Edited by René Padilla, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA, LMHP, and Yolanda Griffiths, OTD, OTR/L, FAOTA
As its title suggests, this book contains a true legacy in the tradition of one of the greatest occupational therapy pioneers, Eleanor Clarke Slagle (1876–1942). The American Occupational Therapy Association recognized this pioneer’s influence by establishing its highest award in her honor in 1953. This compilation presents the 53 Eleanor Clarke Slagle Lectures, and while each stands firm as its own solid example of scholarship, when read sequentially they form a unique record of the steady progress and increasing sophistication of occupational therapy. The discussion begins with the original Adolph Meyer address honoring Slagle and is completed by linking key messages of the lectures to occupational therapy’s future. The lectures contain history, leadership, mentoring, encouragement, admonishment, philosophy, and practical guidance. Above all, they reflect Slagle’s vision of the integration of theory, philosophy, and spirit from which occupational therapy practitioners, educators, and students can draw inspiration.
This reference has been organized according to decades, and each section is preceded by discussions of what was happening in the world and the United States at that time. After this historical accounting, the lectures for the decade are reprinted. Each section closes with a series of suggested learning activities and classroom discussion questions. Although a broader historical and social context is not always evident within individual lectures, it becomes apparent when the whole body of work of each honored lecturer is considered. Appendixes include biographies and bibliographies for each lecturer, as well as bibliographies of world and U.S. history and also occupational therapy’s history, and a list of AOTA presidents.
Contents
Part I. The 1950s: Launching a New Tradition
Chapter 1. Setting the Stage--Address in Honor of Eleanor Clarke Slagle
Chapter 2. Historical Context of the 1950s
Chapter 3. Equipment Designed for Occupational Therapy
Chapter 4. Therapist Into Administrator: Ten Inspiring Years
Chapter 5. Powerful Levers in Little Common Things
Chapter 6. Every One Counts
Chapter 7. The Essentials of Work Evaluation
Chapter 8. The 1950s: Discussion Questions and Learning Activities
Part II. The 1960s: Theoretical Flourishing
Chapter 9. Historical Context of the 1960s
Chapter 10. Devices: Development and Direction
Chapter 11. Occupational Therapy Can Be One of the Great Ideas of 20th-Century Medicine
Chapter 12. The Challenge of the Sixties
Chapter 13. The Development of Perceptual–Motor Abilities: A Theoretical Basis for Treatment of Dysfunction
Chapter 14. Learning as a Growth Process: A Conceptual Framework for Professional Education
Chapter 15. Authentic Occupational Therapy
Chapter 16. Professional Responsibility in Times of Change
Chapter 17. Facilitating Growth and Development: The Promise of Occupational Therapy
Chapter 18. The 1960s: Discussion Questions and Learning Activities
Part III. The 1970s: Growth and Expansion
Chapter 19. Historical Context of the 1970s
Chapter 20. The Occupational Therapist in Prevention Programs
Chapter 21. Occupational Therapy: A Model for the Future
Chapter 22. Academic Occupational Therapy: A Career Specialty
Chapter 23. Occupational Therapy: Realization to Activation
Chapter 24. Behavior, Bias, and the Limbic System
Chapter 25. Touch With Care or a Caring Touch?
Chapter 26. Toward a Science of Adaptive Responses
Chapter 27. Remember?
Chapter 28: The 1970s: Discussion Questions and Learning Activities
Part IV. The 1980s: Professional Identity
Chapter 29. Historical Context of the 1980s
Chapter 30. Occupational Therapists Put Care in the Health System
Chapter 31. Occupational Therapy Revisited: A Paraphrastic Journey
Chapter 32. Clinical Reasoning: The Ethics, Science, and Art
Chapter 33. Transformation of a Profession
Chapter 34. A Monistic or a Pluralistic Approach to Professional Identity?
Chapter 35. Tools of Practice: Heritage or Baggage?
Chapter 36. Activity: Occupational Therapy's Treatment Method