Ruth Wright is at the Occupational Therapy Department, St Martin's College, Lancaster. Leonie Sugarman is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist and is Senior Lecturer in?the Department of Applied Social Sciences, St Martin's College, Lancaster.

• Learning Tasks. Boxes.Figures.Tables.Preface.Chapter 0: Read Me: It All Starts Here.Chapter 1: The Life Course as an Organizing Framework.Chapter 2: The Client in Context.Chapter 3: Life Events.Chapter 4: Transition and Loss.Chapter 5: Stress and its Management.Chapter 6: Planful Decision Making.Chapter 7: Telling tales.Chapter 8: Becoming and belonging as an occupational therapist.Chapter 9: Developing professional practice.Reflective practice.Supervision.The therapeutic use of self.The therapeutic self.Key Terms and Concepts.References.

"I would recommend this book to occupational therapists at any stage of their career and life course. It applies a constructive framework that affirms beliefs and philosophy which have been long held and applied in occupational therapy practice and brings something new to our practice and professional development." (British Journal of Occupational Thearpy, 1 November 2011) "All health and social care professionals with a client-centred focus will be able to draw valuable perspectives from this book.“(International Journal of Therapy and Rehabilitation , October 2009)