Background: It is the responsibility of each occupational therapist to always act ethically and professionally in a clinical setting. However, there is little information available concerning the factors influencing ethical behavior of occupational therapists at work. Since no study has been conducted in Iran on this topic, this qualitative study aimed to identify the factors influencing ethica...

Visual observation is a fundamental skill underlying all occupational performance assessments in occupational therapy. The purpose of this study was to determine whether eye movement patterns differ between occupational therapists and non-healthcare professionals during observation of static images portraying a client post-stroke (domain-specific content) or naturalistic scenes (domain-irreleva...

This article presents a model evaluation plan conducted by occupational therapists that may be used to contribute information to the transition planning process in secondary school students with disabilities. Occupational therapists are not fully participating in transition services within secondary schools. One of the major obstacles to full participation identified in a previous research stud...

The American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA) developed the Occupational Therapy Practice Framework: Domain and Process (the Framework) to categorize and organize concepts in the field of occupational therapy in a manner that would be understandable to practitioners within the field as well as to external readers. The current study investigates the degree to which occupational therapists...

The family occupies an important role in the lives of persons with a physical, developmental, or mental disability; however, the extent and manner in which occupational therapists work with families is not known. A questionnaire concerning family-therapist involvement was sent to occupational therapists. Responses of 340 occupational therapists with a primary practice area of physical disabilit...

Children who "fail to thrive" are frequently referred to occupational therapists. Yet there is no organized protocol that therapists could use to assess these children. This paper reviews criteria that distinguish organic from nonorganic "failure to thrive" and describes the occupational therapist's contribution to the evaluation process. An occupational therapy protocol is presented to facilit...

Thzs is the first in a serzes of artzcles addressing critical issues facing the profession. Those issues are presented to inform members of their complexity and to provide members with specific actions they can take to support the continued strengthemng of the role of occupational therapy in health and educatzon. Thzs article was prepared by Jane D. Davy, OTR, and Mary Peters, M.S., OTR, Govern...

AIM The aim of this study was to investigate how occupational therapists in Sweden administer housing adaptation cases, how they perceive the housing adaptation process, and which improvements they consider necessary. METHODS A total of 1 679 occupational therapists employed by the county councils or the local authorities (and involved in housing adaptations) participated in a web-based surve...