Background: Emerging literature suggests that boredom is a frequent problem experienced
by homeless persons that may influence their health and well-being. Purpose: The range …

Background: In this two-part paper, critical race theory is used as an analytic tool to examine
how anti-Blackness, anti-Indigenous colonial relations and Orientalism have and continue to …

Background: Occupational science and occupational therapy typically perceive occupations
as promoting health and well-being. However, this perspective overlooks the many …

Introduction Despite struggling to establish itself as an autonomous profession, occupational
therapy remains extensively regulated and controlled by discursive authorities inside and …

Abstract Background In the Global North, advances in occupational therapy benefitted
unduly from the oppression, disablement and suffering of thousands of people in the South …

Considering that sexuality and gender are both relevant to the study of occupations and the
practice of occupational therapy, this paper aims to investigate the importance of night-time …

Occupational science literature increasingly addresses occupations classified as illegal. We
examine legal sanctioning, globally and locally, of two occupations: i) search and rescue …

Importance: Transition and integration reentry services continue to grow in carceral settings;
however, related provision of occupational therapy is limited. Objective: To examine the …

Background. Given the sociopolitical roots of widening occupational, social, and health
inequities, it is imperative that occupational therapy move forward in mobilizing occupation …

Occupational Therapy Essentials for Clinical Competence; Third Edition Page 1 THE DARK
SIDE OF OCCUPATION Rebecca Twinley, PhD, MSc, PGCAP, BSc(Hons), FHEA, HCPC ACOTE …