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Research of the Competence of Occupational Therapists

Nowadays, thanks to medical advances, the wounded mortality reduces, make patients tide over the crucial moment of life and extend the lifespan, and inability in the work or life. Because the pressure and interpersonal relationships are estranged, the numbers of people who suffer from psychological disease are rising continuously as well as accompanied by the failing of the physical and psychological function and social adaptive capacity. In addition, children¡¦s obstacles of body movement, the development of mind, life, study, interpersonal relationships and behavior will influence their development and learning ability. Those who have obstacles of physical and psychological and social function must rely on the treatment of occupational therapists to get back to normal and independent life.
The education of the occupational therapists is the same, but the work performances of the different occupational therapists let the patients, relatives, and colleagues feel differently. Why is the evaluation of the different occupational therapists received so different? According to human resource management, this kind of difference may come from different occupational therapists possess different competence. This research adopts the critical incident method and distinguishes the differences of the occupational therapists who perform excellently and others who perform generally. It compares two groups the difference of occupational therapists, and then learn what the competence that outstanding occupational therapists possess.
The result of study finds the specialties of outstanding occupational therapists most tally with the specialties that the literature mentions. The occupational therapists have deeper involved in treating, including attention of the motive of the function rebuild, paying attention to the construction of treating atmosphere, the acumen of the case problem and dealing with voluntarily, considering the most greatly of case interests, cordial participation of daily life and social experiences.
The following are conclusions of the research. To improve the performance of the general occupational therapists can refer to the performance of the outstanding occupational therapists. The differences of the occupational therapists in different fields are supposed to be the differences of the cases and the expectation of the relatives. In addition, occupational therapists and relatives of the case are the teacher and friend's relationship; it has a delicate change in different field categories even more.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0825109-034045
Date25 August 2009
CreatorsChung, Chun-yu
ContributorsI-Heng Chen, Chin-Kang Jen, Jen-Jsung Huang
PublisherNSYSU
Source SetsNSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive
LanguageCholon
Detected LanguageEnglish
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Formatapplication/pdf
Sourcehttp://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0825109-034045
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