As a family therapy educator and a director of a family therapy clinic, the fall-out to families where help is too little too late is a tremendous part of the work we do.
Drama therapy education presents unique complexities for educators.
The transition to value-based care will require the participation of occupational therapy practitioners, educators, and researchers to develop strategies that will align the practice of occupational therapy with the Triple Aim of health care reform.
Charlotte's Litter advocates and seeks to connect resources and experienced people to provide input and guidance to parents and educators about therapy dog programs in educational and societal settings.
In a study at three universities in Australia, including 29 occupational therapy students, 41 practice educators and eight practice education staff, the importance of positive (confirmatory) and negative or critical (corrective) feedback was emphasised (Rodger et al., 2011).
They included representatives of emergency medical, trauma, general and specialist surgical services, Māori and Pacific Family Support services, therapy services, hospital school educators, rehabilitation service providers (public and private), the disability support sector and the Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC).
Participants were identified by applying the following selection criteria: HCPs working in rheumatology and/or hand therapy, clinician, researcher or educator, and regularly using hand assessments (in practice, research or education).
Considerably fewer comments were made by representatives from utilization review, palliative care, pharmacy, diabetes educator, respiratory therapy, nutrition, and occupational therapy (data not shown).
The first questionnaire was emailed to a total of 636 clinical educators in occupational therapy, physiotherapy and speech pathology.
