To meet the needs of complex and/or underserved patient populations, health care professionals must possess diverse backgrounds, qualities, and skill sets. Holistic review has been used to diversify student admissions through examination of non-cognitive attributes of health car…
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There is mental health crisis affecting America’s children and youth and a significant gap exists between professional knowledge and the practical application of prevention and intervention strategies for this population. Since children spend a significant portion of their wakin…
Occupational Therapy is a client centred, holistic allied health profession in which the quality of a supportive, empowering therapist-client relationship is seen as having a key and central role in effective therapy. A minimum of a 1000 hours of practice placement education (PP…
Rehabilitation outcomes are an important measurement of trauma system effectiveness. However, currently there is no clinically applicable trauma rehabilitation score or framework available to evaluate health and rehabilitation needs after trauma. The World report on Disability (…
The aim of this study was to examine, understand and conceptualise the critical thinking and clinical reasoning adopted by new graduate occupational therapists as they enter the workforce to become newly autonomous practitioners. The study obtained the perspectives of new gradua…
There is a rising presence of students with disabilities on college campuses and yet, many campuses are not architecturally equipped to accommodate students with physical disabilities or limitations. This study assesses the physical accessibility of the Russell Sage College camp…
Family-Centred Functional Therapy (FCFT) is a comprehensive approach to paediatric occupational therapy that considers and addresses the skills of the child, the requirements of functional tasks and the elements within the tasks environment, including family goals and preference…
Participation in occupation during military service can have a long-term impact on the health, well-being and successful aging of older U.S. military veterans. The aging literature has shown that older U.S. military veterans may be more resilient and aging more successfully than…
A major dilemma that is being addressed in the current project is the discrepancies between healthcare system's expectations for a rapid and successful rehabilitation process and patients after having a stroke ability to meet these expectations while striving to adapt to the cal…
Occupational therapists work in the school setting as related service providers, helping those students with an Individual Education Plan (IEP) access their special education curriculum. As part of the development of the IEP process, each student is supposed to be assessed for t…
Older adults experience subtle cognitive changes that may impact their everyday activities, particularly Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADL's). These cognitive deficits may affect functional cognitive abilities in older adults within clinical and community settings. B…
According to the National Spinal Cord Injury Statistical Center (NSCISC, 2006), SCI is a nationwide issue and its annual incidence worldwide has been reported to be between 11.5 and 57.8 cases per million population. In the United States, the estimated incidence rate of new SCI …
Traumatic brain injuries (TBI) in the military continue to be widely researched and discussed. TBI incidence has been on the rise in the military population and directly coincides with the recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It is estimated that 57 million individuals worldwide…
More than 2.3 million Americans have served in Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF), Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF), and Operation New Dawn (OND) since 2001 (Helmer, 2011). As these veterans return to civilian life they are at risk of experiencing disturbances in their ability to eng…
Since October 2001, our nation has had a continuous presence of service members in Afghanistan to support Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF). Since 2003, the United States had service members in Iraq to support Operation Iraqi Freedom (OW) with the last troops to leave in December…
This exploratory repeated-measure study investigated the presence of stress reactions and coping mechanisms following traumatic upper limb injuries in 70 Arabic-speaking adults in Kuwait and the influence on hand impairment status. Data were collected twice, at the time of admit…
There are many problems that exist specifically for women, as they grow older. Because of changing circumstances, many older women realize that they must relocate to alternative forms of housing. For some this may be a choice; for others it may be a necessity due to changes in h…
Dezavantajlılık, günümüzde her toplumda gittikçe önemi artmakta, tartışılmakta ve çözüm önerileri ve uygulamaları geliştirilmeye çalışılmakta olan bir sorundur. Yaşlılar, bağımlılar, sokakta yaşayan çocuklar, göçmenler vb. grupların yanı sıra bu tez çalışmasının konusu olan enge…