Relive our 2011 Conference
One of the most popular sessions from our Annual Conference this year in Brighton was Professor Mary Law's opening plenary on "Occupation, evidence and outcomes: The future of our profession".
In this she told delegates that the goal of occupational therapy is to enable people to engage in the occupation that they want to do, need to do and are expected to do in everyday life.
Recognising that these are challenging times for health, social care and education, Professor Law, from McMaster University and lead author of the Canadian Occupational Performance Measure (COPM), urged OTs to ‘think carefully and clearly about the effect not having occupational therapy would have on our citizens’.
While people need occupational therapy now more than ever, she said, our systems are increasingly complex, throwing up many barriers and challenges to service provision. But, she said, occupational therapy at its best ‘understands and celebrates this complexity’.
For those who missed out on hearing Mary Law speak in Brighton, or for those who want to listen to it again, you can now do so here.
You can also relive the 2011 Annual Conference through the discussions that surrounded the conference on Twitter, by reading our picks from the conference on Storify.
