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Occupation-Based Practice Needs Occupation-Based Assessments: The Loss of the AMPS Family Assessments and How We Move Forward from Here
Get PDFThe Occupational Therapy Domain and Process identifies participation in life activities as a key aspect of occupational therapy’s domain. It also identifies assessment as a key process in our practice. Still, few commonly used assessments use real, meaningful activities in real context to identify what factors are affecting performance. The AMPS family of assessments were among the only assessments used for these purposes. Because of a series of factors, these assessments recently became unavailable for new users and are no longer supported by a central organization. This paper explores the strengths and needs for these types of assessments, the factors that affected the continued survival of these assessments, and ways that we can return them, or similar assessments, to use in OT practice
From Theory to Practice: Integrating Safe Patient Handling and Mobility into Occupational Therapy Curriculum (Part 1/2)
Get PDFOccupational therapists are at high-risk of musculoskeletal injury because of the manual and physical demands of job-related tasks. Many occupational therapists are sustaining injuries or changing careers because of an injury. Safe patient handling and mobility approaches should be used in occupational therapy practice to ensure the safety of both patient and therapist while assisting patients in meeting occupation-based and patient-centered goals. However, despite legislation, guidelines from the American Occupational Therapy Association, and recent evidence, most occupational therapy academic programs and educators continue to teach manual patient handling as the standard of practice. To ensure safety, longevity, and career-retention, academic institutions should provide education on safe patient handling and mobility approaches to all students. This is Part 1 of a two-part series
Art, Nature, and Occupational Therapy in the Arctic Circle
Get PDFEven Edvardsen, a Norwegian occupational therapist and artist, provided the cover art for the Winter 2025 issue of the Open Journal of Occupational Therapy (OJOT). “Loppa 1” is a 60 x 80 oil on canvas that shares a glimpse into living in the Arctic Circle. It is the first in a series of 10 variations of the island of Loppa, a small island off the coast of Norway, further north of Tromsø. Even’s paintings are what he calls meditations on nature and everyday moments; he invites viewers to slow down and reconnect with the world around them. In today’s fast-paced world, Even believes art can help restore perspective and mindfulness. He aims to encourage others to find their inner artist and connect with the environment around them with a sense of stillness and wonder
A Translation of John Gower\u27s Cronica Tripertita
Get PDFJohn Gower\u27s account of the last years of Richard II presents an uncompromised condemnation of the king\u27s reign
Preface to A Translation of John Gower\u27s Cronica Tripertita
Get PDFThis preface conveys the editors\u27 introduction to Robert J. Meindl and Mark T. Riley\u27s new poetic English translation of John Gower\u27s Cronica Tripertit
Generations United & The Brookdale Foundation Group: An overview of progress in support of grandfamilies over the last decade
Get PDFStrategic partnerships and collaborations enable organizations that serve grandfamilies to address service gaps and facilitate the development or enhancement of services tailored to support their needs. These collaborative partnerships empower organizations to provide comprehensive support to caregivers and children and also play a crucial role in enabling organizations to create, expand, and maintain supportive services. By fostering strong relationships with a diverse range of partners, organizations can ensure that grandparents and other relative caregiver families receive information, assistance, and support. The authors, representing a national organization and a private foundation, have collaborated for more than 25 years to support grandfamilies. The partnership filled a significant gap in services for relative caregiver families. While child welfare leaders, such as the Child Welfare League of America, had been leading efforts to better understand and support kinship families involved with the child welfare system, no national effort was in place to support grandparents and other relatives raising children who were not in foster care. This partnership has successfully raised awareness about the existence and vital role of grandfamilies, increased access to quality supportive services for these families, impacted the development of supportive public policies, and facilitated the convening and coordination of leaders and practitioners to serve this special population of caregivers collaboratively. This article outlines some of the achievements of this partnership over the last decade, which has led to an extensive array of resources and support for this unique group of caregivers
How Do Welfare Regimes Moderate the Impact of Individual Factors on Citizens\u27 Attitudes Toward the Welfare State? Comparative Analysis of the United States, Germany, and Sweden
No full textThis study examined the effect of the welfare regime on welfare attitudes and the moderating effect on the relationship between individual-level factors and welfare attitudes. Integrating the conditional self-interest perspective with Esping-Andersen’s typology of three welfare regimes, this study hypothesized that institutional differences among the three welfare regimes would moderate the impacts of individual-level factors on welfare attitudes. To test the hypothesis, we analyzed data from the World Values Survey of 5,485 citizens from three countries: the United States, Germany, and Sweden. Results showed that welfare regimes have a significant impact on citizens’ attitudes toward welfare. The study also found that the impact of citizens’ characteristics on welfare attitudes varied across the three welfare regimes. This study found that in the liberal welfare regime, welfare attitudes are stratified by socioeconomic class and political ideology, while in the conservative welfare regime, they are highly convergent. We discussed future research directions based on our findings
“The Most Virile of Monks”: Gender (and) Transformation in the Mystical Writings of Teresa of Ávila.
No full textThis paper traces the patterns of gendering in the writings of the Castilian mystic St. Teresa of Ávila (1515-1582). Teresa’s four mystical texts (her Libro de su Vida, Camino de Perfección, Meditaciones sobre los Cantares, and Las Moradas del Castillo Interior) not only offer contradictory commentaries upon questions of femininity and masculinity but speak of her soul’s experience of mystical transformation in(to) the seemingly male Divine. Drawing upon Hélène Cixous’s notion of écriture féminine, this article traces two interwoven layers within Teresa’s gender dynamics: (1) patterns of gender non-conformity in her teaching and experience, and (2) the gendered implications of her transformation in(to) the Divine. Attending to the queer and transgender resonances of her experience, the article follows the weaves of Teresa’s gender continuum performance as she constructs a hyper-feminine voice to defend women whilst simultaneously lamenting her own womanliness, proclaiming her masculinity, and calling upon her daughters to follow her model. This gender continuum performance is then situated within the function of writing within Teresa’s mystical transformation, considering the implications for a gendered voice produced through a soul that is irrevocably intertwined with the male Divine. By bringing these two layers into dialogue, I argue that Teresa presents not only an inherently critical attitude towards gender, but that her writings weave a tangled web of gender multiplicity which reflects that which she encounters in the Divine
“I Have Never Enjoyed Writing…” Exploring Pre-Service Teachers’ Divergent Perspectives and Responding to Student Writing
No full textUnderstanding of pre-service teachers’ [PSTs’] growth in practice is foundational to making the most of available opportunities in writing teacher preparation programs. We sought to examine differences in PSTs’ changes in reading and responding to student writing when their perspectives diverge from each other. Three PSTs enrolled in one learning-to-teach-writing course participated. Our comparisons of PSTs’ initial and end-of-semester reading and responding revealed varied changes within their core practice. PSTs’ variations displayed alignment to their divergent writing attitudes and beliefs. The results highlight the need for more nuanced attention to PSTs\u27 growth in practice in future writing teacher preparation coursework
If It Walks Like a Duck: Self-Identification, Definition, and Experiences of Non-Traditional Doctoral Students in the Communication Discipline
No full textThis study aimed to understand experiences of nontraditional doctoral students pursuing their PhD in Communication. Although the term “nontraditional student” exists in the literature (Cox & Ebbers, 2010; Stone & O’Shea, 2019), there is little consensus about demographics of nontraditional doctoral students (NTDS), nor their experiences navigating these programs. Using qualitative, thematic analysis of survey responses (n = 52), this critical mixed-method study found three themes— age, experience, and education gap—as defining identity factors, barriers, and benefits. Participants described themselves as nontraditional due to different lived experiences from graduate peers, resulting in feelings of “Otherness” within their programs. These findings suggest that although some NTDS navigate graduate work with added benefits of social or financial support and life experience, they may also face a cumulative disadvantage within academic departments, networks, publishing, and other doctoral labor