For OT Month, OT Conversations That Matter: the Podcast is releasing a special extended episode focusing on the new textbook Promoting Occupational Participation: Collaborative Relationship-Focused Occupational Therapy. For episode 15, our host Justine Jecker is joined by OTs Gayle Restall and Mary Egan, editors of the new textbook representing over three dozen authors.

Through answering questions from our members about the new book, this episode explores the fundamental purpose of occupational participation and the book’s emphasis that occupational therapy is focused on collaborative relationships with individuals, families, communities, and populations. Considered an evolutionary advancement in our thinking, the publication introduces three important developments: how OTs characterize relationships with clients, the primary aim of practice, and how the profession is responding to justice, equity, and rights for individuals and collectives. Justine, Mary and Gayle also explore the new framework, the Canadian Occupational Therapy Inter-Relational Practice Process (COTIPP), and further elaborate on the evolutions towards the CanMOP and COTIPP from the Enabling Occupation II textbook which focuses on the CMOP-E and CPPF.