Vocational teachers continuously tailor their teaching to changes in occupational practice, technologies, and student diversity. Teacher professional development is crucial for dealing with these changes. A longitudinal study was conducted to study the professional development activities of vocational …

Background: Following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, telerehabilitation (TR) has been expanding to address the challenges and risks of in-person delivery. It is likely that a level of TR delivery will continue after the pandemic because of its advantages, such as reducing geographical barriers to …

Positive workplace design: How to stimulate social well-being at the office?

AIMS: The Canadian Occupational Performance Measure (COPM) can be used to support children to clarify their needs themselves. However, for pediatric occupational therapists it is not sufficiently clear how to effectively use the COPM with children from 8 years of age.This study aimed to formulate specific …

AIMS: Performing the Perceive, Recall, Plan and Perform (PRPP)-Assessment, using video material of everyday life, seems sensible to lower the patient burden, enhance ecological validity, and provide care at a distance. However, receipt of adequate video material is not self-evident and assessing videos …

Children with special educational needs included in Austrian mainstream schools are provided with special educational support, which aim to create learning environments, that meet the children’s needs on an individual level. Little is known about what adjustments children with special educational needs …

Background: Smoking is an avoidable risk factor for diseases, impacting socioeconomic and health care systems globally. The meaning, purposes, and values related to continued smoking after being diagnosed with COPD have not yet been sufficiently explored from an occupational perspective. Gaining an understanding …

In het dagelijks leven ben je voortdurend, alleen en vaak met anderen, betrokken in activiteiten, ook als je ‘vrij’ bent en eigenlijk niets hoeft te doen. Alle activiteiten die mensen op een dag doen worden binnen ergotherapie ingedeeld in handelingsgebieden. In dit boek hanteren we de volgende handelingsgebieden: …

Dit hoofdstuk beschrijft het PEOP-model en het bijbehorende PEOP OT-procesmodel. Het PEOP-model benadrukt de noodzaak van het competent zijn in het dagelijks handelen om participatie en welzijn mogelijk te maken. In het PEOP-model zijn zowel de persoonlijke als de omgevingsfactoren belangrijk in het …

Purpose of the Session: Migration studies has seen a growing number of critical authors who over the last decade have participated in reflexive works critiquing the Eurocentric focus of migration studies and how this has historically contributed to problematic theories, categories, and terminologies. …