Practice and Service Learning in Occupational Therapy: Enhancing Potential in Context - Softcover

This engaging book includes coverage of:

• The practice education agenda, establishes the academic rationale for various forms of practice learning within an occupational therapy curriculum.
• The learning opportunities offered by different practice contexts and the different mechanisms for developing the professional identity of students.
• A review of the mechanisms that may be used for supporting students in the field and a look at the future of practice education and how it might develop in response to local and international drivers.

Practice and Service Learning in Occupational Therapy: Enhancing Potential in Context addresses the challenges associated with placing students in often quite vulnerable situations for the purpose of both learning and making a contribution to the community.

Occupational therapy practice educators and supervisors, occupational therapy students, students and lecturers of other health and social care, social development professions such as nurses, social workers, public health practitioners, urban planners and teachers would benefit from this book.

Theresa Lorenzo, Lecturer and fieldwork co-ordinator, Division of Occupational Therapy, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Madeleine Duncan, Senior Lecturer/Chief Occupational Therapist, Division of Occupational Therapy,  University of Cape Town, South Africa

Helen Buchanan, Lecturer, Division of Occupational Therapy, University of Cape Town, South Africa.