ABSTRACT

Forming and functioning together as members of a working team presents special challenges when team members are of differing educational and experiential backgrounds. This university-affiliated child psychiatry occupational therapy team has developed a team

model which blends the roles of Registered Occupational Therapists (therapist) and Certified Occupational Therapy Assistants (assis­ tant) so that members’ expertise and interests combine to yield so­ phisticated service delivery. In this paper role delineation will be described in terms of clinical practice, program development, ard supervision.