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
Chapter 37. Occupational Therapy Knowledge: From Practice to Theory
Chapter 38. Neuroscience and Occupational Therapy: Vital Connections
Chapter 39: The 1980s: Discussion Questions and Learning Activities
Part V. The 1990s: Occupation Revisited
Chapter 40. Historical Context of the 1990s
Chapter 41. Resilience and Human Adaptability: Who Rises Above Adversity?
Chapter 42. Occupation Embedded in a Real Life: Interweaving Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy
Chapter 43. Building Inclusive Community: A Challenge for Occupational Therapy
Chapter 44. Occupation: Purposefulness and Meaningfulness as Therapeutic Mechanisms
Chapter 45. Why the Profession of Occupational Therapy Will Flourish in the 21st Century
Chapter 46. Uniting Practice and Theory in an Occupational Framework
Chapter 47. Defining Lives: Occupation as Identity: An Essay on Competence, Coherence, and the Creation of Meaning
Chapter 48. The 1990s: Discussion Questions and Learning Activities
Part VI. The 2000s: The New Millennium
Chapter 49. Historical Context of the 2000s
Chapter 50. Our Mandate for the New Millennium: Evidence-Based Practice
Chapter 51. The Sensation of Everday Life: Empirical, Theoretical, and Pragmatic Considerations
Chapter 52. Chaotic Occupational Therapy: Collective Wisdom for a Complex Profession
Chapter 53. Time, Space, and the Kaleidoscopes of Occupation
Chapter 54. Embracing Our Ethos, Reclaiming Our Heart
Chapter 55. The World of Everyday Occupation: Real People, Real Lives
Chapter 56. Becoming Innovators in an Era of Hyperchange
Chapter 57. Embracing Ambiguity: Facing the Challenge of Measurement
Chapter 58. Reclaiming Our Heritage: Connecting the Founding Vision to the Centennial Vision
Chapter 59. What's Going on Here? Deconstructing the Interactive Encounter
Chapter 60. The 2000s: Discussion Questions and Learning Activities
Part VII. The 2010s: Connecting the Dots to the Centennial
Chapter 61. Historical Context of the 2010s
Chapter 62. Accentuate the Positive: Reflections on Empathic Interpersonal Interaction
Chapter 63. PromOTing Occupational Therapy: Words, Images, and Actions
Chapter 64. A Fork in the Road: An Occupational Hazard?
Chapter 65. Education as Engine
Chapter 66. A Career in Inquiry
Chapter 67. The Prepared Mind
Chapter 68. The 2010s: Discussion Questions and Learning Activities
Appendixes
Appendix A. Short Biographies of the Eleanor Clarke Slagle Lecturers, 1955–2016
Appendix B. Bibliography: U.S. and World History
Appendix C. Bibliography: History of Occupational Therapy in the United States
Appendix D. Bibliography: History of Occupational Therapy Around the World
Appendix E. Presidents of the American Occupational Therapy Association
978-1-56900-394-7, 933 pages, 2017