COTECENOTHE 2016 GALWAY MIEKE CHRISTINE 15 19 OF

COTEC-ENOTHE 2016 GALWAY MIEKE, CHRISTINE, 15 -19 OF BARBARA, EDITH, BETTINA JUNE RIANNE, CONNIE, EVA,

CONTENT • General information • Key messages • Zuyd presentations • Inspirations & highlights

GENERAL INFORMATION General info Around 1000 participants from all the continents – 45 countries OT educators, researchers, practitioners, students BUT also other disciplines – medical doctors, psychologies, design 3 new Board members: ENOTHE- Soemitro, Ursula, Panayiotis COTEC– Eva Denysiuk!!! Next congress: 2017 ENOTHE Zagreb 2018 ENOTHE Portugal 2019 ENOTHE Greece 2020 COTEC-ENOTHE Prague

KEY MESSAGES • Society challenges and identity – – Call for doing/action – learning by doing Action-research-education Occupation-based social transformation New directions in the field of • Friendly environments e. g. 4 dementia • Technology & e-health • EBP from practitioners’ perspective • Education philosophy (learning by doing/ project placements/ role EP) • Connect research-education-practiceinnovation-users • OT education - research – practice – Increase of PAR – user involvement – OT in school / family context – OS – implementation of knowledge in OT curriculum – students need understanding of basic principles of occupation in relation to – role, choices, meaning, development, … – Lifestyle matters – national UK study – Communities of practice in education – learning by doing with users

ZUYD PRESENTATIONS • Oral/workshop – Barbara: • Social Inclusion & Citizen participation – Think Tank • Parent’s role – Connie: • Assessment in School-based OT practice – Rianne & Edith • Contribution of OT to AT research – Rianne: • LUDI symposium (play for children with disabilities) – Eva: • Health literacy – Christine: • Experiences on role emerging placements – Bettina: • International case comparison • Poster – Barbara: Impact of environment on participation by autism – Mieke: Positive health

INDIVIDUAL HIGHLIGHTS (BARBARA) • New book: Occupation-based approaches for social inclusion (April 2017) • Think-tank: Social inclusion – Action-research-education – in co-creation with users and larger communities – Increase of scholarly work in the area of School context and family life – Increase use of social media – education – practice - research • A New Evidence-Based Practice Model for Occupational Therapy http: //www. pugetsound. edu/files/resour ces/3537_Research%20 Pyramid%20( web)-12. pdf

INDIVIDUAL HIGHLIGHTS (MIEKE) – three fold balancing (Freidson): professionalism, consumerism, managerialism and how OT’s and their clients can handle this – Education – action – research (Salvador Algado) – Practice theory approach, approach to understand the social world through the patterns of activity that constitutes social life (Jennifer Creek) – New word for me: re-ablement as an added value of OT(Marion Walker) • I felt in different situations the worries of the OT’s about their identity • The role of embodied reflexivity (Kinsella, Katz), more deepen than therapeutic use of self • Integrate the occupational science knowledge in everything you do, like you use the medical and psychosocial theories in planning your intervention!

INDIVIDUAL HIGHLIGHTS (BETTINA) Presentation from Farzaneh Yazdani: “Doing is the mediator fullfilling the needs for being, becoming and belonging” Presentation from Jennifer Creek: she discuss the knowledge gap of our basics (occupation and doing and on the other hand the medical approach) And the presentations of the different mentoring programms. There a lof of types of mentoring programms, and it gives an impression what we could although do. I was the second time on a Cotec Meeting and so I met some old or new OT friends. (connections ; -)) I liked the diversity of the different countries and how the OT´s are all passion for her Job and to breathe air of an international meeting. New for me: the international classification of primary care (ICPC)

INDIVIDUAL HIGHLIGHTS (EVA) – The obvious one: COTEC Elections I got elected as new VP Finance – Influencing with knowledge that sticks: How occupational therapists can act more effectively as change agents (Workshop by Annie Carrier) Inspiring on multiple levels as PBL approach was used in workshop, so „practice-me“ and „education-me“ got some food for thought – Networking (online and IRL) Meeting new colleagues as well as known ones - Tweeting as a conference occupation experiencing once more, how active international OTs are on this platform; getting new ideas and thoughts through other’s people eye in ‘realtime’ while listening to a keynote; going to posters I would’nt have seen in the programme - Very well organised (day through night) and wonderful, helpful staff „It‘s the little things, that sometimes make a huge difference“

INDIVIDUAL HIGHLIGHTS (CONNIE) E #COT –. . ACH OF E P S E T O N Y LAST KE MARY LAW HE 16 T O N C_E

INDIVIDUAL HIGHLIGHTS (EDITH) – Less attention to assistive technology in education and reseach gives opportunities for the research center Technology in care. – Met interesting international partners, some old relations, some new – Advice on assistive technology appears to be at high level in the Netherlands – There is much need for research of the effectiveness of assistive technology • No presentation on the focus of new assistive technology in education, seems that is no issue

INDIVIDUAL HIGHLIGHTS (RIANNE) – Increasing challenges in mental health from + a societal perspective (Corey Keyes) http: //sociology. emory. edu/home/people/fa culty/keyes-corey. html Also look at Youtube – Importance of primary health care and the societal challenges (e. g. inequity, demographically) EFPC = important network http: //www. euprimarycare. org/ – Research methodology: • PAR participation action research or EAR education action research • Appreciative Inquiry Approach • Child & Youth: – More and more occupation and participation based projects accompanied with research – SB-OT network is started (school based) – Confirmation and inspiration RE modul 2 • Assistive Technology – Number of presentations/posters is growing but still limited. – Research about everyday technology with elderly (Karolinska Institute)

IDEAS FOR THE FUTURE • Present Zuyd internationally – More student’s involvement • Stimulate students to visit congresses • Stimulate students to present, hand in a poster, and get involved in congresses • Stimulate students to start international projects to present • Stimulate internationalization and inter-professionalisation – More involvement of colleagues • Follow the congress on social media (e. g. twitter) • Connecting more to our international partners and presenting our work in education together