Management and Administration for the Ota: Leadership and Management Skills

This comprehensive resource is designed to equip occupational therapy assistant (OTA) students and new practitioners with the essential knowledge required for effective skills in management, administration, and leadership.

Using the American Occupational Therapy Association’s Occupational Therapy Practice Framework: Domain and Process 4th edition (OTPF-4) and aligned to the latest Accreditation Council for Occupational Therapy Education (ACOTA) Standards, this second edition provides invaluable guidance around the key areas, including:

• How changes in policy can impact upon the practice of occupational therapy
• The importance of leadership and advocacy for being an agent of change
• National requirements for credentialing and for licensure, certification or registration under state laws.
• Reimbursement systems
• The role of the OTA in promoting the distinct value of occupational therapy to the public, as well as other professionals, service providers, consumers, third-party payers, and regulatory bodies
• Documentation and quality improvement to ensure the OTA provides the highest quality of service
• The relationship between the OTA, the occupational therapist, and nonprofessional personnel
• The role, criteria, and components of the OTA in fieldwork education
• Communication skills, particularly in relation to the concept of health literacy and how it can be used to better understand a client and their context
• How the OTA can maintain high standards of responsible, ethical practice
• The role of scholarship and scholarly practice in assisting the OTA to articulate the distinct value of the profession

Including practical applications, case studies, and real-world examples throughout, and therefore encouraging the critical thinking and problem-solving skills that OTA’s need in the role, this second edition also includes new chapters on Cultural Humility, Emerging and Innovative Practice, and Quality Improvement. Each chapter showcases the unique insights from a range of clinicians, academicians, administrators, and managers, all ground in the latest evidence-based literature, research, theories, and best-practice in occupational therapy.

Comprehensive and user-friendly, Management and Administration for the OTA is an essential text for any student or new practitioner.

Accompanying podcasts are also available as Support Material via www.routledge.com/9781638221494

Karen Jacobs, EdD, OTR/L, CPE, FAOTA, is a clinical professor of occupational therapy and the program director of the online post-professional doctorate in occupational therapy program at Boston University. She currently works at Boston University and has expertise in the development and instruction of online graduate courses.

Karen earned a doctoral degree at the University of Massachusetts, a master of science degree from Boston University, and a bachelor of arts degree from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.

Karen is a past president and vice president of the American Occupational Therapy Association. She is a 2005 recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship to the University of Akureyri in Akuryeri, Iceland. Karen also received the 2009 Award of Merit from the Canadian Association of Occupational Therapists; the Award of Merit from the American Occupational Therapy Association in 2003; and the 2011 Eleanor Clarke Slagle Lectureship Award. The title of her Slagle Lecture was ＂PromOTing Occupational Therapy: Words, Images, and Action.＂

In addition to being an occupational therapist, Karen is also a certified professional ergonomist and the founding editor-in-chief of the international, interprofessional journal WORK: A Journal of Prevention, Assessment & Rehabilitation (IOS Press, The Netherlands) and is a consultant in ergonomics, marketing, and entrepreneurship.