Occupational Science for Occupational Therapyarticulates how occupational science research produces unique insights into occupation and increases the effectiveness of occupational therapy interventions. This text illustrates the four key types of knowledge now being researched in occupational science: descriptive, relational, predictive, and prescriptive. This text also offers a comprehensive review of occupational science’s history of emergence from the needs and interests of occupational therapy, conflicting origins and intents, and ongoing development as a discipline within academia.
In Occupational Science for Occupational Therapy, Dr. Doris Pierce and an outstanding group of occupational scientists explain how their discoveries build the science and support practice. A rich variety of methods and perspectives mark the work of these career scientists as they respond to the knowledge base needs of occupational therapy.
This fully evidence-based text also brings the research experience alive for occupational therapy students, describing the passions, challenges, and choices that are the reality of research as an occupation. All research chapters discuss how findings build both science and practice, including learning supports in which students can try out research activities, explore assessment, or develop interventions. Most importantly, Occupational Science for Occupational Therapyprovides new and experienced practitioners a thorough exploration of the latest research in occupation-based practice.
Occupational Science for Occupational Therapy synthesizes key works by occupational scientists, including a foreword by Dr. Elizabeth Yerxa, founder of the science. Occupational therapy and occupational science students, practitioners, and faculty will especially appreciate this book’s comprehensive coverage of work by current leaders of research on occupation-based practice.
Acknowledgments
About the Editor
Contributing Authors
Foreword by Elizabeth J. Yerxa, EdD, LhD (Hon.), ScD (Hon.), DMed (Hon.), OTR, FAOTA
Introduction
Chapter 1Occupational Science: A Powerful Disciplinary Knowledge Base for Occupational Therapy
Doris Pierce, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA
Section ILevel 1 Research: How Does Occupational Science Provide Descriptive
Knowledge to Strengthen Occupational Therapy?
Chapter 2Occupational Science Research Describing Occupation
Doris Pierce, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA
Chapter 3The Occupation of Caregiving
Betty Risteen Hasselkus, PhD, OTR, FAOTA
Chapter 4A Research Program on the Occupation of Mate Selection
Sheama Krishnagiri, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA
Chapter 5Environmental Influences on Daily Time Use and Well-Being
Wendy H. Wood, PhD, OTR, FAOTA
Chapter 6In Search of Graphical Methods to Describe Morning Routines in Occupational Science
Charlotte Brasic Royeen, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA
Section IILevel 2 Research: How Does Occupational Science Provide Knowledge of
Relations Between Occupation and Other Phenomena?
Chapter 7Relational Research in Occupational Science
Doris Pierce, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA
Chapter 8Participation of Children With Physical Disabilities in Everyday Occupations
Mary Law, PhD, FCAOT, FCAHS and Gillian King, PhD
Chapter 9Participation and Engagement in Occupation in Adults With Disabilities
Lisa Tabor Connor, PhD; Timothy J. Wolf, OTD, MSCI, OTR/L;
Erin R. Foster, OTD, MSCI; Mary W. Hildebrand, OTD, OTR/L; and
Carolyn M. Baum, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA
Chapter 10Living With HIV Infection: Insights Into Occupational Markers of
Health and Occupational Adaptation
Matthew Molineux, BOccThy, MSc, PhD; Jenny Strong, BOccThy, MOccThy, PhD; and
Wendy Rickard, PhD
Chapter 11Different Ways of Doing Food: Cultural Influences on Food Preparation
Clare Hocking, PhD, NZROT; Anne Shordike, PhD, OTR/L; Soisuda Vittayakorn, BS;
Wannipa Bunrayong, PhD; Phuanjai Rattakorn, PhD;
Valerie A. Wright-St Clair, PhD, MPH, DipProfEthics, DipBusStudies, DipOccTherapy; and
Doris Pierce, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA
Chapter 12Reflecting on the Socially Situated and Constructed Nature of Occupation:
A Research Program Addressing the Contemporary Restructuring of Retirement
Debbie Laliberte Rudman, PhD, OT Reg (ON)
Chapter 13Intimate Partner Violence: Balancing Issues of Identity, Disability Culture, and
Occupational Justice to Inform Occupational Therapy Practice
Diane L. Smith, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA and Claudia List Hilton, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA
Chapter 14Enacting Occupational Justice in Research and Policy Development:
Highlighting the Experience of Occupational Deprivation in Forced Migration169
Gail Whiteford, BAppSc (Occ Therapy), MHSc (Occ Therapy), PhD
Section IIILevel 3 Research: How Does Occupational Science Provide
Predictive Knowledge to Support Occupational Therapy?
Chapter 15Predictive Research in Occupational Science
Doris Pierce, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA
Chapter 16The Daily Experiences of Pleasure, Productivity and Restoration Profile:
A Measure of Subjective Experiences
Karen Atler, PhD, OTR
Chapter 17Development of the Self-Discovery Tapestry
Phyllis J. Meltzer, PhD, MSG, MS
Chapter 18Researching Retirement: Studies That Lead to New Ways to Look at Freedom and the
Categorization of Occupation
Hans Jonsson, OT(reg), PhD
Chapter 19Understanding the Development of Occupational Potential Over Time Through the
Analysis of Life Stories
Alison Wicks, PhD, MHSc(OT), BAppSc(OT)
Chapter 20The Exploration of Quality of Life Through Q Methodology
Susan Corr, DipCOT, MPhil, PhD and Alexandra Palombi, BSc OT (hons), MSC OT
Section IVLevel 4 Research: How Does Occupational Science Enhance
Occupational Therapy Through Research on Occupation in Practice?
Chapter 21Occupation in Practice
Doris Pierce, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA
Chapter 22The Test of Grocery Shopping Skills: Assessing Occupation in a Natural Environment
Catana Brown, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA and Melisa Rempfer, PhD
Chapter 23How Occupation Emerges in the Practices of Occupational Therapists:
Therapeutic Strategies That Address Occupation
Pollie Price, PhD, OTR/L
Chapter 24Pediatric Therapists’ Perceptions of the Dynamics of Occupation-Based Practice
Joanne Phillips Estes, MS, OTR/L and Doris Pierce, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA
Chapter 25Developing an Integrated Occupational Science Research Program:
The USC Well Elderly and Pressure Ulcer Prevention Studies
Florence A. Clark, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA; Jeanne Jackson, PhD, OTR, FAOTA; and
Elizabeth A. Pyatak, PhD, OTR/L
Chapter 26Enhancing Occupation-Based Practice at Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center
Michele Berro, MA, OTR/L and Lisa Deshaies, OTR/L, CHT
Chapter 27The Use of Occupation in Hand Therapy
Donna Colaianni, PhD, OTR/L, CHT and Ingrid Provident, EdD, OTR/L
Chapter 28Putting Knowledge of Occupation to Work for Youth at Risk
Elaine Fehringer, MA, OTR/L; Amy Marshall, PhD, OTR/L; Karen Summers, MS, OTR/L; and
Doris Pierce, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA
Chapter 29Occupational Science for Occupational Therapy: A Look Into the Future
Doris Pierce, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA
Financial Disclosures
Index
Biography
Doris Pierce PhD OTR/L FAOTA, Endowed Chair in Occupational Therapy, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, Kentucky. She began her career with a BS in Occupational Therapy from Ohio State University, followed by an MA in Occupational Therapy and a PhD in Occupational Science from the University of Southern California. She has been a paediatric therapist for 30 years, trained at Ayres Clinic and operated a private practice in greater Los Angeles area for more than 10 years, serving infants and children in home, school, aquatic and therapeutic riding settings. Dr. Pierce is a leading occupational scientist, centrally concerned with examining and strategically developing the theoretical potential of occupational science to support the knowledge base needs of occupational therapy.
“The first book to combine the science and the profession, this is an excellent resource for students, practitioners, and researchers. As both disciplines continue to evolve, it is important to be cognizant of how each influences the other.”
- Yvonne M. Randall, EdD, OTR/L, FAOTA, Touro University Nevada, Doody’s Review Service“As the title suggests, the book is founded on the premise that occupational science and the practice of occupational therapy are highly interrelated and interdependent. Whether you subscribe to this notion or not, you will find research-based discussions informing occupational science and therapy from a stellar cast of known and emergent occupational scientists between the book’s covers.”
- From AUT University, Department of Rehabilitation & Occupation Studies, Spotlight on Occupation
