Journal ArticleOTJR (Thorofare N J) · October 2024
Population-level analyses can demonstrate occupational injustices and their impact on population health. The objective of this article is to examine whether population-level occupational factors are related to the mental health of Montanans. We used linear ...
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Journal ArticleOccupational Therapy in Mental Health · January 1, 2024
Background: Research on the factors that promote the health of older veterans is limited. Purpose: To explore the relationships between military service, occupational participation, resilience and successful aging for older U.S. military veterans. Method: ...
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Journal ArticleOccupational Therapy in Mental Health · January 1, 2024
Experiences of psychosis, including auditory and visual hallucinations, are pathologized and stigmatized within healthcare settings and societies at large (particularly Anglo-European cultures). Yet, positive experiences of psychosis have been documented i ...
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Chapter · 2024
The updated 14th edition presents a more realistic and inclusive focus of occupational therapy as a world-wide approach to enhancing occupational performance, participation, and quality of life. ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Occupational Science · January 1, 2024
Very little is known about the subjective experiences of the occupations of autistic individuals and how these subjective experiences relate to their time use. The purpose of this paper is to explore self-reports of how autistic individuals living in the U ...
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Journal ArticleCan J Occup Ther · March 2023
Background. Research in neuroscience shows that adults with schizophrenia or related psychotic disorders experience atypical sensory processing (e.g., deficits in sensory gating and mismatch negativity). Despite significant evidence proving these biomarker ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Occupational Science · January 1, 2023
The percentage of Latinx immigrants over the age of 65 in the United States is expected to more than double within the next 30 years. These elders face particular health and occupational disparities emerging from a transaction of individual and sociocultur ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Occupational Science · January 1, 2023
Participation in occupation is an integrated and holistic mind/body experience. However, research and theory development on human action and occupational participation tend to be limited by mind/body dualisms which separate the mind from the body when stud ...
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Journal ArticleFront Psychol · 2023
OBJECTIVE: Emerging literature suggests contextual factors are important components of therapeutic encounters and may substantially influence clinical outcomes of a treatment intervention. At present, a single consensus definition of contextual factors, wh ...
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Journal ArticleResearch on Social Work Practice · October 1, 2022
Purpose: A formative evaluation examined the acceptability and feasibility of tiny homes for people living with serious mental illness (SMI). Methods: The evaluation included four focus groups with people with SMI and service providers (n = 28) and eight o ...
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Journal ArticleJ Autism Dev Disord · January 2022
Depression is a common comorbidity in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Little is known about risk factors for depression and depressive symptoms in this population. Ecological momentary assessment (EMA) has been used in the typically developing population t ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Occup Ther · November 1, 2021
IMPORTANCE: Managing health requires extensive time and effort, especially in the early stages of a new illness. Although important, health management occupations contribute to treatment burden, disrupt engagement in other occupations, and galvanize the in ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Occup Ther · September 1, 2021
IMPORTANCE: The recovery model in mental health involves person-driven care and informed decision making to enhance engagement in meaningful activities and inclusion in society. To facilitate the recovery process, occupational therapy practitioners must su ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Occupational Science · January 1, 2021
Occupational scientists across the globe are increasingly attending to social change and its connection to occupation and communities. The discipline is actively studying the role of communal everyday doing in social movements, community development, and s ...
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Journal ArticleCan J Occup Ther · April 2020
BACKGROUND.: The Canadian Association of Occupational Therapists (CAOT) and the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA) state that occupational justice is part of the domain of occupational therapy and that occupational justice is "an aspect of co ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Speech Lang Pathol · February 7, 2020
Purpose Because people with aphasia (PWA) frequently interact with partners who are unresponsive to their communicative attempts, we investigated how partner responsiveness affects quantitative measures of spoken language and subjective reactions during st ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Occupational Science · January 2, 2020
Occupational science scholars continue to debate the conceptualization of and processes related to occupational engagement. Despite active acknowledgement of the hierarchical and situated nature of occupational engagement, there is a paucity of evidence re ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Occup Ther · 2020
IMPORTANCE: Despite the growing literature on the association of functional, physical, and quality-of-life (QOL) deficits with poor postoperative outcomes, there is a gap in the literature identifying women's occupational performance needs after ovarian ca ...
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Journal ArticleJ Speech Lang Hear Res · June 19, 2019
Purpose The aims of the study were to determine dual-task effects on content accuracy, delivery speed, and perceived effort during narrative discourse in people with moderate, mild, or no aphasia and to explore subjective reactions to retelling a story wit ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Occupational Science · April 3, 2018
Since the time of Descartes, western science has tended to separate and prioritize the mind over the body when studying human behavior. Consequently, the corporeal dimension of human activity is often overlooked in studies of participation in meaningful oc ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Occupational Science · April 3, 2018
Cutchin’s commentary on Bailliard, Carroll, and Dallman (2018) posed the question “how can/should the micro and macro be related so that they are viewed as part of the same processes of occupation and life?” (p. 238). This response engages Cutchin’s questi ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Occup Ther · 2017
PURPOSE: Sensory approaches to mental illness are increasingly prominent in occupational therapy. Despite indicators of efficacy, a paucity of literature supports these approaches. This article provides a scoping review of research on the relationship betw ...
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Journal ArticleInternational Migration · April 1, 2016
Immigration policy in Canada has recently shifted, reflecting changes in other Western countries. We studied the discursive constructions of forced migrants within Bill C-31 "Protecting Canada's Immigration System Act" and its associated Backgrounder docum ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Occupational Science · January 2, 2016
Promoting occupational justice is a complex endeavor riddled with potential pitfalls. To avoid causing unintentional harm and articulate their relevance to collaborators, it is important for occupational scientists to continuously deepen their philosophica ...
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Journal ArticleCan J Occup Ther · February 2015
BACKGROUND: Video methods are used by numerous academic disciplines researching human action. Occupational therapists and scientists have primarily employed video data to enumerate subcomponents of occupational behaviour, to conduct reliability tests, and ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Occup Ther · 2015
OBJECTIVE: In occupational therapy, research has studied sensory function predominantly in relation to sensory disorders. There is a gap in the literature exploring how sensory experiences affect mental health. This study sought to provide a phenomenologic ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Occupational Science · October 1, 2013
Latinos migrate to Smalltown (pseudonym), USA in search of the American Dream. Instead, they face an oppressive situation in which they struggle to make ends meet. This paper presents focused findings from an ethnographic study with a migrant Latino commun ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Occupational Science · June 10, 2013
Latino migration to the United States has substantially increased in past decades. This paper presents findings from an ethnographic study with the migrant Latino community of Smalltown (pseudonym), North Carolina. Analyses of participant observations and ...
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Chapter · March 1, 2013
Studying occupation from a transactional perspective calls for a focus on the relationships that constitute the situation of occupation. In this chapter we discuss the fit of ethnographic processes and the transactional perspective. We propose that the eth ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Occupational Science · January 1, 2008
Occupational scientists have argued that occupation implies action, but they have not produced sufficient analyses of action theories as potential bases for understanding occupation. We describe this situation and the corresponding need to theorize action ...
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