Susan Cox Johnson
By: Aimee Garcia
Susan Cox Johnson
Who?
Was an advocate for high educational standards and for the training of competent practitioners versus training large numbers of practitioners.
Susan Cox Johnson was a designer and an arts and crafts teacher from Berkeley, California.
Sources:
O'Brien, Jane Clifford and Susan M. Hussey. Introduction to Occupational Therapy. Elsevier Inc., 2011.
She wanted to demonstrate that occupation could improve the mental and physical state of patients
She became the Director of Occupations at the New York State Department of Public Charities
Peloquin, Suzanne M., Occupational Therapy Service: Individual and Collective Understandings of the Founders., 1990.
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She believed strongly that the educational curriculum mattered.
She joined the faculty of Teachers College in the Department of Nursing and Health, where she taught occupational therapy.
"The great field of occupation would never bear full fruit until the dignity and importance of the position of the teacher in this field is recognized."
She was one of the founders of the National Society for the Promotion of Occupational Therapy
Occupational Therapy
Then:
What?
She influenced occupational therapy's high educational standards in order to provide high quality therapy.
Occupational Therapy:
Now:
Her views and questions, born of her personal competencies, pushed for a balanced view of occupational therapy as part-medical, part-teaching function.
Arts and crafts in a psychiatric hospital
She aimed to prove that occupations could improve the mental and physical conditions of patients.
She believed occupations could contribute to a person's self-support and it could be morally uplifting.