Behavioural Toxicology in Occupational Health

Behavioural Toxicology: A New Opportunity for Occupational Therapists

“…"These new rights have provided opportunities for occupational therapists to participate in practice arenas where (they) have not been before and to fill roles that have not been available to (them) in the past" (Hightower-Vandamm, 1979, p.9). The present paper discusses one such arena which provides an opportunity for occupational therapists to participate in its early development and to play a significant role in the promotion of health and wellbeing and in the management of patients with disabilities: the newly developing field of behavioural toxicology (Melamed et. al.…”