Occupational Therapy Across Cultural Boundaries - 9781138977389

Taylor & Francis

Occupational Therapy Across Cultural BoundariesTheory, Practice and Professional Development\nAuthor(s): Susan Cook Merrill\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138977389, 978-1138977389\nSynopsis\nThis fascinating book examines the concept of culture from a unique perspective--that of individual occupational therapists who have worked in environments very different from those in which they were educated or had worked previously. In Occupational Therapy Across Cultural Boundaries, six occupational therapists relate their experiences living and working in a foreign culture. Each author describes the daily demands placed upon her through immersion into a different way of life and discusses the environmental challenges she had to overcome to be able to live and work successfully. Many of the cultural differences the authors faced forced them to reassess and reconstruct their most basic assumptions of both personal and .