Occupation

Abstracts
Posters
Author Biographies
Alison is a highly Specialist Occupational Therapist at The
Children’s Trust Tadworth, working with children with brain
injury.
P22
Occupational therapy co-creation of health: a
partnership with HMP Grampian Family Centre
Morrison S, Anderson K, Robert Gordon University
Occupational therapists understand the concept of health
literacy, its impact on child and adult health and advocate
its use in daily occupations, to improve health (CAOT 2013).
Health literacy is defined as skills to access and understand
information that will promote or maintain health (Rootman
and Gordon 2008). Occupational therapists value play as the
main occupation for children as a means to promoting and
maintaining health.
Sir Harry Burns (Scottish Government 2013) former chief
medical officer for Scotland identified community partnerships
were essential, for meeting the needs of different populations
reflecting organisational change in the delivery of health and
social care. Getting it Right for Every Child (Scottish Government
2012) reflects occupational therapy values and the integral
role parents play in the healthy development of their children.
The Scottish Government (2008) tasked health professionals,
to empower parents – create stimulating and supportive
environments, to ensure children have the best start in life.
A partnership between HMP Grampian Family Centre, Action
for Children and Occupational Therapy at Robert Gordon
University, collaborated to empower children and family
members, to improve their health and health literacy skills
through occupations of play. Healthy play sessions were planned
and conducted by occupational therapy students at the HMP
Grampian Family Centre in conjunction with children and
families.
At this interim stage of the project photo-voice will explore the
experience of partnership working for those involved in the
healthy play sessions. It is anticipated photo-voice will capture
the stories of the children and families who participated in the
play project for the co-creation of health. Findings from this
project will be utilised to inform the benefits of the play project
at HMP Grampian Family Centre, in view of the forthcoming
reform of Criminal Justice Services in Scotland.
References
CANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS
(CAOT) 2013. CAOT Position Statement: Enabling Health
Literacy in Occupational Therapy. Ottawa: Canadian Association
of Occupational Therapists
ROOTMAN, I., and GORDON-EI-BIHBETY, D., 2008. A vision
for a health literate Canada: Report on the expert panel on
health literacy. Ottawa: Canadian Association of Occupational
Therapists.
THE SCOTTISH GOVERNEMENT, 2008. The Early Years
Framework. [online]. Edinburgh: The Scottish Government.
Available from: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/
Doc/257007/0076309.pdf [Accessed on 14 August 2015].
THE SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT, 2012. Getting it right for every
child. [online]. Edinburgh: The Scottish Government. Available
from: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resources/0042/00423979.
pdf [Accessed 13 th August 2015].
THE SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT, 2013. Annual report of the chief
medical officer: population health and improvement science.
Edinburgh: The Scottish Government.
Keywords
Children and families, Service improvement or transformation,
Innovative practice, Inter-agency
Contact E-mail Addresses
s.morrison@rgu.ac.uk k.l.keith@rgu.ac.uk
Author Biographies
Stephanie trained at Robert Gordon University, thereafter
working in adult psychiatry in Tayside in 2001 she joined the
academic team at Robert Gordon University. Stephanie’s areas
of interest include – marginalized populations, prisoners’ health,
public health, an occupational perspective of health in practice
and ‘situated learning’ experience for students.
Stephanie has worked for a number of years with Scottish
Prison Service at HMP Aberdeen and HMP Grampian, in relation
to health of prisoners. From these areas of work, Stephanie
was instrumental in developing the occupational therapy post
at HMP-Grampian and continues to be involved with various
projects at HMP-Grampian.
Kirstyn Anderson, Lecturer in Occupational Therapy, Robert
Gordon University, worked in NHS Tayside for or over 10 years,
in both acute and primary care settings and in specialist roles
in areas of occupational therapy practice, including acute
neurosciences and child health before commencing at RGU
in December 2012. Kirstyn is actively involved in early career
research opportunities in partnership with current students,
graduates and experienced researchers in the School of Health
Sciences at RGU.
P23
Men as caregivers: implications for occupational
therapy
Davys D, Collins T, University of Salford
There is an increasing demand upon families to provide care
in a context of reduced resources and budgetary constraint.
Occupational therapists are called upon not only to work with
individuals but to collaborate with families and communities
(World Federation of Occupational Therapists 2010) and to
develop effective partnerships with service users and their carers
(College of Occupational Therapists 2010).
This paper will present data drawn from the existing literature
and emergent themes from doctoral and post doctoral studies
for which ethical approval was gained from the relevant
universities. One study focused upon the siblings of people who
have an intellectual disability and the other upon the experience
of widowers who had been carers. Both studies utilised semistructured
interviews to collect data and applied a form of
thematic analysis to the findings. Emergent themes arising from
both studies include the care role of men within society and
gender issues.
From the findings of the research and associated literature it
is apparent that men are considered to be hard to engage by
service providers (Age Concern 2007) and that tensions between
men and service users may exist (Rivard and Mastel-Smith 2014).
The prevailing social expectation that women will take on a care
role remains however men can and do take on such roles which
may impact upon their health, wellbeing and ultimately their
ability to provide unpaid care. It is also apparent that men may
have specific needs in relation to their care role however service
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