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

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