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      A survey of occupational therapists' involvement in facilitating self-employment for people with disabilities

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          BACKGROUND: In South Africa, occupational therapists are involved with the facilitation of people with disabilities ability to work, but the high unemployment rate in the country affects placement opportunities. Utilising the option of self-employment is a way of addressing this problem OBJECTIVE: To explore the attitude of South African occupational therapists about facilitating self-employment with their clients, their awareness of available resources that support self-employment, if therapists are offering such intervention and what they perceive their role to be within the field METHOD: The study used a quantitative cross-sectional descriptive survey design RESULTS: A positive attitude (90%) and good awareness of available resources (74%) existed amongst participating occupational therapists. Occupational therapy practices did not offer self-employment facilitation in an evidence-based manner. Therapists believed their roles were undefined within the field of self-employment, and their training did not equip them to offer such intervention CONCLUSION: Occupational Therapists agree that self-employment is a good work option for people with a disability and are aware of resources that support such endeavours. The therapeutic practice and role definition is lacking. Occupational therapists have to create evidence that enables transformational and afro-appropriate interventions, for example, self-employment for people with disabilities within their profession

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              Re-conceptualising vocational rehabilitation services towards an inter-sectoral model

              This paper reports on a process that was undertaken by a group of occupational therapists, to re-conceptualise vocational rehabilitation in the Western Cape Province. A critical action research inquiry method was used to review the role and positioning of the vocational rehabilitation services. The traditional vocational services, situated within the Department of Health, were found to be limited in a number of ways. The positioning of vocational rehabilitation as predominantly a health concern created a barrier that limited the scope of service delivery, thus hindering the outcome of employment. An alternate inter-sectoral approach was conceptualised; such an approach could have significant implications for the application of vocational rehabilitation. The implementation of the model that is proposed in this article will depend on the identified key stakeholders' acceptance thereof and their efforts to collaborate.
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                Journal
                sajot
                South African Journal of Occupational Therapy
                S. Afr. j. occup. ther.
                The Occupational Therapy Association of South Africa (Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa )
                0038-2337
                2310-3833
                December 2018
                : 48
                : 3
                : 52-57
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                [01] orgnameUniversity of the Witwatersrand orgdiv1School of Therapeutic Sciences orgdiv2Faculty of Health Sciences
                Article
                S2310-38332018000300008
                10.17159/2310-3833/2017/vol48n3a8
                218e63d8-d1b1-4b29-8b68-cc09b339005d

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

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                Self-employment,Unemployment,SMME (Small, medium and micro enterprise),PWDs (People with disabilities)

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