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Occupational Therapy in Housing: Building on Firm Foundations
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This book provides practitioners with the foundations onto which they can build their own understanding and practice within housing.
It is based on two fundamental principles: the importance of homes becoming enabling environments, and promoting user-centred services. The authors argues that occupational therapists working in the distinct context of housing require additional background knowledge and professional skills to those used within healthcare settings. Explores a broad range of theory bases and developing practice within the area of occupational therapy in housing Presents a vast array of knowledge, research and experience Written by occupational therapists working as practitioners, educators and managers, alongside academics in the social policy and disability issues
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| Title of eBook: Occupational Therapy in Housing: Building on Firm Foundations | |
| Release Date: 05-17-2006 | |
| Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |
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Occupational Therapy in Housing: Building on Firm Foundations
Chapter One
The theory bases
Jani Grisbrooke
Working with housing and people's homes, housing professionals require a different background understanding and extension of professional skills to those used to working with a healthcare team in a hospital or a community setting.
In this chapter, the theory bases which underlie what occupational therapists do with housing work, why they do it and how they do it will be examined. The sections of this chapter link to and are introductory to later chapters which cover occupational therapist practice in the field.
Theory bases identified include:
socio-political approaches (citizenship, rights, civil rights and social policy, control of the professions);
occupational therapy approaches (problem-solving, environment as a term, Reed and Sanderson, person-environment-occupations model, Person-Environment-Occupational Performance Model, occupational science);
construction and design theory bases (ergonomics, building and planning);
biomedical/health theory base;
two issues not in themselves theory bases (care management and evidence-based practice).
Introduction
Working with housing means working with a phenomenon which is both universal, since most people in the world live in built accommodation, but which is culturally specific in that techniques, traditions, methods and materials for building vary across countries and ethnic groups. The experience of working with housing adaptations as an occupational therapist is also nationally specific since the ways in which adapta
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