Florence Clark, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA, is President of AOTA and Professor, Associate Dean, and Chair of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, University of Southern California, 1540 Alcazar Street, CHP 133, Los Angeles, CA 90089; [email protected] Clark, F. (2010). High-definition occupational therapy: HD OT (Inaugural Presidential Address). American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 64, 848–8...

Dominic Harmon, MD, is Consultant, Department of Pain Medicine, Mid-Western Regional Hospital, Limerick, Republic of Ireland. The World Health Organization (2002) has identified chronic conditions such as chronic pain as increasing at an alarming rate. Given the incidence and consequences of chronic pain (Breivik, Collet, Ventafridda, Cohen, & Gallacher, 2006) and occupational therapy’s potenti...

September/October 2004, Volume 58, Number 5 The Occupational Therapy Practice Framework: Domain and Process (Framework; American Occupational Therapy Association [AOTA], 2002) specifies that all occupational therapy evaluation must begin with an occupational therapy profile and an analysis of occupational performance (AOTA, 2002). This document requires that a top-down approach to evaluation be...

background :fieldwork education is a core part of all occupational therapy curriculums around the world to enable the students meet minimum competencies required for their professional life. student experience is a valuable source to explore the nature of fieldwork training and plan more efficient curriculums in the future. this study aimed to explore the students' experiences in the first fiel...

background: nowadays, schizophrenia is one of the most important disabling mental disorders in the world. regarding to occupational therapy as one of the most essential treatment for this disorder, the main aim of this study is to determine the effect of it on negative symptoms of schizophrenias patients. methods: this study is a clinical trials research and the samples were 84 schizophrenia pa...

Occupational science, an outgrowth of occupational therapy, is an emerging basic science that has been defined as the systematic study of humans as occupational beings (Clark et aI., 1991; Yerxa et aI., 1989). The research and theory development that emanates from occupational science is intended to enhance both the scholarly foundation and professional practice of occupational therapy (Clark, ...

The profession of occupational therapy promotes individuals to achieve health and wellness through engagement in meaningful occupations of daily living. This occupation-focused profession plays a critical role in health care in a multitude of settings with a wide range of clients. The paper highlights a global overview of the philosophies of occupational therapy, the current international pract...

PURPOSE Recently, home health services have been a topic of increasing interest. Occupational therapy practice and utilization patterns in home care have not been the subject of recent research. METHOD I examined 65 publications addressing current occupational therapy practice in U.S. home health. Articles were analyzed to uncover factors influencing occupational therapy utilization and pract...