Major themes in occupational therapy: a content analysis of the Eleanor Clarke Slagle lectures, 1955-1985.
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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New York University, New York 10003.
D006801:Humans; D009788:Occupational Therapy / Q000639:trends*; D014481:United States