Occupational Therapy Publications

 

Research in Occupational Therapy Publications is concerned with enabling occupations to promote health, well-being, social inclusion and social justice at individual, family, community and societal levels. Research topics include work related injuries, physical activity, environmental factors of well-being and, rehabilitation. Topics include global access to treatment, radiotherapy and various surgical approaches.

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Submissions from 2024

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Participatory Research with Persons who Experience Mental Illness in Occupational Therapy: A Scoping Review., Elham Javadizadeh, Abram Oudshoorn, Lori Letts, Skye Barbic, Chelsea Shanoff, and Carrie Anne Marshall

Submissions from 2023

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Critiquing representations of intellectual disability in occupation-based literature, Rachel Reparon, Pamela Block, Ann Fudge Schormans, Debbie Laliberte Rudman, and Gail Teachman

Submissions from 2022

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Promoting critically informed learning and knowing about occupation through conference engagements, Rebecca Aldrich, Roshan Galvaan, Alison Gerlach, Debbie Rudman, Lilian Magalhaes, Nick Pollard, and Lisette Farias

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Situating occupational injustices experienced by children with disabilities in rural India within sociocultural, economic, and systemic conditions, Tanya Elizabeth Benjamin-Thomas, Debbie Rudman, Colleen McGrath, Debra Cameron, Vinod Joseph Abraham, Jeshuran Gunaseelan, and Samuel Prasanna Vinothkumar

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Social Isolation, Third Places, and Precarious Employment Circumstances: A Scoping Review, Debbie Laliberte Rudman and Rebecca M. Aldrich

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"Making change by shared doing": An examination of occupation in processes of social transformation in five case studies., Sandra Schiller, Hanneke van Bruggen, Sarah Kantartzis, Debbie Rudman, Ryan Lavalley, and Nick Pollard

Submissions from 2021

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Enacting Contextually Responsive Scholarship: Centring Occupation in Participatory Action Research with Children in India, Tanya Elizabeth Benjamin-Thomas, Debbie Laliberte Rudman, and David Mark Thomas

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Mobilizing occupation for social transformation: Radical resistance, disruption, and re-configuration, Debbie Rudman

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Producing precarity: The individualization of later life unemployment within employment support provision, Debbie Rudman and Rebecca Aldrich

Submissions from 2020

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Occupational Therapists as Street-Level Bureaucrats: Leveraging the Political Nature of Everyday Practice., Rebecca M Aldrich and Debbie Rudman

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Centering the Complexity of Long-Term Unemployment: Lessons Learned from a Critical Occupational Science Inquiry, Rebecca Aldrich, Debbie Rudman, Na Eon(Esther) Park, and Suzanne Huot

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A systematic review of occupational therapy interventions in the transition from homelessness, Roxanne Isard Ms., Carrie Anne Marshall, Leonie Boland, Lee Ann Westover, and Sharon A. Gutman

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The Occupational Therapy Examination and Practice Preparation (OTepp) Program: Development, Implementation and Evaluation of an Educational Program for Internationally-Educated Occupational Therapists, Colleen E. McGrath

Submissions from 2019

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A participatory filmmaking process with children with disabilities in rural India: Working towards inclusive research, Colleen E. McGrath

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A Protocol Paper on the Preservation of Identity: Understanding the Technology Adoption Patterns of Older Adults With Age-Related Vision Loss (ARVL), Colleen E. McGrath

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Initiating Participatory Action Research with Older Adults: Lessons Learned through Reflexivity*, Colleen E. McGrath

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‘That's for old so and so's!’: does identity influence older adults’ technology adoption decisions?, Colleen E. McGrath

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Using Participant Observation to Enable Critical Understandings of Disability in Later Life: An Illustration Conducted With Older Adults With Low Vision, Colleen E. McGrath

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Engaging the occupational imagination: Meeting in diversity, Debbie Rudman

Submissions from 2018

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Expanding beyond individualism: Engaging critical perspectives on occupation., Alison J Gerlach, Gail Teachman, Debbie Rudman, Rebecca M Aldrich, and Suzanne Huot

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Understanding Parkinson’s Through Visual Narratives: “I’m Not Mrs. Parkinson’s”, S. G. Lutz, Jeffrey D. Holmes, D. Rudman, A. M. Johnson, K. LaDonna, and M. E. Jenkins

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Working Towards the Promise of Participatory Action Research: Learning From Ageing Research Exemplars, Colleen E. McGrath

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Using Eye-Tracking Technology for Communication in Rett Syndrome: Perceptions of Impact, Kelli Vessoyan, Gill Steckle, Barb Easton, Megan Nichols, Victoria Mok Siu, and Janette McDougall

Submissions from 2017

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Resource Seeking as Occupation: A Critical and Empirical Exploration., Rebecca M Aldrich, Debbie Rudman, and Virginia A Dickie

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Precarity in the Nonprofit Employment Services Sector, Carlo Fanelli, Debbie Rudman, and Rebecca Aldrich