OTA2013 Short Oral Abstract: Occupation-focused practice: From enigma to action

Occupation-focused practice: From enigma to action Brock Cook1, Robert Pereira 0 ,2, Matthew Molineux0 ,3 1Townsville Hospital, Townsville, Queensland, Australia, 2Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 3Griffith University, Southport, Queensland, Australia Introduction While multidisciplinary team members share some knowledge and skills, it is important to recognise the unique contribution of each profession. A team-based […]

Prof Matthew Molineux: It’s all About Occupation

Earlier in the year I organised for Professor Matthew Molineux to do an in-service for the Townsville District MH OT’s via Video conference on Occupation Based Practice. Quite a number of OT’s here were taken with the messages he was delivering and at the end he mentioned that he would be more then happy to […]

Student Occupation Based Practice Workshop

In August Aidan Parsons and myself contributed to a 2 day MH module at our local university by presenting a 3hr Occupation Based Practice Workshop to the 4 year OT students. Although the group was very quiet to start with it was fantastic to see the change in thinking that occurred during this 3hr time […]

Social Media in the Contemporary CPD Climate

Here is the poster that myself, Merrolee Penman, Anita Hamilton, Leonora Coolhaas, Trina Phuah & Allison Sullivan developed for OTA2013. The poster thus far has received some interest from external media which has been lovely. Feel free to have a read of these here: http://www.cpdme.com/blog/1384889 http://www.watchlistnews.com/2013/08/23/occupational-therapy-professor-promotes-academics-through-social-media/ I take this external interest in our work as […]

OTA2013

So from July 24-26th I was fortunate enough to attend my very first Occupational Therapy National Conference in Adelaide. Not only was I attending this conference but I was also honoured to be asked at last years QLD State conference if I would join the Senior Management Team as the conference Social Media Coordinator. I’m […]