Major Themes in Occupational Therapy: A Content Analysis of the Eleanor Clarke Slagle Lectures,1955

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This article presents a content analysis of 26 Slagle lectures, representing 30 years. Lectures were analyzed for primary, secondary, and tertiary themes, and eight recurrent themes were identified: practice, professionalism, education, philosophy/ideology, theory, research, marketing, and history. Implications of these findings for role definition and professional status are addressed.

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history of occupational therapy professional image professional role delineation

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Major Themes in Occupational Therapy: A Content Analysis of the Eleanor Clarke Slagle Lectures,1955–1985

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