Abstract Date Presented 04/21/2023 Students expressed difficulties implementing occupation-based practice (OBP) on Level II fieldwork and requested opportunities for interactive learning, examples of OBP, focus instruction to facilitate their education in OBP. Primary Author Speaker: Mackenzie L. Walker Additional Authors Speakers: Amanda K. Giles

Children's learning to do everyday activities seems so obvious that the mechanisms bringing about the development of occupations remain essentially unstudied. Therefore, occupational therapy uses developmental models from other disciplines as foundation for practice. We specialists in childhood occupations need a theory-based and empirically tested body of knowledge about the processes leading ...

This systematic review examines the effectiveness of occupation- and activity-based interventions on community-dwelling older adults' performance of instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs). It was conducted as part of the American Occupational Therapy Association's Evidence-Based Practice Project. Forty studies met the inclusion criteria and were critically appraised and synthesized. Wi...