Open AccessDevelopment of a personal, professional and educational occupational philosophy: an Australian perspective
Author(s) -
Wilcock Ann A.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
occupational therapy international
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.414
H-Index - 37
eISSN - 1557-0703
pISSN - 0966-7903
DOI - 10.1002/oti.108
Subject(s) - occupational therapy , perspective (graphical) , occupational science , medical education , professional development , personal development , engineering ethics , sociology , psychology , pedagogy , medicine , psychotherapist , engineering , computer science , psychiatry , artificial intelligence
Occupational science, the study of people as occupational beings, provides the impetus to review occupational therapy practice and education in a new light. In this article personal reflections grounded in Australasian experience suggest the benefits of developing simple but generic personal, professional and educational philosophies which are complementary to one another and founded on the notion of ‘occupation for health’. Copyright © 2000 Whurr Publishers Ltd.