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Ot-Pep: Development Of A Professional Education Paradigm For Occupational Therapy, Christine E. Wright
Ot-Pep: Development Of A Professional Education Paradigm For Occupational Therapy, Christine E. Wright
The Open Journal of Occupational Therapy
This study aims to determine the fundamental tenets that define the occupational therapy education process, and to develop a professional education paradigm that corresponds to those principles. Interpretive phenomenology with Heideggerian hermeneutic philosophy was used to explicate the paradigmatic themes embedded in the occupational therapy body of knowledge. The results yielded the Occupational Therapy Professional Education Paradigm (OT-PEP), which is organized around three core concepts: Adaptive thinking, reflection, and creation of meaning. The OT-PEP is important to occupational therapy because it addresses the elements of the education process that are reflective of the philosophical underpinnings of the profession and brings …