patients ◽  
Television Programme ◽  
The Uk

A television programme on the benefits of technology for disabled people stimulated interest in the possibility of electromyographic techniques providing biofeedback via the computer. A review of the literature suggests that this subject is little publicized in the UK compared with other countries. The advent of the Myolink has facilitated computer-enhanced biofeedback for the occupational therapist. The use of the Myolink with orthopaedic patients is described.

scholarly journals Note on osmotic pressure

1914 ◽  
Vol 90 (615) ◽  
pp. 41-45
Keyword(s):  
Osmotic Pressure ◽  
Vapour Pressure ◽  
Numerical Data ◽  
The Other ◽  
Present Moment ◽  
Capillary Surface ◽  
Pure Solvent ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Complete Account ◽  
Strict Definition

The vapour pressure theory regards osmotic pressure as the pressure required to produce equilibrium between the pure solvent and the solution. Pressure applied to a solution increases its internal vapour pressure. If the compressed solution be on one aide of a semi-permeable partition and the pure solvent on the other, there is osmotic equilibrium when the com-pression of the solution brings its vapour pressure to equality with that of the solvent. So long ago as 1894 Ramsay* found that with a partition of palladium, permeable to hydrogen but not to nitrogen, the hydrogen pressures on each side tended to equality, notwithstanding the presence of nitrogen under pressure on one side, which it might have been supposed would have resisted tin- transpiration of the hydrogen. The bearing of this experiment on the problem of osmotic pressure was recognised by van’t Hoff, who observes that "it is very instructive as regards the means by which osmotic pressure is produced." But it was not till 1908 that the vapour pressure theory of osmotic pressure was developed on a finu foundation by Calendar. He demonstrated, by the method of the "vapour sieve" piston, the proposition that “any two solutions in equilibrium through any kind of membrane or capillary surface must have the same vapour pressures in respect of each of their constituents which is capable of diffusing through their surface of separation"—a generalisation of great importance for the theory of solutions. Findlay, in his admirable monograph, gives a very complete account of the contending theories of osmotic pressure, a review of which leaves no doubt that at the present moment the vapour pressure theory stands without a serious rival Some confusion of ideas still arises from the want of adherence to a strict definition of osmotic pressure to which numerical data from experimental measurements should he reduced. Tire following definitions appear to be tire outcome of tire vapour pressure theory :— Definition I.—The vapour pressure of a solution is the pressure of the vapour with which it is in equilibrium when under pressure of its own vapour only.

scholarly journals What is professionalism in occupational therapy? A concept analysis

2021 ◽  
pp. 000841742199437
Author(s):  
Alexandra Lecours ◽  
Nancy Baril ◽  
Marie-Josée Drolet
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Therapy ◽  
Professional Identity ◽  
Cultural Influences ◽  
Occupational Therapists ◽  
Concept Analysis ◽  
Operational Definition ◽  
Analysis Design ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Extract Information

Background. Professionalism has been given different definitions over time. These are, commonly theoretical and difficult to operationalize. Purpose. This study aimed to provide an operational definition of the concept of professionalism in occupational therapy. Method. Based on a concept analysis design, a meta-narrative review was conducted to extract information from 30 occupational therapy manuscripts. Findings. Professionalism is a complex competence defined by the manifestation of distinct attitudes and behaviours that support excellence in the occupational therapy practice. In addition, professionalism is forged and evolves according to personal and environmental characteristics. The manifestation of professionalism can lead to positive consequences for occupational therapists, clients, and the discipline, notably contributing to a positive and strong professional identity. Moreover, professionalism is also subject to cultural influences, which leads to variations in its development, manifestations, and consequences. Implications. This study offers a contemporary operational definition of professionalism and levers to promote its development and maintenance.

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