Canadian Association of Occupational Therapists

Occupational Therapy
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     Volume Two • Issue Five
     September / October • 2000

Table of Contents

Update on the Insurance Lobby
CAOT's Darene Toal-Sullivan describes what we've learned and what we have to do in order to obtain coverage of occupational therapy under extended health benefits.

Evidence-based practice
Reviewing Qualitative Research
Column Editor Dr. Laurie Snider describes the essentials of a qualitative literature review and summarizes McMaster's Chronic Pain Review.

Watch your practice
Assertive Community Treatment Risk, Challenge and Opportunity
Community work, at all hours, with the reduced supervision, creates a number of challenges for the occupational therapist.  Lucy Ann Kubina describes the risks, challenges and opportunities that arise in this growing area of practice.

Are you listening?
External Challenges in Work Rehabilitation Practice: Enabling Return to Work through a Client-Centred Approach
Ph.D. candidate Lynn Shaw suggests a solution to the imposed rules for rehabilitation which are threatening our return to work practices.

Put it to practice
Students Enable Clinicians' Understanding of the Occupational Performance Process Model
In 1999, Kevin Harrison and six classmates helped a busy occupational therapy department to apply the principles of Enabling Occupation to their practice.

Connecting Literacy with Health
Important reminders regarding our consumer information.  Is your information understood by erveryone?

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