Authors: Dick, S., & McGowan, L. Summary: The authors, Sam Dick and Lisa McGowan, are third year occupational therapy students at Coventry University. In this article, they have described and reflected upon Continue Reading »
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Abstract: The kawa (kawa is Japanese for ‘river’) model of occupational therapy has recently emerged in response to the needs for culturally sensitive conceptual models of practice that adequately address Continue Reading »
Author: Ovidiu Muntean Abstract: The Kawa (River) model was developed by Japanese occupational therapists in the 1990s in response to a need for an occupational therapy framework that socially Continue Reading »
Author: Tiffany Takahashi Originally from: http://jagwire.augusta.edu/archives/29260 One of our stories during International Education Week involved the Kawa Model, a theory of occupational therapy developed by Dr. Michael Iwama, chair of Occupational Continue Reading »
Credentials Display Lydia Royeen, MOT, OTR/L Abstract Jen Gash, an occupational therapist and creativity coach living in the UK, provided the cover art for the winter 2015 issue of The Continue Reading »
Author: Matumo Ramafikeng, Health Sciences UCT, 2010 Find the original article at: https://vula.uct.ac.za/access/content/group/9c29ba04-b1ee-49b9-8c859a468b556ce2/Framework_2/pdf/Kawa%20Model.pdf Introduction : The Kawa (River) model was developed by Japanese occupational therapists in the 1990s in response to a Continue Reading »
Author: Teoh Ter Fu / Gail Eva Occupational Therapy Conference Odense, Denmark 12th November 2015 Link: http://www.etf.dk/sites/default/files/uploads/public/international_perspectives_.pdf
Author: Linda Renton. MSc, BSc(Hons), Dip COT, Prof Doc Student. Queen Margaret University. Edinburgh, Scotland. Event: WFOT Congress Chile 2010 Link: http://eresearch.qmu.ac.uk/1864/1/eResearch_1864.pdf
Originally retrieved from: Link: http://www.allthingsot.com/#!frames-of-reference/cx3b Website presented by: All Things OT. Excerpt: Kawa River Model The Kawa River model was developed by Iwama in 2006 and was designed as a metaphor to be used Continue Reading »
By Debbie Amini, EdD, OTR/L, CHT Using only one frame of reference (FoR) or model of care is not always realistic or in the client’s best interest; however, you Continue Reading »
With gratitude to the original author, Helen Hampson of the OT Process. Find out more about her at https://theotprocess.wordpress.com/about/ As promised, a post about the Kawa model, because I Continue Reading »
Originally posted on: http://eatsleeploveot.tumblr.com/post/77078360479/the-kawa-model We have been instructed to use the current communities we are in and apply the Kawa model to it, now for those of you who don not Continue Reading »
Full article here: http://www.jengash.co.uk/kawa/ The metaphor of a river as life, is not a new one. It is embedded in our language as all metaphors are and speaks to part Continue Reading »