Issues

Key outcomes for 2024 showcase the journal’s breadth and depth, with more than 139 articles published, as well as maintaining its top-ranked status among all rehabilitation journals, buoyed by an increase in its 5-yr impact factor.

In her Presidential Address at the AOTA INSPIRE 2024 Annual Conference & Expo in Orlando, Florida, AOTA President Alyson Stover highlights some of the unique ways occupational therapists and occupational therapy assistants are practicing today.

In this Eleanor Clarke Slagle Lecture, Dr. Anita Bundy discusses how supporting clients and their families to live ordinary lives lies at the heart of occupational therapy.

This rapid review of the current literature provides practitioners with evidence on supports for school children with sensory processing challenges.

This study describes the current practice trends in work and industry occupational therapy practice, identifies challenges related to resources and training in this practice area, and provides insights into opportunities for future development.

This is the first study to establish a connection between attachment insecurity in adults and lower levels of engagement in meaningful activities during adulthood.

This study highlights factors that affect the well-being of ethnic Chinese mothers who have children with disabilities and provides cultural insights for occupational therapists who work with Chinese families.

This study examined water competency, including swim safety skills, among children on the autism spectrum.

This review evaluated evidence addressing the ability of youth with persistent postconcussion symptoms (PPCS) to complete everyday activities.

This study identifies the factors that predict the sanctioning outcomes of occupational therapy practitioners.

The Hand Accumulation aNd Dexterity FUnctional Limits–Shriners (HANDFULS) offers a new, clinically feasible outcome tool for measuring in-hand manipulation.

The study findings suggest that the Activity Measure for Post-Acute Care Applied Cognitive Inpatient Short Form “6-Clicks” can reliably be used to identify impairments, optimize patients’ function, and facilitate safe discharge planning in the acute care setting.

This review found that scientific literature on the Cognitive Orientation to daily Occupational Performance (CO-OP) has significantly increased to include a wider range of clients, including people with developmental coordination disorder (DCD), ADHD, and cerebral palsy.

This study provides important insights into early interventions by occupational therapists and the impact on children with developmental delay and parent-child interactions.

The authors sought to determine whether and how occupational therapy practice is being affected by the 2022 overturning of Roe v. Wade and subsequent abortion-related restrictions as well as what resources practitioners might need to address clients’ needs.

The Bimanual Arm Trainer (BAT) is a novel device that can be used in occupational therapy to improve arm function after a stroke.

The Adult Executive Functioning Inventory (ADEXI) offers occupational therapy practitioners serving Hebrew-speaking populations a validated tool for assessing executive functions.

This study found that using information and communications technology has the potential to enhance opportunities for older adults’ social interaction, thereby improving the quality and quantity of social participation.

The authors investigated whether difficulties in self-regulation magnify the negative real-time associations between depressive symptoms and participation in daily activities in people poststroke.

The authors outline eight action steps that can prepare educators for the impending and necessary shifts in occupational therapy education. Guided by a growth mindset approach, these steps emphasize educators’ ability to adapt, modify, or create new educational methods and strategies when navigating change at the national or local level.

In this The Issue Is column, the authors identify ways to incorporate sleep health into the education and training of occupational therapy practitioners.