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  1. The Person-Environment-Occupation Model: A transactive approach to occupational performance
    Mary Law, Barbara Cooper, Susan Strong, Debra Stewart, Patricia Rigby, Lori Letts in Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy (1996)
    Occupational therapy theory, practice and research has increasingly emphasized the transactional relationship between person, environment and occupation. Occupational performance results from the dynamic relationship between people, their…
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  2. Occupational therapy outcomes for clients with traumatic brain injury and stroke using the Canadian Occupational Performance Measure.
    Shawn Phipps, Pamela Richardson in The American journal of occupational therapy official publication of the American Occupational Therapy Association (2007)
    The purpose of this study was to determine whether 155 ethnically diverse clients with traumatic brain injury (TBI) and stroke (cerebrovascular accident; CVA) who received occupational therapy services perceived that they reached self-identified…
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  3. Effects of caregiver-child interactions on play occupations among young children institutionalized in Eastern Europe.
    Lisa A Daunhauer, Wendy J Coster, Linda Tickle-Degnen, Sharon A Cermak in The American journal of occupational therapy official publication of the American Occupational Therapy Association (2005)
    OBJECTIVE: We investigated whether children institutionalized in an orphanage would engage in more developmentally competent play with their caregivers as opposed to playing alone and whether specific qualities of caregiver-child interactions were…
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  4. Untangling occupation and activity.
    D Pierce in The American journal of occupational therapy official publication of the American Occupational Therapy Association (2001)
    Activity and occupation are two core concepts of occupational therapy that are in need of differentiation. Occupation is defined here as a person's personally constructed, one-time experience within a unique context. Activity is defined as a more…
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  5. The Canadian occupational performance measure: an outcome measure for occupational therapy.
    M Law, S Baptiste, M McColl, A Opzoomer, H Polatajko, N Pollock in Canadian journal of occupational therapy Revue canadienne dergotherapie (1990)
    The Canadian Association of Occupational Therapists, in collaboration with Health and Welfare Canada have developed and published a conceptual model for occupational therapy, the Occupational Performance model. This paper describes the development…
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  6. A randomized controlled pilot study of the effectiveness of occupational therapy for children with sensory modulation disorder.
    Lucy Jane Miller, Sarah A Schoen, Katherine James, Roseann C Schaaf in The American journal of occupational therapy official publication of the American Occupational Therapy Association (2007)
    OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this pilot study was to prepare for a randomized controlled study of the effectiveness of occupational therapy using a sensory integration approach (OT-SI) with children who have sensory processing disorders (SPD). METHOD:…
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  8. Measuring children's participation in recreation and leisure activities: construct validation of the CAPE and PAC.
    G A King, M Law, S King, P Hurley, S Hanna, M Kertoy, in Child care health and development (2007)
    There is a need for psychometrically sound measures of children's participation in recreation and leisure activities, for both clinical and research purposes. This paper provides information about the construct validity of the Children's Assessment…
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  9. The lived experience of recapturing self-care.
    Susanne Guidetti, Eric Asaba, Kerstin Tham in The American journal of occupational therapy official publication of the American Occupational Therapy Association (2007)
    This study sought to identify the characteristics of the lived experience of recapturing self-care after a stroke or a spinal cord injury (SCI). Five people who had had a stroke and six with SCI who were in the midst of recapturing self-care (1-3…
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  10. Areas of consensus and controversy about goal setting in rehabilitation: a conference report.
    E Diane Playford, Richard Siegert, William Levack, Jennifer Freeman in Clinical Rehabilitation (2009)
    OBJECTIVE: To consider clinical issues surrounding goal setting in neurological rehabilitation,and to identify priorities for future research. PARTICIPANTS: Twenty-four rehabilitation professionals were invited to attend because they had taught or…
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  12. How does sensory processing dysfunction affect play?
    Anita C Bundy, Sue Shia, Long Qi, Lucy Jane Miller in The American journal of occupational therapy official publication of the American Occupational Therapy Association (2001)
    OBJECTIVE: This study investigated sensory processing dysfunction (SPD) and playfulness and the effect of intervention on playfulness. METHOD: Twenty children with SPD and 20 children who were typically developing took the Short Sensory Profile…
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  13. Occupational therapy for patients with problems in personal activities of daily living after stroke: systematic review of randomised trials
    Lynn Legg, Avril Drummond, Jo Leonardi-Bee, J R F Gladman, Susan Corr, Mireille Donkervoort, et al. in BMJ British Medical Journal (2007)
    Objective To determine whether occupational therapy focused specifically on personal activities of daily living improves recovery for patients after stroke. Design Systematic review and meta-analysis. Data sources The Cochrane stroke group trials…
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  15. An occupation-centered discussion of development and implications for practice.
    Ruth Humphry, Linn Wakeford in The American journal of occupational therapy official publication of the American Occupational Therapy Association (2006)
    Children's learning to do everyday activities seems so obvious that the mechanisms bringing about the development of occupations remain essentially unstudied. Therefore, occupational therapy uses developmental models from other disciplines as…
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  16. The Dynamic Occupational Therapy Cognitive Assessment for Children (DOTCA-Ch): a new instrument for assessing learning potential.
    Noomi Katz, Sarina Golstand, Ruthie Traub Bar-Ilan, Shula Parush in The American journal of occupational therapy official publication of the American Occupational Therapy Association (2007)
    OBJECTIVE: To describe the development and psychometric properties of the Dynamic Occupational Therapy Cognitive Assessment for Children (DOTCA-Ch), a dynamic criterion-referenced assessment of cognitive abilities and learning potential for children…
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  19. 'There's a real plan here, and I am responsible for that plan': participant experiences with a novel cognitive-based treatment approach for adults living with chronic stroke.
    Sara E McEwen, Helene J Polatajko, Jane A Davis, Maria Huijbregts, Jennifer D Ryan in Disability and rehabilitation (2010)
    PURPOSE: This study was part of a larger mixed methods project aimed at adapting the Cognitive Orientation to daily Occupational Performance (CO-OP) treatment approach, originally designed for children with performance problems, for use with adults…
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