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Social participation naturally occurs in everyday life in combination with daily occupations, such as when people interact while eating, playing, carpooling, and working. Throughout ""Social Participation in Occupational Contexts: In Schools, Clinics and Communities"", Professors Marilyn B. Cole and Mary V. Donohue explain how social interactions and environments can facilitate occupational performance or can create barriers to participation from an occupational perspective. In Sections One and Two of the text, an overview of theoretical foundations of social learning, social capital, and social development from childhood to maturity provides a backdrop for a clearer understanding of the interplay of occupation and socialization in natural community groups. Also covered are opportunities for development of social participation in professional education that illustrate theory application in classroom, fieldwork, and community settings across the lifespan. Parameters for evaluating social participation situations, contexts, skills, and norms are discussed in Section Three, along with a variety of tools relevant to the assessment of social participation from client and contextual perspectives, including critiques of these evaluation instruments. Lastly, in Section Four, occupational intervention approaches designed to foster social skills and remove barriers will enable practitioners and students to facilitate social participation and development across the lifespan. Following are the features: Occupational focus is emphasized as an extension of ICF and Practice Framework; Role playing scenarios are provided as participatory learning techniques; Thought provoking questions and learning activities; Reviews of theories from several fields are applied to occupational contexts; Evaluations and interventions to address social participation issues are provided; and, International sources in the theory and research of the concept of social participation are used. Whether you're an occupational therapy practitioner across lifespan populations, student, health professional, teacher, or community group leader, the benefits and knowledge you'll acquire from ""Social Participation in Occupational Contexts: In Schools, Clinics and Communities"" are endless.

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The structural organization of the information and the physical layout of this book makes browsing and finding information easy. Good pictures and the numerous summary tables support well-written content that lightens the reading experience and makes main idea retrieval very easy. In sum, Social Participation in Occupational Contexts would be an invaluable resource in academic contexts and worthwhile to be given consideration by others interested in social participation. <br><br>-Josiane Caron Santha, Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy

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Marilyn B. Cole, MS, OTR/L, FAOTA, retired from Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Conn., after 25 years of full-time teaching and became a Professor Emerita of Occupational Therapy in the fall of 2007. Her first book, Group Dynamics in Occupational Therapy, published by SLACK (1993, 1998), is now in its third edition (2005). In 2008, Professor Cole co-authored a second textbook, Applied Theories in Occupational Therapy, with colleague Roseanna Tufano, and has recently contributed a chapter titled ""Retirement, Volunteering, and End of Life Issues"" to Meriano and Latella's Occupational Therapy Interventions, (2008, SLACK); a chapter titled ""Theories of Aging"" to Coppola, Elliott, and Toto's Strategies to Advance Gerontology Excellence (2008); a chapter on ""Client Centered Groups"" for Creek and Lougher's Occupational Therapy and Mental Health, 4th Ed . (2008); and a chapter titled ""Occupational Therapy Theory Development and Organization"" for Sladyk, Jacobs, and MacRae's Occupational Therapy Essentials for Clinical Competence (2010, SLACK). Current activities include working on a survey research study on retirement and volunteering with colleague Karen Macdonald, pursuit of fiction writing, and joining co-author Mary Donohue in promoting issues of social participation and occupation at professional conferences. At home in Connecticut or Freeport, Bahamas, Professor Cole and her husband, Martin Schiraldi, enjoy traveling, cruising, skiing, sailing, and scuba diving. Mary V. Donohue, PhD, OTL, FAOTA, a retired clinical professor from New York University and currently Clinical Professor at Stony Brook University, Department of Occupational Therapy, specializes in psychosocial mental health. She worked for 13 years at Hillside Psychiatric Hospital, leading activity therapy rehabilitation groups. She is co-editor of the journal, Occupational Therapy in Mental Health, assisting guest editors in publishing books, and has recently contributed a chapter, ""Evaluation of Social Participation,"" to Sladyk, Jacobs, and MacRae's text Occupational Therapy Essentials for Clinical Competence (2010, SLACK). Dr. Donohue has developed the Social Profile assessment tool, and her research articles using the Profile can be found on the Web. She is Metro NYD Research Co-Chair and NYSOTA Research Representative, providing grants for occupational therapy research projects, consulting with research applicants, and presenting Research Forums with grant awardees. She serves on the MNYD Mental Health Task Force, helping to plan events for OT's Walk with NAMI. She also serves on the State Board for Occupational Therapy of the New York State Board of Education for adjudicating licensure issues. Dr. Donohue has served as Commodore of New York Sailing Club, an educational, safety-oriented, and social club, pairing skippers and crew.

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