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Occupational Therapy: Is it the Creative Problem Solving Process which the Profession claims?
Author(s) -
Graham Jenny
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
australian occupational therapy journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.595
H-Index - 44
eISSN - 1440-1630
pISSN - 0045-0766
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1630.1983.tb01429.x
Subject(s) - creativity , occupational therapy , process (computing) , creative problem solving , psychology , virtue , engineering ethics , psychotherapist , medical education , medicine , epistemology , social psychology , computer science , engineering , psychiatry , philosophy , operating system
The process of creative problem solving, the acclaimed basis of occupational therapy practice, is examined. It is suggested that the fostering of creative problem solving or creative analysis skill requires a particular approach to progressional education — that is, adherence to a systematic problem solving framework together with encouragement of, and provision of opportunity for, individual and group experimentation with creativity enhancing techniques. The extent to which occupational therapy education programmes embrace such an approach is questioned. So too, therefore, is the claim that occupational therapists, by virtue of their professional preparation, are creative problem solvers.