Collaborative consultation has been widely adopted in school-based occupational therapy practice; however, limited research has examined how collaboration between educators and occupational therapists contributes to students’ outcomes. The purpose of this study was to describe the nature of collaborative working in two cases of school-based occupational therapy service delivery. This paper repo...

Social justice and occupational justice have received increased attention in the occupational therapy literature. This evolving discourse has focused on establishing a connection between the effects of social injustice and the resulting negative influences on occupational participation. This literature has also addressed the role of occupational therapists in responding to social injustice at t...

"Intraprofessional Team BUilding" in the September 1987 issue (pp. 576582) was a pertinent and stimulating article ro me. Our Psychosocial Occupational Therapy Department at Christ Hospital and Medical Center consists of seven occu pational therapists (OTRs) and nine occupational therapy assistants (COTAs) who work together on occupational therapy teams. A typical team includes one therapist as...

OBJECTIVE Whether the environment is stressed in function-dysfunction decisions appears to depend on where in the hierarchy of components of complex tasks and of role skills the evaluating therapist is focused. This study examined the intervention planning decisions of occupational therapists who used the Model of Student Role Adaptation, which emphasizes the complex tasks involved in the stude...

Kelly Allen, an occupational therapist and artist based in Grand Rapids, MI, provided the cover art for Spring 2021 edition of Open Journal Occupational Therapy (OJOT). “Follow” is a 16” x 20” painting made from oil on panel. The painting, which features coati Central America, Kelly’s Animal Totem series. After more than 2 decades as fine educator, she began searching career change. background ...

Bruno Fles Mazuquin1 (Physical Therapist) Ligia Maxwell Pereira2 (Physical Therapist) Josilainne Marcelino Dias2 (Physical Therapist) João Pedro Batista Junior3 (Physical Therapist) Mônica Angélica Cardoso Silva4 (Physical Therapist) Matheus Elmer Finatti4 (Physical Therapist) Lucas Carvalho Leme5 (Physical Education) Rodrigo Luiz Carregaro6 (Physical Therapist) Felipe Arruda Moura2 (Physical E...