This professionally challenging volume--focusing on the performance and status of Certified Occupational Therapy Assistants (COTAs)--serves as a basis for reexamination and redefinition of the relationship between occupational therapists and assistants. Experts offer constructive possibilities for resolving some of the ongoing conflicts about the appropriate functions and education of COTAs and promote examination of the appropriate levels of function and education for the occupational therapist. The selected topics, chosen for their value and relevance to all occupational therapists--OTRs, COTAs, clinicians, and academicians--address the administrative issues regarding efficient use of COTAs and opportunities for their career development and job satisfaction; models of COTA practice described by COTAs who developed and implemented them within the framework of their jobs; and issues of concern to COTAs primarily as expressed by COTAs, with proposals and strategies for their resolution.
Zusammenfassung
One of developmental psychology's central concerns is the identification of specific "e;milestones"e; which indicate what children are typically capable of doing at different ages. Work of this kind has a substantial impact on the way parents, educators, and service-oriented professionals deal with children; and, therefore one might expect that developmentalists would have come to some general agreement in regard to the ways they assess children's abilities. However, as this volume demonstrates, the field appears to suffer from a serious lack of consensus in this area. Based on the premise that identifying relevant issues is a necessary step toward progress, this book addresses a number of vital topics, such as: How could research into fundamental areas (such as the age at which children first acquire a sense of self or learn to reason transitively) repeatedly yield wildly diverse results? Why do experts who hold to radically different views appear to be so unruffled by this same divergence of professional opinion? and, Are there grounds for hope that this divergence of professional opinion is on the wane?
Inhalt
Contents
Career Ladder Development of Certified Occupational Therapy Assistants
- Supervision of the Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant: Developing a Knowledge Base and Strategy
- Calculating Cost Effectiveness With the Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant
- Designing Job Enrichment Projects
- Certified Occupational Therapy Assistants and Microcomputers
- Wheelchair Clinics Work
- Splinting Design and Fabrication in Physical Disabilities: A Splinting Assistance Program
- The Autosyringe Backpack for Children With Cancer: A Device That Permits Mobility
- Toy Adaptations in Pediatrics
- Occupational Therapy and Low Vision Rehabilitation
- The Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant as an Activity Director
- A Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant's Contributions to a Substance Abuse Treatment Program
- Role Delineation of the Registered Occupational Therapist and the Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant in Child Psychiatry
- The Roles of the Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant and the Registered Occupational Therapist in Adult Psychiatry
- Incorporating Structured Learning Therapy Into Occupational Therapy Treatment of Chronic Psychiatric Patients
- Job Search Skills for Unemployed Psychiatric Patients
- Strategies for Resolution on Intraprofessional Conflict Related to the Role of the Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant
- Mysticism and Skepticism: Obstacles to the Culturalization of the Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant
- Certified Occupational Therapy Assistants: Preparation for Change
- Some Messages for the COTA on Image, Imagery, and Imagination
- Thoughts on Leadership: Certified Occupational Therapy Assistants: Reflections on Their Thirtieth Anniversary