Advance for Occupational Therapists, January-June, 1997

File — Box: 23

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Series: This series contains writings that broadly cover occupational therapy practice. Here can be found a lengthy, multi-section syllabus from 1972 on the occupational therapy management of physical dysfunction (intended both for students and practitioners). Of note in this series is a bibliography of completed research in occupational therapy that covers the years ·1948-1983. Also in this series are a 1944 War Department publication on occupational therapy, a 1958 AOTA publication that delineates the functions of occupational therapists for all major diagnostic groups served, and a 1972 examination review book. This series also contains issues of the magazine Advance for Occupational Therapists dating from 1996-1998, with an index for 1997. This is a weekly publication containing feature articles that cover the range of clinical and professional issues faced by occupational therapists. Of particular interest in this series, are unpublished versions, including handwritten notes and revisions, of writings by Ruth Levine, the first chair of the Occupational Therapy department at TJU. The exact date of these writings is not known.