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Challenging Norms: The Impact of Transgender and Gender-Diverse Realities on Work and School Participation
CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: Individuals with high social affirmation were less likely to experience work or school mistreatment, and feeling comfortable with how others perceive their gender identity did not signify the need to be out. Plain-Language Summary: Occupational therapy practitioners can play a pivotal role when working with transgender individuals by assisting in creating new routines for self-presentation at work or school, navigating social environments, and providing guidance in self-advocacy skills. Individuals assigned male at birth may be in greater need because they report lower levels of social affirmatio...
Source: The American Journal of Occupational Therapy - March 27, 2024 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Tracy Becerra-Culqui Daniel Swiatek Bernadine Dizon Darios Getahun Michael Silverberg Qi Zhang Theresa Im Michael Goodman Source Type: research

Pediatric Occupational Therapists' Perspectives on Sleep: A Qualitative Descriptive Study
CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: The findings identify themes on the basis of which actionable steps toward promoting occupational therapists as sleep champions can be developed. Future implications include increasing sleep education opportunities, enhancing awareness of sleep health's impact on goal areas, and facilitating discussions about occupational therapy's role within the medical system and family system in supporting sleep. Plain-Language Summary: This qualitative study identifies what helps and hinders occupational therapists in addressing the sleep health concerns of their clients. We give occupational therapy clinici...
Source: The American Journal of Occupational Therapy - March 21, 2024 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Amy G Hartman Kaitlyn Caspero Stefanie C Bodison Adriane Soehner Murat Akcakaya Dilhari DeAlmeida Roxanna Bendixen Source Type: research

Going Beyond Management and Maintenance: Occupational Therapy's Role in Primary Prevention for Adults at Risk of Obesity-Is the Elephant in the Room Still the Biggest Challenge?
Am J Occup Ther. 2024 Mar 1;78(2):7802050020. doi: 10.5014/ajot.2024.050737.NO ABSTRACTPMID:38506822 | DOI:10.5014/ajot.2024.050737 (Source: The American Journal of Occupational Therapy)
Source: The American Journal of Occupational Therapy - March 20, 2024 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Jeanette Reffstrup Christensen Chloe Muntefering Beth Fields Source Type: research

"You're Someone Different Now": An Autoethnography on Identity and Occupational Identity Disruption After Traumatic Brain Injury
CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: Identity is created by occupational engagement. Occupational therapy practitioners can better serve their clients by exploring identity disruption and occupational identity disruption after TBI. Plain-Language Summary: This article describes the lived experience of identity disruption and occupational identity disruption with an emphasis on the transformative nature of occupation. Occupational therapists should work collaboratively with clients to identify key occupations that support their sense of identity.PMID:38502115 | DOI:10.5014/ajot.2024.050411 (Source: The American Journal of Occupational Therapy)
Source: The American Journal of Occupational Therapy - March 19, 2024 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Andi Brown Devin C Barth Amanda R Leslie Source Type: research

Purpose in Life as an Explicit Outcome of Occupational Therapy
Am J Occup Ther. 2024 May 1;78(3):7803347010. doi: 10.5014/ajot.2024.050428.ABSTRACTPurpose in life is increasingly understood to be important to health and well-being. Despite occupational therapy's long history of using occupations to advance health and the linkage between a subclass of occupations and purpose in life, the term is nearly absent from the American Occupational Therapy Association's documents and the profession's empirical literature. We propose that the profession explicitly name purpose in life as among our intervention outcomes and address disruptions of purpose in life in practice. This can be accomplis...
Source: The American Journal of Occupational Therapy - March 19, 2024 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Mary Vining Radomski Mattie Anheluk Ginger Carroll Joette Zola Source Type: research