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| Author(s): | S. Rodger and J. Ziviani (Eds.) |
| Publisher: | Blackwell Publishing |
| ISBN: | 1405124563 |
| Format: | softback |
| 303pp | |
| Price: | £29.99 |
| Review Date: | 29 September 2006 |
| Review: | Here the editors have brought together contributors to examine children’s roles, their occupations and the skills they need to participate in society with the aim of enabling occupational therapists and childhood professionals understand how to optimize the participation of children in the environments that they encounter. There are two sections to the book. The first looks at children’s roles and occupations in contemporary society as a whole, examining personal and environmental factors on children’s activities and participation. Here there are chapters on: families, environmental influences, schools and community, and children’s use of occupational time. The second part focuses on childhood as a period of development and skills acquisition. It looks specifically at the acquisition of skills needed for engagement in occupations required of children’s occupational roles. Chapters cover communication and social skills, developing as a player, managing children’s self-care needs, the transition to school, student participation in the classroom and physical activity at school as well as beyond the school grounds. |