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How to damage OTA practice and diminish the OT profession in three easy steps.

1. Promote mission and scope creep of community colleges without thoughtful vetting of the consequences . 2. Purposely ignore the impact of minimum wage increases on the nonprofit human services sector . 3. Ignore the feedback of a professional membership that strongly opposes increasing OTA education to the bachelor's level . It is very important to click the embedded links (above) to fully understand the scope of this issue. What is left to do?  Get involved and demand more thoughtful decision making from the OT leadership. Or watch it crumble. Your choice. .

Occupational therapists want the general systems funk

Specialization is an unfortunate by-product of expansive knowledge.  It is challenging to remain abreast of developments in multiple fields and in the busy lives of modern day humans people come to rely on the comprehensive thinking of 'others' while they busy themselves with their specialized thinking. Few stop to consider whether or not those 'others' to whom great power is ceded for their comprehensive thinking are actually up to the task.  Or, if they are up to the task, who is doing the checking to make sure that the use of said power is being delegated for the broader good? In particular, occupational therapy is a broad field with multiple areas of specialization.  As such, practitioners working in geriatric long term care facilities may not be paying much attention to the goings-on for their pediatric school-based colleagues, and vice versa.  In a complicated world where specialists struggle to function within their own constricted spheres of operation it is