This professionally challenging volume--focusing on the performance and status of Certified Occupational Therapy Assistants (COTAs)--serves as a basis for reexamination and redefinition of the relationship between occupational therapists and assistants. Experts offer constructive possibilities for resolving some of the ongoing conflicts about the appropriate functions and education of COTAs and promote examination of the appropriate levels of function and education for the occupational therapist. The selected topics, chosen for their value and relevance to all occupational therapists--OTRs, COTAs, clinicians, and academicians--address the administrative issues regarding efficient use of COTAs and opportunities for their career development and job satisfaction; models of COTA practice described by COTAs who developed and implemented them within the framework of their jobs; and issues of concern to COTAs primarily as expressed by COTAs, with proposals and strategies for their resolution.
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Contents
Career Ladder Development of Certified Occupational Therapy Assistants
Supervision of the Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant: Developing a Knowledge Base and Strategy
Calculating Cost Effectiveness With the Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant
Designing Job Enrichment Projects
Certified Occupational Therapy Assistants and Microcomputers
Wheelchair Clinics Work
Splinting Design and Fabrication in Physical Disabilities: A Splinting Assistance Program
The Autosyringe Backpack for Children With Cancer: A Device That Permits Mobility
Toy Adaptations in Pediatrics
Occupational Therapy and Low Vision Rehabilitation
The Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant as an Activity Director
A Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant's Contributions to a Substance Abuse Treatment Program
Role Delineation of the Registered Occupational Therapist and the Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant in Child Psychiatry
The Roles of the Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant and the Registered Occupational Therapist in Adult Psychiatry
Incorporating Structured Learning Therapy Into Occupational Therapy Treatment of Chronic Psychiatric Patients
Job Search Skills for Unemployed Psychiatric Patients
Strategies for Resolution on Intraprofessional Conflict Related to the Role of the Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant
Mysticism and Skepticism: Obstacles to the Culturalization of the Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant
Certified Occupational Therapy Assistants: Preparation for Change
Some Messages for the COTA on Image, Imagery, and Imagination
Thoughts on Leadership: Certified Occupational Therapy Assistants: Reflections on Their Thirtieth Anniversary
