Prof. Christiane Mentrup

Work at ZHAW

Position

Director Institute of Occupational Therapy

Focus

future developments in occupational therapy, in health care and higher education; internationalisation; Sustainability in higher education

Teaching

Occupational Therapy Paradigm development and OT Models, Workshops based on Human Centred Design and Design Thinking

Experience

• Guest Professor
  European University Cyprus (EUC)
  10 / 2024 - today
• freelance speaker inter-/national
  freelance
  08 / 2005 - 12 / 2005
• Head of College for Occupational Therapy
  Völker-Schule Osnabrueck, Germany
  07 / 1996 - 07 / 2005
• teaching staff at college of Occupational Therapy
  Die Schule, Melle, Germany
  09 / 1993 - 07 / 1996
• Occupational Therapist in psychiatric Hospital, acute care
  Queen Street Mental Health Center, Toronto, Canada
  08 / 1989 - 07 / 1992
• Head of Occupational Therapy Department
  Psychiatric Hospital Waldhaus, Chur, Switzerland
  08 / 1988 - 07 / 1989

Education and Continuing education

Education

• Master of Science Degree in Occupational Therapy / Occupational Therapy
  Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Schweden and Hogeschool Amsterdam, Niederlande
  09 / 2000 - 09 / 2002
• Diploma Occupational Therapy / Occupational Therapy
  Schule für Arbeits- und Beschäftigungstherapie, Osnabrueck, Germany
  08 / 1985 - 06 / 1988

Network

Membership of networks

• European Network of Occupational Therapy in Higher Education
• European Master of Science in Occupational Therapy

Awards

• Professor in Occupational Therapy
  Fachhochschulrat ZFH
  07 / 2011
• World Federation of Occupational Therapists Merit Award
  World Federation of Occupational Therapists
  09 / 2008
• European Union Women Inventors & Innovators Recognition Award
  European Union Women Inventors & Innovators Network
  06 / 2007

Publications

• Sottas, Beat; Mentrup, Christiane; Meyer, Peter C.,

  2016.

  Interprofessional education and practice in Sweden.

  International Journal of Health Professions.

  3(1), pp. 3-13.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1515/ijhp-2016-0002

• Senn, Daniela; Mentrup, Christiane,

  2010.

  Der Europäische Ergotherapie-Master in Neuauflage.

  Ergoscience.

  5(3), pp. 130-131.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0029-1245545

• Mentrup, Christiane; Christopher, Anja,

  2020.

  Model of Human Occupation : eine psychosoziale Perspektive

  .

  In:

  Kubny, Beate, ed.,

  Ergotherapie in der Psychiatrie.

  Stuttgart:

  Thieme.

  pp. 70-90.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1055/b-006-163267

• Mentrup, Christiane; Galli Hudec, Claudia,

  2015.

  (Ein-)Blick über den Zaun : Akademisierung in der Schweiz.

  Ergotherapie & Rehabilitation.

  2015(8), pp. 24-28.

• Mentrup, Christiane; Galli Hudec, Claudia,

  2015.

  (Ein)-Blick über den Zaun - "Neues" entdecken in der Schweiz : Akademisierung? Akademisierung!.

  In:

  60. Ergotherapiekongress des DVE, Bielefeld, Deutschland, 1.-3. Mai 2015.

  Bielefeld:

  DVE.

  Available from: https://dve.info/images/Eroeffnungsrede_Mentrup_Galli_45min.mp3

Publications before appointment at the ZHAW

• Kielhofner G, Brenneman Baron K, Mentrup C, Schulte D, Sheperd J (2008, 2002) Enabling Clients to Reconstruct Their Occupational Lives in Long-Term Rehabilitation. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, Maryland; S. 379-404.
• Bowyer P, Bélanger R, Briand C, de las Heras C, Kinébanian A, Lauiainen H, Marcoux C, Mentrup C, Morel-Braq M-C, Nakamura-Thomas H, Pan A-W, Tigchelaar E, Yamada T, Ziv N, Kielhofner G (2008) International Efforts to Disseminate and Develop the Model of Human Occupation. Occupational Therapy in Health Care Journal, 22 (2-3) 1-24.
• Mentrup C, Niehaus A, Kielhofner G (1999) Applying the Model of Human Occupation in Work Focussed Rehabilitation: A Case Illustration. Work Journal, Amsterdam, Washington DC, 12 (1) 61-70.

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