Although this site has been created by a single author, Wendy Sherwood, this could not have been possible without the contribution of others. The intention is that it continues to develop in collaboration with interested parties and those working through partnerships.

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Welcome to the VdT Model of Creative Ability Interest Group (MCAIG)

We hope that you find the site a useful resource. The information pages are freely accessible. There are special downloads available to those with membership at just £12 a year, along with access to a discussion forum on assessment, intervention and specific fields of practice (subgroups). Copies of presentations (including conference presentations) and a newsletter containing important up-dates are also provided for members. Members also gain a discounted rate for the international conference.

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This site provides information on the Vona du Toit Model of Creative Ability (VdT MoCA) as presented by de Witt (2005).

The VdT Model of Creative Ability is gaining increasing interest and favour amongst occupational therapists in Great Britain, particularly in the fields of mental health, forensic, learning disabilities and head injuries. Forensic services in Japan have also adopted the model and there is growing interest in other fields.

The Model of Creative Ability Interest Group (MCAIG) was founded in 2006 by Wendy Sherwood MSc, an occupational therapist and Senior Lecturer in Occupational Therapy. The concept of MCAIG arose out of realising that literature on, and access to this South African model is very limited. Wendy undertook a Masters dissertation on the model’s assessment. South African occupational therapists as participants in the study discussed how they have developed the use of the model and it became apparent that this knowledge and theory building is not shared widely with the occupational therapy profession.

On receipt of the Agnes Storar Travel Bursary, Wendy visited OTs using the model in South Africa and on her return, decided to create the MCAIG website as a tool for sharing knowledge and experience of using the model and for bringing together a community of practice.

Aims of MCAIG:

• To bring together isolated or groups of occupational therapists, OT support workers, educators and other interested parties into a community of practice (a network) for the purpose of sharing knowledge, skills and experience related to the VdT Model of Creative Ability
• To disseminate information relating to the VdT Model of Creative Ability in order to widen access to information for the occupational therapy profession globally
• To stimulate critical evaluation of the model
• To develop continuing professional development opportunities
• To support the development of research ideas, implementation and dissemination
• To support international collaboration

What is the VdT Model of Creative Ability?

The VdT Model of Creative Ability is an OT practice model of contemporary relevance.  It is a recovery model that enables therapists to facilitate the recovery of motivation and occupational performance.  Unique to this model is its provision of a detailed guide to the selection and presentation of intervention in the form of activity as a powerful therapeutic tool.
 
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The VdT Model of Creative Ability
Assessment and Intervention

The VdT Model of Creative Ability provides a number of methods for performing assessment, making it very flexible for therapists. Comprehensive treatment/intervention guidelines are provided for selection and use of activity. The focus on activity, activity analysis and grading assists OTs to provide OT to all clients.

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The VdT Model of Creative Ability in

The detailed levels of creative ability are easy to align with service provision. This enables OTs to ‘expect’ clients of particular levels of ability within their service, enabling them to efficiently organise and provide assessment and intervention.

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Awards and Grants

Vona du Toit strongly asserted that the occupational therapy profession should be established with scientific and theoretical foundations, offering a means of measuring and demonstrating its effectiveness. There is a need for qualified and unqualified occupational therapists with the initiative to explore, discuss, research and report on the model in practice in order to broaden knowledge of creative ability and to provide an evidence-base for this important model.

MCAIG provides three initiatives to support this endeavour:
MCAIG Award for occupational therapy support workers
MCAIG-Sherwood Travel Bursary
MCAIG-Sherwood Grant for Research

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Training in the VdT Model of Creative Ability and CPD

As an International Creative Ability Network (ICAN), ICAN is the foremost UK provider of training, support and consultancy for developing the application of the Model of Creative Ability in occupational therapy and multidisciplinary practice in the UK and abroad. ICAN delivers training in the model whilst also networking internationally in order to identify experts and practitioners willing to share their expertise with therapists in the UK and abroad. Subsequently, ICAN organises a range of training and CPD opportunities including training in the use of:

• the Activity Participation Outcome Measure (APOM), developed by Daleen
  Casteleijn, South Africa for use with the model
• the Analytical Survey developed by Dain van der Reyden, South Africa for
  identifying the levels of creative ability within a service population in order to
  design effective occupational therapy provision

Therapists using the model may also wish to explore Animation Therapy Ltd which uses the model to understand how animation can be used therapeutically with people of varying levels of ability and needs.

Continuing Professional Development

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This website is dedicated to Vona du Toit and all the occupational therapists who have contributed to the continued teaching and practice of the Model of Creative Ability. Particular recognition is given to the University of Pretoria, University of Witswatersrand and the University of Kwa Zulu-Natal.

The aim of this site is to share research, information, knowledge and skills related to the teaching, practice and development of the VdT Model of Creative Ability, and to encouraging and supporting international collaboration for the further development of the model.

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