Jane Cronin-Davis

An Evaluation of a Role-Emerging Practice Placement Model for a Full Cohort of Occupational Therapy Students

It is accepted that practice placements are instrumental in providing an invaluable education on professional concepts, attitudes and behaviours. However, despite suggestions that practice placement education needs to be modernised to meet the demands of the current climate, there is only evidence of a limited number of role-emerging placements within the United Kingdom despite their relative popularity and history abroad. This paper describes and briefly evaluates a ‘model’ of practice placement education within role-emerging settings for a full cohort of pre-registration occupational therapy students, which meets national and international standards and guidance for such programmes.

Occupational therapy evidence in practice for mental health

Occupational Therapy Evidence in Practice for Mental Health is an accessible and informative guide to the application of theory and the evidence-base to contemporary clinical practice. Fully updated throughout, chapters cover a range of mental health issues, approaches and settings, including service user and carer involvement, group work, services for older people, interventions, forensic mental health, and managing depression.

Investigating Binge Drinking Using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis: Occupation for Health or Harm?

ABSTRACT There is currently little research concerning occupations that may be detrimental rather than beneficial to health and well-being. This study used interpretative phenomenological analysis (Smith & Osborn, 2003) to explore one young mans experience of binge drinking; an occupation typically associated with varying health risks. Viewing his subjective account of binge drinking through the lens of Wilcocks (1993) theory of the human need for occupation, it could be regarded as an occupation to maintain aspects of health and well-being and therefore have some constructive elements. This study lends qualified support to Wilcocks hypothesis, suggesting that the relationship between occupation, health and well-being is far more complex than much of the earlier occupational science research proposed.

Doing practice-based research in therapy: a reflexive approach

The existence of this supervision group within a statutory health service setting is influencing the wider debate about reflexive learning opportunities for all health practitioners. For example, for the past four years now, I have facilitated a similar reflexive supervision group with a team of therapists in a voluntary counselling agency. The process framework... has now evolved into a Diploma in Advanced Reflexive Supervision, which is delivered to a multi-disciplinary participant group each year. (pp. 148–149)