Clare S. Spackman

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| name = Clare S. Spackman

| image = ClareSSpackman1936.jpg

| alt = Clare S. Spackman, a young white woman with fair skin and dark hair, gaze cast downward

| caption = Clare S. Spackman, from a 1936 newspaper photo

| birth_name = Clara Spencer Spackman

| birth_date = December 8, 1909

| birth_place = Ardmore, Pennsylvania, U.S.

| death_date = August 5, 1992 (age 82)

| death_place = Doylestown, Pennsylvania, U.S.

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| occupation = Occupational therapist

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| notable_works = Principles of Occupational Therapy (1947)

| partner(s) = Helen S. Willard

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Clare Spencer Spackman (December 8, 1909 – August 5, 1992) was an American occupational therapist. She and Helen S. Willard) co-wrote Principles of Occupational Therapy (1947), a textbook widely used in the field. She was president of the World Federation of Occupational Therapists from 1957 to 1962, and a professor at the University of Pennsylvania.

Early life and education

Spackman was born in Ardmore, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Henry Spackman and Jane (or Jennie) S. Spackman. Her grandmother, Anna C. Spackman, was commended by Abraham Lincoln for her work on caring for wounded soldiers during the American Civil War.{{Cite news |date=1926-02-04 |title=Mrs. Spackman Dead at the Age of 90 Yrs. |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/pike-county-dispatch-mrs-spackman-dead/144718821/ |access-date=2024-04-04 |work=Pike County Dispatch |pages=1 |via=Newspapers.com}} She graduated from the Philadelphia School of Occupational Therapy in 1930, and earned a master's degree from the University of Pennsylvania.{{Cite journal |last=Ellis |first=Nancy B. |date=1993-04-01 |title=Clare S. Spackman 1909-1992 Clinician, Teacher, and World Leader in Occupational Therapy |url=https://doi.org/10.5014/ajot.47.4.368 |journal=The American Journal of Occupational Therapy |volume=47 |issue=4 |pages=368 |doi=10.5014/ajot.47.4.368 |issn=0272-9490|url-access=subscription }}

Career

Spackman was a professor at the Philadelphia School of Occupational Therapy beginning in 1937, and at the University of Pennsylvania after 1950. She was also director of the Philadelphia Curative Workshop{{Cite news |last=McCall |first=Libby |date=1954-02-28 |title=They Help Themselves |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-philadelphia-inquirer-they-help-them/144724396/ |access-date=2024-04-04 |work=The Philadelphia Inquirer |pages=163 |via=Newspapers.com}} until she retired in 1970. With her colleague Helen S. Willard, she co-authored Principles of Occupational Therapy (1947), an influential and widely used textbook in the profession.{{Cite journal |last1=Mahoney |first1=Wanda J. |last2=Peters |first2=Christine O. |last3=Martin |first3=Peggy M. |date=2017 |title=Willard and Spackman's Enduring Legacy for Future Occupational Therapy Pathways |url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28027033/ |journal=The American Journal of Occupational Therapy|volume=71 |issue=1 |pages=7101100020p1–7101100020p7 |doi=10.5014/ajot.2017.023994 |issn=0272-9490 |pmid=28027033}} She was president of the World Federation of Occupational Therapists from 1957 to 1962.{{Cite news |last=Nelson |first=Harry |date=1960-11-12 |title=Therapists Tell Need for More Trained Help |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-los-angeles-times-therapists-tell-ne/144718212/ |access-date=2024-04-04 |work=The Los Angeles Times |pages=34 |via=Newspapers.com}} She served on the executive committee of the Council of World Organizations Interested in the Welfare of the Handicapped, and on committees of the International Society for Rehabilitation of the Disabled.

In 1956, Spackman received the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA)'s Award of Merit. In 1970, she was named a Distinguished Daughter of Pennsylvania.{{Cite news |date=1970-10-04 |title=Four From Area to be Honored |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-philadelphia-inquirer-four-from-area/144717648/ |access-date=2024-04-04 |work=The Philadelphia Inquirer |pages=71 |via=Newspapers.com}} Spackman and Willard traveled together to professional conferences and speaking engagements in the United States and abroad, including a tour in Asia and Australia in 1960.{{Cite news |date=1960-09-03 |title=Helping World's Handicapped |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-age-helping-worlds-handicapped/144718329/ |access-date=2024-04-04 |work=The Age |pages=7 |via=Newspapers.com}}{{Cite news |date=1960-09-08 |title=Meeting for Therapists |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-sydney-morning-herald-meeting-for-th/144718609/ |access-date=2024-04-04 |work=The Sydney Morning Herald |pages=37 |via=Newspapers.com}}

Publications

"The Approach to the Patient in a General Hospital" (1937){{Cite journal |last=Spaceman |first=Clare S. |date=April 1937 |title=The Approach to the Patient in a General Hospital |url=https://journals.lww.com/ajpmr/citation/1937/04000/The_Approach_to_the_Patient_in_A_General_Hospital.3.aspx |journal=American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation |language=en-US |volume=16 |issue=2 |pages=93 |issn=0894-9115}}
Principles of Occupational Therapy (1947, with Helen S. Willard){{Cite book |last1=Willard |first1=Helen S. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o_lsAAAAMAAJ |title=Willard and Spackman's Occupational Therapy |last2=Spackman |first2=Clare S. |last3=Smith |first3=Helen D. |date=1988 |publisher=Lippincott |isbn=978-0-397-54679-4 |language=en}}
"The Second Pan-Pacific Conference on Rehabilitation" (1963){{Cite journal |last=Spackman |first=Clare S. |date=August 1963 |title=The Second Pan-Pacific Conference on Rehabilitation |url=http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/030802266302600806 |journal=Occupational Therapy|language=en |volume=26 |issue=8 |pages=4–5 |doi=10.1177/030802266302600806 |issn=0029-800X|url-access=subscription }}
"A history of the practice of occupational therapy for restoration of physical function: 1917-1967" (1968){{Cite journal |last=Spackman |first=C S |date=1968-03-01 |title=A history of the practice of occupational therapy for restoration of physical function: 1917-1967 |url=https://europepmc.org/article/med/4870063 |journal=The American Journal of Occupational Therapy |volume=22 |issue=2 |pages=67–71 |issn=1943-7676 |pmid=4870063}}
"The World Federation of Occupational Therapists: 1952-1967" (1969){{Cite journal |last=Spackman |first=Clare S. |date=October–December 1969 |title=The World Federation of Occupational Therapists: 1952-1967 |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1440-1630.1969.tb00366.x |journal=Australian Occupational Therapy Journal |language=en |volume=16 |issue=4 |pages=35–47 |doi=10.1111/j.1440-1630.1969.tb00366.x|url-access=subscription }}

Personal life

Spackman and Helen S. Willard lived together in Philadelphia, and shared a summer residence in Vermont. Willard died in 1980, and Spackman died in 1992, at the age of 82, in Doylestown, Pennsylvania.{{Cite news |last=Drill |first=Herb |date=1992-08-27 |title=Clare Spencer Spackman, a pioneer in occupational therapy |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-philadelphia-inquirer-clare-spencer/144724536/ |access-date=2024-04-04 |work=The Philadelphia Inquirer |pages=228 |via=Newspapers.com}} In 2017, she was named by the AOTA as one of the 100 most influential people in occupational therapy.{{Cite web |title=100 Influential People in Occupational Therapy: Clare S. Spackman, MS, OTR |url=http://www.otcentennial.org/the-100-people/spackman |access-date=2024-04-03 |website=OT Centennial, AOTA}}

References

Category:1909 births

Category:1992 deaths

Category:University of Pennsylvania faculty

Category:Occupational therapists

Category:People from Ardmore, Pennsylvania