Mapping Occupational Therapy Practice with Postsecondary Students: A Scoping Review

Background: Legislation supports a role for occupational therapy in postsecondary settings, but this area is not a common practice area and the practice area is not well understood. This scoping review maps current literature of occupational therapists working with students in postsecondary settings in order to inform future research and practice. Method: After identifying included articles, a narrative description of the quantitative studies along with a concept map were completed. A qualitative thematic analysis of the articles was also conducted. Results: Twenty-five articles met the inclusion criteria. Quantitative results describe occupational therapy services as both a direct and indirect service provided through offices of disability services, assistive technology, and supported education programs, among others. The primary population with whom occupational therapists engage with are students with mental illness. Three qualitative themes emerged from the scoping review, including the focus on occupation and skills needed for success, using the campus environment, and campus collaboration. Conclusion: The structure of occupational therapy services varies from location to location and occupational therapists work with various populations of students. Future research needs to support the distinct value of occupational therapy in this practice area, including the scope and outcomes of occupational therapy services with different populations of students

Elevating student understanding: Irish occupational therapy students’ experience of a service learning project

Service learning is a pedagogy that embraces learning in action and addresses community needs. Since the adoption of the Occupational Therapy Competencies in 2008 and the launch of national occupational therapist registration in Ireland in 2015, there has been limited research on the effectiveness of service learning pedagogies in Irish higher education for meeting core competencies. The majority of research focusing on evaluating service learning have been North American studies which brings to question the relevance of these service learning outcomes beyond North America and specifically Ireland. This qualitative study examined 11 occupational therapy students’ journal reflections, portfolio entries, and focus group discussions to illuminate their experience of participating in a peer coaching program called Elevate at a major Irish university. Results indicated the experience of working with a “buddy” allowed them to apply skills learned in the classroom to the “real world”, navigate between personal and professional boundaries, and struggle with “taking a step back” to empower the client. Students reported the experience helped them to prepare for future practice and increased their confidence going into clinical placement. Professional programs might consider service learning as a signature pedagogy, providing scaffolding between in-class activities and clinical placements and elevating student levels of understanding

Promoting Mental Health Occupational Therapy in Higher Education: Lifestyle Redesign® for the College Student

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Troops to Trojans

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Dating as an Occupation: Swipe Right for OT

Background As occupational therapists (OTs) we claim to treat our clients holistically, yet despite research indicating the importance of sexuality in practice (White et al 1992, Northcott and Chard 2000) sexuality and the occupations surrounding it, such as dating, can often be ignored in practice. Sexuality is expressed through many forms including sexual activity, self care and dating. As OTs, how often do we acknowledge or actively address a client’s desire to find a partner and the occupations that surround such a goal? Krishnagiri discusses “mate selection” as an important occupation with rich cultural and personal significance to the person (Krishnagiri, 1996). By failing to adequately respond to and include dating occupations in our clients’ goals and priorities, we run the risk of not practicing in a client centered and holistic manner. Methods An analysis of occupational science literature will be conducted to argue the relevance of dating as an occupation. Case stories and sample dating coaching interventions will be discussed. Intervention Examples from client case stories surrounding dating goals and interventions will be shared. Outcomes Client outcomes will be explored through narratives and individual goal attainment. Implications When it comes to the occupation of dating or mate selection, OTs are key professionals in helping clients to achieve their goals in this area. OTs can embrace dating coaching as part of their existing practice and implications for specialising in dating coaching will be discussed

Dating as an Occupation: Swipe Right for Occupational Therapy

At a first glance, these may look like personal ads you might in the past have found in any newspaper classified section, yet they could be mini occupational profiles that represent your clients. Each profile contains information about the client, their interests and passions, their values, and their goals and dreams for meeting a partner. Personal ads, once so public for everyone who opened a newspaper to read, have now moved onto the vast and complicated world of online dating. The game has changed, with 15% of adults in the United States reporting they have used online dating sites or mobile dating applications (apps), and with more than 1,000 dating websites and apps, terms like Tinder, Grinder, OkCupid, Plenty of Fish, Bumble, CoffeeMeetsBagel, EHarmony, and JDate can sound like someone is speaking another language (Smith & Anderson, 2016). The occupation of dating has quickly evolved, with modern romance becoming a multibillion dollar industry and a priority occupation for many of our clients. ~article excerpt

Coming Out : The Occupational Impact for Gay Men

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“The Incest Plot” in John Banville’s Ancient Light

Ancient Light (2012), o terceiro e (até hoje) livro final da série Alexander and Cass Cleave de John Banville é um texto no qual os personagens que morreram nos livros anteriores são reciclados e trazidos de volta, como papeis em um filme, interpretado por personagens cuja caracterização em si se confunde com os papeis que estão interpretando. A preocupação estabelecida de Banville com o retorno ao passado e o retrocesso do passado adquire uma dimensão intrigantemente excessiva neste romance. Ancient Light apresenta uma versão mais acentuada do que Neil Murphy chamou de “mundo intertextual banvilleano entrelaçado” (86). Este artigo analisará o romance usando as ideias de Stephanie Insley Hershinow sobre “o enredo incestuoso”. Ela chama esta estrutura de “modelo de autoencerramento tautológico - o abraço da mansidão, da repetição, até mesmo da redundância, sobre a mudança” (150). Afirmo que a própria infra-estrutura do romance é um “autoencerramento tautológico”. As características de “auto-samudez, repetição [e] redundância” são inescapáveis neste romance, e a “mudança” convencionalmente oferecida por terceiros livros em trilogias simplesmente não deve ser encontrada na terceira parcela incessantemente auto-referencial de Banville. Em sua discussão sobre o incesto como forma, Hershinow afirma que “destacar a forma é a única maneira de ver as formas que o incesto excede suas manifestações literais” (156). Ela ainda sugere que o incesto “é uma forma de o romance explorar a quantidade mínima de diferença necessária para que a narrativa continue a funcionar como tal, para experimentar o minimalismo da narrativa” (ibidem). A estrutura da trama, assim como uma interpretação mais literal do “incesto” será minada, dado que o desejo do narrador por sua filha morta Cass é a principal força animadora por trás da narrativa.Ancient Light (2012), the third and (to date) final book in the Alexander and Cass Cleave series by John Banville, is a text in which characters who died in the previous books are recycled and brought back as roles in a film, played by characters whose characterisation itself blurs with the roles they are playing. Banville’s established preoccupation with returning to the past and retracing old ground takes on an intriguingly excessive dimension in this novel. Ancient Light presents a heightened version of what Neil Murphy has referred to as an “interlocked intertextual Banvillean world” (86). This article will examine the book using Stephanie Insley Hershinow’s ideas around “the incest plot.” She calls this structure a “model of tautological self-enclosure – the embrace of self-sameness, repetition, even redundancy, over change” (150). My claim is that the novel’s very infrastructure is one of “tautological self-enclosure.” The features of “self-sameness, repetition [and] redundancy” are inescapable in this novel, and the “change” conventionally offered by third books in trilogies is simply not to be encountered in Banville’s relentlessly self-referential third instalment. In her discussion of incest as form, Hershinow contends that “highlighting form is the only way to see the ways that incest exceeds its literal manifestations” (156). She further suggests that incest “is a way for the novel to explore the minimal amount of difference required for narrative to continue to function as such, to experiment with narrative minimalism” (ibid.). The plot structure, as well as a more literal interpretation of ‘incest’ will be mined, given that the narrator’s desire for his dead daughter Cass is the primary animating force behind the narrative

The inferior caval vein draining into the left atrial cavity : a rare case

The inferior vena cava (IVC) draining into the left atrium (LA) is exceedingly rare in the setting of the usual atrial arrangement (situs solitus). This article describes a patient with this unique anomaly, and its repair.peer-reviewe