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14 OTnews November 2019
A new Evidence Spotlight from RCOT has been published,
which provides some key reading, selected from the evidence
base, about homelessness. It is intended to provide an
introduction to the topic, and each paper is listed under
a broad subject heading, alongside related CPD activities
applicable to the pillars of the RCOT Career Development
Framework (www.rcot.co.uk/cpd-rcot).
Of particular interest to occupational therapists, students
and practice educators, the articles cover a number of areas,
from occupation-based practices for people experiencing
or at risk of homelessness and the lived experience of
homeless/recently housed people, through to emergency
department presentations and the transition to becoming
housed.
Visit: www.rcot.co.uk/files/evidence-spotlight-
homelessness-october-2019.
BJOT’s December issue opens with an editorial by Spencer et al,
‘When occupational therapy and magic collide’, focusing on the social
prescribing of arts and crafts for wellbeing, and specifically discussing
how workshops in which participants learn and perform magic tricks
and illusion can help communication and social skills, regardless of age
or ability.
Research published this month includes Chung’s examination of
homecare enablement to support transitions in life due to dementia,
which collected interviews with older people with dementia and their
carers.
Prescott et al collected and analysed data from clients attending
rehabilitation after acquired brain injury, with the goal of examining
differences between the client-centredness of goal setting, verbal
participation in goal setting discussions and the goal outcomes across
clients with acquired brain injury who had different levels of self-
awareness.
Starting from the fact that client-centred practice was introduced into
occupational therapy programmes in Tanzania from Canada, Mshanga
and colleagues looked at occupational therapists’ perspectives on its
implementation, to see how this is compromised by constraints and
considering additional approaches.
Prat et al’s study validates the use of the Spanish version of the
Engagement in Meaningful Activities Survey in people with serious
mental illness.
Stone and colleagues assessed 15 participants following stroke
using the Schenkenberg Line Bisection Test. Their preliminary
exploration of the revised scoring methods for the Schenkenberg Line
Bisection Test found it to demonstrate high reliability and that scoring
can be completed relatively quickly in clinical practice.
Murray et al, in an Australian study, examined interview data from
occupational therapists working in an acute occupational therapy
department at a specialist paediatric hospital in metropolitan Australia
that is undergoing a service transformation to explore occupational
therapists’ current knowledge and skills regarding contemporary
occupational therapy philosophy and practice, and their attitudes and
motivation towards a service transformation.
Finally, in a practice analysis, Easthaugh and colleagues considered
the wide variation in models of service delivery of pulmonary
rehabilitation, considering how occupational therapists are ideally placed
to lead and develop programmes.
All articles are published online at the journal’s OnlineFirst page as
soon as ready. Visit BJOT via your member login at www.rcot.co.uk
to browse these and other recent publications in full (please go via the
RCOT web site links to the journal).
We have a call for articles submissions on the topic of cancer
rehabilitation, guest edited by Kathleen Lyons at Dartmouth, US. For
more information: http://journals.sagepub.com/page/bjo/call-for-papers.
RCOT publishes new Evidence
Spotlight on homelessness
RCOT Blogs
Alison Keir, RCOT Policy Officer for Scotland has celebrated
RCOT Occupational Therapy Week 2019 by reflecting on her
career journey and why she is proud to be an occupational
therapist.
Thinking about this year’s theme of Small Change, Big
Impact, Alison’s blog looks at what this means to her, the
pathways her own career has taken and what she is currently
doing to advocate for the profession in her role as RCOT
policy officer for Scotland.
To read this, and other published blogs, visit: www.rcot.
co.uk/blog.
CONNECT: AHPs in Research
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allied health professionals to subscribe to its quarterly
newsletter CONNECT: AHPs in Research. Containing a mix of
research news, articles, research opportunities and a learning
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