Using Occupational Therapy Theory in Practice

Dr Gail Boniface is Senior Lecturer & Programme Manager at Cardiff University. She has been teaching theory since 1987. She developed student handouts and teaching material into short courses on models of occupational therapy. These courses included definitions of terms related to theory and were delivered across Wales and England. They were then turned into a module on the MSc in Cardiff University for qualified practitioners. She also delivered similar key note lectures and courses in Germany, Sweden, Croatia and Poland. In more recent years she has worked with Gloucestershire Primary Care Trust to instil theory and the use of a model in the occupational therapy service there. Alison Seymour is Lecturer & Admissions Tutor at Cardiff University and currently teaches the use of models on the postgraduate diploma in occupational therapy. Over a 19 year career in occupational therapy practice in mental health she has used the Activities Therapy Model, Model of Adaptation through Occupation and The Model of Human Occupation in a variety of community and hospital settings.

Contributor biographies v

Foreword xi

1 Introduction 1
Gail Boniface and Alison Seymour

Section 1: Theory

2 Reconfiguring professional thinking and conduct: a challenge for occupational therapists in practice 9
Della Fish and Gail Boniface

3 Defining occupational therapy theory 21
Gail Boniface

4 FromStrands to The Invisibles: from a technical to a moral mode of reflective practice 38
Della Fish

5 The use of self in occupational therapy 49
Alison Seymour

Section 2: The Use of Theory in Practice: Some Practitioner Narratives

6 Developing the use of the Model of Human Occupation in a mental health service 63
Linda Keelan and Lisa John

7 Using Reed and Sanderson’s Model of Adaptation through Occupation: a journey 76
Karen Lewis and Sharon James

8 Using the Canadian Model of Occupational Performance to reconfigure an integrated occupational therapy service 91
Siˆan Waygood, Margot Mason, Heather Hurst, Tamsin Fedden and Caroline Phelps

9 Dealing with the barriers to change whilst implementing the Canadian Model of Occupational Performance 106
Jane Walker and Gillian Thistlewood

10 Developing occupational therapy theory in Poland 120
Ania Pietrzak and Magdalena Loska

11 Using occupational therapy theory in Croatia 128
Andreja Bartolac

12 Personal reflections on understanding and using the Model of Human Occupation in practice 141
Sarah Cook

Section 3: Contemporary Discussions on the Use of Theory in Occupational Therapy Practice

13 Using occupational therapy theory within evidence-based practice 155
Carly Reagon

14 Occupational science and occupational therapy: a contemporary relationship 165
Jill Riley

15 Myths around using theory in occupational therapy practice 180
Alison Seymour, Gail Boniface and Louise Ingham

Index 189