Overseas Experience Inspires Improving Occupational Therapy Services in Thailand

Overseas Experience Inspires Improving Occupational Therapy Services in Thailand

Author's Introduction

　　I have worked at Chiang Mai University since 2013, providing occupational therapy services for people of all ages, lectures, practicum, clinical supervision, and research. I have expertise in mental health occupational therapy, community occupational therapy, and qualitative research, particularly grounded theory.

　　I was a Ph. D. scholar of the Tokyo Human Resources Fund for City Diplomacy at the Tokyo Metropolitan University in Japan from 2018 to 2021. My doctoral research featured a developmental conceptual model of promoting social re-participation for Thai people with depression residing in the community, and have obtained first-hand experience of this problem since the outbreak of COVID-19 in Thailand in early 2020.

Author's Introduction

　　I have worked at Chiang Mai University since 2013, providing occupational therapy services for people of all ages, lectures, practicum, clinical supervision, and research. I have expertise in mental health occupational therapy, community occupational therapy, and qualitative research, particularly grounded theory.

　　I was a Ph. D. scholar of the Tokyo Human Resources Fund for City Diplomacy at the Tokyo Metropolitan University in Japan from 2018 to 2021. My doctoral research featured a developmental conceptual model of promoting social re-participation for Thai people with depression residing in the community, and have obtained first-hand experience of this problem since the outbreak of COVID-19 in Thailand in early 2020.