Jennifer Creek & Anne Lawson-Porter 
Contemporary Issues in Occupational Therapy [PDF ebook] 
Reasoning and Reflection

About the Editors vii

Contributors ix

Foreword by Elizabeth White xi

Preface xiii

Acknowledgements xv

Introduction xvii
Jennifer Creek and Anne Lawson-Porter

1 The thinking therapist 1
Jennifer Creek

2 The romance of occupational therapy 23
Clare Hocking

3 Occupation for occupational therapists: how far will we go? 41
Clare Hocking and Ellen Nicholson

4 A psychoanalytic discourse in occupational therapy 55
Lindsey Nicholls

5 What’s going on? Finding an explanation for what we do 87
Rosemary Caulton and Rayna Dickson

6 When service users’ views vary from those of their carers 115
Elizabeth White

7 Engaging the reluctant client 127
Jennifer Creek

8 Exploring the facets of clinical reasoning 143
Kit Sinclair

9 Knowing more than we can say 161
Priscilla Harries

10 Making sense of research utilisation 189
Katrina Bannigan

Index 217

Jennifer Creek has been an occupational therapist since 1970, when she qualified from the London School of Occupational Therapy. She has worked in the fi elds of adult mental health, adult learning disabilities, mental health promotion and occupational therapy education. She is the editor of a textbook Occupational Therapy and Mental Health, which is about to go into its fourth edition. This is her second edited collection of essays. She is currently working with the European Network of Occupational Therapists in Higher Education terminology project group to produce a conceptual framework for occupational therapy in Europe.
Anne Lawson-Porter qualifi ed as an occupational therapist in 1974 and worked in the fi eld of physical dysfunction for the fi rst ten years of her career in both health and social care settings. Her next move was into occupational therapy education; she has taught occupational therapists at both undergraduate and post-graduate levels. Her passion for occupational therapy was renewed in the move to her current post as Head of Education for the College of Occupational Therapists where she continues to work hard to infl uence and develop learning opportunities for all members of the profession.