Occupational Therapy in Australia — Where Are We Going and How do We Get There

Abstract

The occupational therapy profession has come a long way since its beginnings in the 1940s. It is now 1990: where do we want occupational therapy to be in another 50 years? Our profession can have control over its future. To do this we must acknowledge and analyse the internal and external environment, establish short and long term plans, and learn to utilise power to play and win the political games. The possibilities await us. As a profession we must choose a course of affirmative action, co‐ordinated by the profession's hierarchy, in consultation with all the members of the profession. All occupational therapists need to play their part.