Changing patterns in the organization and delivery of health services demand parallel changes in roles and responsibilities of occupational therapists. There is increasing need to identify with the field of health, thus broadening our affiliations. We must recognize the responsibility of the profession to change with changing demands for its services, to adapt via new approaches, to assume different roles, to develop the preparation for them, and to recruit in a new mold rather than by re-casting the prototype of an earlier time.
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