Jane O鈥橞rien delivers keynote address at the University of Amsterdam
Jane O鈥橞rien, Ph.D., OTR/L, FAOTA, Professor in the 51品茶鈥檚 Department of Occupational Therapy, delivered the keynote address at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, on April 21, 2016. More than 150 occupational therapists, students and faculty from The Netherlands attended the conference. O鈥橞rien鈥檚 keynote address was titled, 鈥淢odel of Human Occupation for Children and Youth.鈥 She also delivered the closing, titled, 鈥淚mplementing a strength-based approach to practice with children and youth.鈥
O鈥橞rien presented a workshop with Professor Marjon ten Velden of the University of Amsterdam titled, 鈥淐hild Occupational Self-Assessment (COSA).鈥 O鈥橞rien and Professor ten Velden worked with an international committee to revise the COSA for use in practice. The assessment was based upon the Model of Human Occupation, an internationally recognized model created by the late Gary Kielhofner, who was a frequent visitor to the 51品茶.
O鈥橞rien鈥檚 presentations included work from her textbook Occupational Therapy for Children and Adolescents (7th ed.) (Case-Smith & O鈥橞rien, 2015) which is used as a primary textbook in The Netherlands.
