International Handbook of Occupational Therapy Interventions
International Handbook of Occupational Therapy Interventions Ingrid Söderback, Uppsala Universitet, Uppsala and Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden Resources for rehabilitation specialists tend to follow a straight line: injury—disability—limitation—
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International Handbook of Occupational Therapy Interventions
Editor Ingrid Söderback Associate Professor in Occupational Therapy and Rehabilitation Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden and University Lecturer Emerita Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden Home address: Sickla Kanalgata 31 nb SE 13165 Nacka E-mail: [email protected]
ISBN: 978-0-387-75423-9 e-ISBN: 978-0-387-75424-6 DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-75424-6 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2009927464 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2009 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
To be occupied is a fundamental right in every human being’s life. The occupational therapists’ main professional role is to encourage the clients’ occupational performances. To occupational therapy students, occupational therapists, and members of rehabilitation and health care teams, who are professionally working to improve their clients’ health and wellness, and to stakeholders responsible for the administration of occupational therapy, worldwide.
Foreword
The World Federation of Occupational Therapists (WFOT) estimates that there are over 300,000 practicing occupational therapists (OTs) in 66 countries. The growth of the profession of occupational therapy in the last 50 years is extraordinary. When I first practiced occupational therapy in the Brooklyn Day Hospital in New York City in 1958, there were about 4000 OTs in the United States and a few more thousand in the rest of the world. The countries of the former British Commonwealth, Scandinavia, and the Unites States dominated practice. Most OTs worked in hospitals either in psychiatric or long-term chronic care facilities. Occupational therapy was primarily paired with physical and speech therapies as rehabilitation professions. The modalities used in practice were mainly arts and crafts and creative media. Now, in 2009, the profession of occupational therapy has expanded its concepts, intervention modalities, and scope of practice. This handbook represents the coming of age in global occupational therapy. The authors are distinguished experts in the diverse practice of occupational therapy from around the world.
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