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Names: Crouch, Rosemary B., author.
Title: Occupational group therapy / Rosemary B. Crouch.
Description: First edition. | Hoboken, NJ : Wiley‐Blackwell, 2021. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020044301 (print) | LCCN 2020044302 (ebook) | ISBN 9781119591436 (paperback) | ISBN 9781119591443 (adobe pdf) | ISBN 9781119591528 (epub)
Subjects: MESH: Occupational Therapy–methods | Psychotherapy, Group–methods
Classification: LCC RC487 (print) | LCC RC487 (ebook) | NLM WM 450.5.O2 | DDC 616.89/165–dc23
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This book is dedicated to my professional colleague and great friend Vivyan Alers.
Vivyan was a respected and dedicated occupational therapist, especially in group work, and much of her work is reflected in this book.
She was involved initially as co‐author of this book and was part of the whole process of designing it and communicating with the publishers. It was her dream to publish a book about her passion for occupational group therapy. She was a skilled group therapist and psychodramatist particularly in the use of the Therapeutic Spiral technique. She used her skill in the most effective way when she worked with impoverished and traumatised people in Johannesburg as well as in many other environments.
She had an infectious and lovely, kind personality and was much loved. She passed away suddenly at the age of 64 in 2018. She is sadly missed.
— Rosemary Crouch
Author’s Biographies
Rosemary Crouch and Vivyan Alers.
Rosemary Crouch
Dr. Rosemary Barncastle Crouch received her Diploma in Occupational Therapy from the University of Witwatersrand (Wits) in 1960 and graduated with a BSc. Occupational Therapy in 1971. She lectured in the Department of Occupational Therapy at Wits from 1973 until the end of 1989. She graduated with an MSc. with distinction at Wits in 1984. After leaving Wits at the end of 1989 she went into the private sector and was appointed as part‐time senior lecturer in occupational therapy at MEDUNSA and Pretoria University. In 2003 she received her PhD at the Medical University of South Africa (MEDUNSA).
She has been appointed visiting lecturer to a number of universities including the University of Alberta in Edmonton in Canada in 2004. In 2007 she was appointed as a Mellon Mentor at Wits in the School of Therapeutic Sciences until the end of 2010. After a year of retirement she was appointed in 2012 to the Department of Nursing Education as a Mentor and appointed to the position of Honorary Adjunct Professor in the School of Therapeutic Sciences. She was also appointed in a part‐time capacity to the Department of Research and School of Humanities at Wits until 2020.
Rosemary is the co‐editor of three books with Vivyan Alers as co‐author entitled ‘Occupational Therapy in Psychiatry and Mental Health’. The fourth and fifth editions were published by Wiley & Blackwell Publishers (UK). She was also co‐editor with Vivyan Alers of the book ‘Occupational Therapy: An African Perspective’, published in Johannesburg by Shorten Publishers in 2010.
She edited a book entitled ‘OTASA; A remarkable story’ published by Sarah Shorten, in 2016. Rosemary has many publications in journals.
She held various positions in the Occupational Therapy Association of South Africa (OTASA) and was appointed OTASA Representative on the World Federation of Occupational Therapists (WFOT) for a total of 19 years. She was Chairman of the Education Committee of WFOT and then became Vice President for four years in 1998. In 2010 she was highly honoured to be awarded an Honorary Life Fellowship to WFOT.
She was chairperson of the Professional Board for Occupational therapy, Medical Orthotists and Prosthetists and Arts Therapists for eight years from 2004 to 2010. In 2019 she was honoured to be awarded a ‘Health Merit Award’ as a Top Professional by the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA).
She is an Honorary Life member of the Occupational Therapy Association of South Africa (OTASA).
Louise Fouché (Author of Chapter 4)
Louise qualified as an occupational