In our OT work with individuals, there can be a feeling of futility. As there is a growing collective consciousness around what we, as OT professionals, experience day in and day out: The communities in which we live have such a profound impact on our health. And, we can fail individuals by focusing only on their individual choices—and not the larger driving forces of their lives.

I think this expanding view of health is why we see so much interest in community practice from students, new grads, and tired clinicians. Community practice does have a long history in occupational therapy, but currently very few clinicians find full-time work in this practice area. The authors of this course’s featured article, believe this may be in part to a lack of frameworks for community-based OT. So, today we’ll explore the framework they put forth and their call to “reimagine occupational therapy clients as communities.”

We're excited to welcome to the podcast Ryan Lavalley, PhD, OTR/L. Dr. Lavalley is the founder and primary lead of the Community Practice Lab at UNC School of Medicine.

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Re-imagining occupational therapy clients as communities: Presenting the community-centred practice framework. [ Ссылка ]

Timestamps:
00:00:00 Intro
00:03:06 Intro to OT’s role in community
00:03:44 Why the focus on community practice now?
00:04:34 What has already been written about community practice OT?
00:05:54 What was the intent of this paper?
00:06:03 What were their methods?
00:07:02 Presenting the Community Practice Framework
00:11:35 Intro to Ryan Lavalley
00:13:48 How did Ryan became interested in community-based OT
00:21:17 What is the community practice lab?
00:26:43 What other community practice jobs exist?
00:30:14 Why should all OTs be thinking about the community-level?
00:34:35 Article impressions
00:38:38 How do you describe community-based OT?
00:44:11 What are the magic tools that community practice OTs bring to the table?
00:48:39 What future full-time jobs do you see for community-based OTs?

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