The Needs of Newly Qualified Occupational Therapists

Abstract

This article discusses the results at a survey of occupational therapists who qualified from the three Scottish occupational therapy courses in 1986 and considers the problems new occupational therapists have in adjusting from being a student to a qualified therapist. It emphasises the need for support and supervision and suggests other approaches that educational establishments, clinicians and new therapists could take to ease this period of adjustment.