Niemeyer, LindaGrinberg, Eldad2019-10-032019-10-032019https://hdl.handle.net/2144/38178A major dilemma that is being addressed in the current project is the discrepancies between healthcare system's expectations for a rapid and successful rehabilitation process and patients after having a stroke ability to meet these expectations while striving to adapt to the calamitous event in their life. Emphasizing a more biomedical approach and under implementation of psychosocial approaches, poor acknowledging of patients' basic psychological needs lead to poor motivation, therapeutic disengagement and may lead to a rehabilitation failure. To cope with this gap in the process of stroke rehabilitation, an educational program aiming for occupational therapists working with patients after having a stroke in their acute and post-acute rehabilitation phases was constructed. The program guides practitioners for effective communication with their patients, building a needs-supportive environment and addressing their patients' basic psychological needs in light of the selfdetermination theory, theories of adaptation from occupational therapy perspectives and considering occupational justice and the ICF model. A clinical reasoning, step-by-step problem solving is introduced using adaptation of known models and innovated models for interventions that were created for this purpose. Program delivery through a series of 4-webinar modules is illustrated with their learning objectives, assignments and discussions. The program evaluation and implementation are expected to be the initiator of a change in the health and rehabilitation climate and in Israel.en-USAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Occupational therapyBasic psychological needsNeeds supportive environmentPsychosocial approachStroke rehabilitationThesis/Dissertation2019-09-29https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7008-2115