Recruitment standards and practices in occupational therapy, 1900-1930
Colman, W.
American journal of occupational therapy official publication of the American Occupational Therapy Association 44(8): 742-748
1990
ISSN/ISBN: 0272-9490 PMID: 2399929 Document Number: 362199
Debate regarding recruitment standards and practices exemplifies various visions of practice that exist within a profession. In occupational therapy, early recruitment criteria provide an example of how the field's founders envisioned the professional practitioner. As occupational therapy grew in membership throughout the 1920s, that vision was challenged. This paper identifies and describes the recruitment ideas expressed by both the founders of occupational therapy and their challengers from 1900 to 1930 and suggests the influence of their ideas on recruitment standards.