Developing Occupation-Centered Programs for the Community: A Workbook for Students and Professionals - Softcover

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This is the first resource designed to prepare occupational therapists to expand their practice into community settings. An excellent tool for both students and practitioners, this book presents practical information on everything from assessing community needs, to setting up a practice, to writing a business plan, to marketing a new program.

FEATURES:

• Introduces a wide variety of exercises to aid readers in applying concepts and developing new programming.
• Presents transregional and cross-cultural examples of successful, effective programming to demonstrate occupational programming at work in the community.
• Discusses the skills readers need to be successful in community practice, such an communication, negotiation and advocacy, management, and ethics.
• Provides a practical approach for determining community needs and how to balance them with the programmer's skills and resources.
• Guides readers through the process of writing program goals and objectives and developing individualized client goals and objectives.