[OTlist] Kawa model

[Makoto KYOGOKU]

Hello everyone:   I didn't join an Asia Pacific OT Conference. But, the Kawa model is known. The following is the homepage of the Kawa model. http://www.kawamodel.org/english/frame.htm http://www.kawamodel.org/japanese/frame.htm Kawa is the river. Last week, it seemed that the workshop of the Kawa model was organized in Canada. As for the Kawa model, the client's circumstance is metaphor in the kawa (refer to river). At the present time, the Kawa model doesn't provide individual assessment method and intervention. But, it is the OT theory which reflected Asian culture. The mailing list and the BBS of the Kawa model is organaized. An interested person is to participate!! Thanks.   Makoto ----- Original Message ----- From: Diana Chang To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 3:39 PM Subject: Re: [OTlist] self-introduction Wow this is really interesting!!!  What organization is this?  I mean I'd like to join?  Do I need to be OTR/OTL in order to join? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone as well, My name is Carmel Tso, I am from Spore. We had a Asia Pacific OT Conference 2 weeks ago in Spore. It was really interesting! We had pple from south east asia, taiwan, japan, australia and china as well. Carolyn Baum was the invited speaker. what was interesting to me the various areas that the OTs were involved in; stroked rehab for the more developed countries, involvment in policy making, interdisplinary approach for therapists promoting primary health care services for the developing countries, countries like nepal were exploring the role of OT for their pple,... the japanese OT presented a tool for assessment they call it the kawa river, have you heard of it Makoto? they use the river as a metaphor of a patient's perception of his condition; rocks representing as barriers that the person experiencing, ri! verbed as the social support system... all very philosophical. since i thought that the group was talking abt culture. i thought this might be of some interest. carmel "Makoto KYOGOKU" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>on 30/09/2003 07:13:40 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: (bcc: Carmel Tso/THERAPY/TTSH) Subject: Re: [OTlist] self-introduction Hello Everyone: Thank you for the response. I will become a graduate student from the next year. The specialty is a study of the Community-based OT. Over the years, OT is an evolving profesion that I want to be able to used the OTlist to exmaine current practice and to consider new applications in emerging practice. Thanks. Makoto ***************************** ��********************************** To remove yourself from the OTnow mail list, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message, indicate what address you want removed from OTnow - List messages are archived at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] *****************************��*********************************** di (; f I advance, follow me. If I stop, push me. If I fall, inspire me. Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search