Journal article
Understanding Professional Behavior: Experiences of Occupational Therapy Students in Mental Health Settings
American Journal of Occupational Therapy, Vol.51(8), pp.686-692
1997
Abstract
A phenomenological study explored occupational therapy students' experiences in psychiatric fieldwork. Of particular interest was students' understanding of professional behavior toward persons who use mental health services. Data were gathered from 16 informants via in-depth interviews and participant observation on multiple occasions during fieldwork affiliations. Emerging from informants' views of professional behavior were difficulties in their reconciling conflicting expectations with regard to emotional and social distance from persons who use mental health services. Additionally, the informants experienced a need to assume authority and maintain control in their dealings with service users. Students' encounters with such issues during fieldwork are indicative of challenges they may face as health professionals in a changing climate of mental health services. These data are stimuli for reflection on features of professional relationships with service users, particular in response to expectations of persons with disabilities regarding control over their lives.
Details
- Title
- Understanding Professional Behavior: Experiences of Occupational Therapy Students in Mental Health Settings
- Authors
- Michael Lyons (Author) - University of Newcastle
- Publication details
- American Journal of Occupational Therapy, Vol.51(8), pp.686-692
- Publisher
- American Occupational Therapy Association, Inc.
- Date published
- 1997
- DOI
- 10.5014/ajot.51.8.686
- ISSN
- 0272-9490
- Copyright note
- Copyright © 1997 American Occupational Therapy Assocation Inc. Reproduced with permission of the publisher.
- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Health and Sport Sciences - Legacy
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99450283102621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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