Scholarly Commentary: Prioritising Practice Education through Collaborations

The critical importance of practice education in occupational therapy to graduate outcomes and preparedness for practice is well recognised (Doherty, Stagnitti, & Schoo, 2009; Gray et al., 2012; Holmes et al., 2010) being referred to as the bridge between academic education and occupational therapy practice (Roberts, Hooper, Wood, & King, 2015). It is also the foundation on which graduates make career choices and develop as professional occupational therapists. Recognition of the importance of practice education is evidenced through a growing international collection of published research into both innovative models and the pedagogy of practice education (Roberts et al., 2015)

Division of Occupational Therapy: self-review report for the HPCSA evaluation 2012

The Division of Occupational Therapy welcomes the HPCSA evaluators and looks forward to constructive engagement towards the quality assurance of the UCT occupational therapy education programme. This self-review report was developed by the Division of Occupational Therapy (OT) at the University of Cape Town for the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) in line with the procedure for evaluation of education programmes. It provides transparency into the development and implementation of the OT curriculum. This resource could be useful for those interested in occupational therapy in South Africa

Research Specialization in Physical Therapy or Occupational Therapy

This is document contains the original and the subsequent responses to the proposal to develop a Graduate Research Specialization for the Occupational Therapy and Physical Therapy

Returning to participation in everyday life after disability : A discussion of adaptation, transition and occupation

The aim of this article is to explore the concepts of adaptation and transition as concepts to be used when thinking about recovery processes of occupational lives of persons with disabilities. It posits that the term transition denotes the overarching idea that people strive towards getting their occupational life back on track and that adaptation refers to the redressive and remedial procedures of mitigating the effects of impairments to occupational functioning. This article argues that these concepts grasp the efforts made for people to overcome specific difficulties as well as the longitudinal aspects of revitalizing participation in everyday activities. Furthermore, the importance of this article is that this kind of knowledge, which generally is reflective of the perspectives of the person(s) involved in these processes, is likely to inform more effective client-centered occupational therapy services