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Sunseting account after two years (July 2021-July 2023) of ranting and raving about occupational therapy histories around world. Too many comebacks!
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04-07-2021 14:24:57
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Royal College of Occupational Therapists
We're RCOT. Championing #OccupationalTherapy and helping achieve life-changing breakthroughs for our members, the people they support and society as a whole.
Keir Harding
Occupational Therapist Providing training, consultancy & alternatives to long term hospitalisation for those who self harm and are recurrently suicidal
Sue Parkinson
Model of Human Occupation geek - MOHOST, Recovery through Activity, MOHO-ExpLOR, Formulation of plans & goals in Occupational Therapy (she/her)
Alice Hortop
Professional Lead, Occupational Therapy Apprenticeship Programme Lead, Snr Lecturer, UWE. (Own views) Pronouns she/her
Bill Wong, OTD, OTR/L
OTR/L, OTD, 3x TEDx Talker, TEDx organizer, #actuallyautistic, OTA/OT program adjunct faculty, AOTA Autism CoP Co-Facilitator
Thanks Sue Parkinson for sharing wise words about expressing values through positive action. You're right - lots of resources at worldvaluesday.com
Fascinating story Glenside Hospital Museum
Love the personal connections across time and the Atlantic!
Retweeting Dr Jenny Ceolta-Smith (PhD OT) Open Letter to Royal College of Occupational Therapists
Council. Link for signatures too.
Why? Seems to embody themes #AlliedHealthProfessions
Guide about addressing health inequalities launched yesterday by Linda Hindle OBE
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Historic initiative Dr Jenny Ceolta-Smith (PhD OT)
It's calling for Council Royal College of Occupational Therapists to take the lead, to put the principles and values of #OccupationalTherapy into practice in solidarity against harms to #DisabledPeople .
Thanks for continuing long tradition of activism and advocacy.
A landmark day. Success today, with the first #AdvancedCarePlanning Day in UK.
It's crucial to plan for the end of life. Check out resources.
Noticed all our signposting today!
Can't resist finishing with a flourish - Evelyn Mary Macdonald - she envisioned the concept of #AlliedHealthProfessions in the 1950s.
Read her BLitt (Oxford) thesis Oxford Brookes Special Collections and Archive radar.brookes.ac.uk/radar/items/e8…
Signposting webinars for #AlliedHealthProfessions
Love listening and action: continued professional development in a diverse role.
No, we didn't know know this.
Thanks Alex Fisher for sharing significant research for #HuntingtonsDisease Awareness Month.
Congratulations! Stunning contributions to #OccupationalTherapy for 35 years.
Creativity: so much heritage and future in #CreativeHealth