Occupational therapy in the primary health care clinic: Experiences of two clinicians.

Abstract

This article provides personal experiences of two clinicians on the topic of occupational therapy in the primary health care clinic. Lydia Royeen is a full time clinician in acute care and psychiatry and Jeanne Eichler is Assistant Professor and founder of the OTonCampus program at Saint Louis University. (PsycINFO Database Record

Mapping Occupational Therapy Practice with Postsecondary Students: A Scoping Review

“…Of the final 25 articles, two of them were qualitative designs (Berg, Jirikowic, Haerling, & MacDonald, 2017;McCausland, Bazyk, & Kerns, 2012). Ten articles of the final 25 were primarily descriptive in nature (Best, Still, & Cameron, 2008;Burnett-Beaulieu, 1984;Burnett & Yerxa, 1980;Burson, 2003;Eichler, Hoevet, & Royeen, 2015;Eichler & Royeen, 2016;Jacobs, Selby, & Madsen, 1996;Nolan & MacCobb, 2006;Smallfield, Benda, & Siefkes, 2011), while 11 articles were intervention studies (Gutman, Kerner, Zombek, Dulek, & Ramsey, 2009;Keptner et al, 2016;Keptner, 2017;Lewis & Nolan, 2013;Malcolm & Roll, 2019;Quinn, Gleeson, & Nolan, 2014;Schindler, 2014;Schindler, 2018;Schindler, Cajiga, Aaronson, & Salas, 2015;Schindler & Sauerwald, 2013).…”

“…While supported education was the primary overarching model found in the literature, other service designs were found. Both direct and indirect services through Offices of Disability Services (Lewis & Nolan, 2013), assistive technology services (Malcolm & Roll, 2019), and in a student health clinic (Eichler et al, 2015;Eichler & Royeen, 2016) were described. Alternative forms and frequencies of services were also described, including a short-term group intervention (Keptner, 2017;Keptner et al, 2016), a first-year experience course (Smallfield et al, 2011), and "as needed" occupational therapy services in a multidisciplinary dropin center (Jacobs et al, 1996).…”

“…One article discussed an occupational therapist's perspective developing a program for students in a PSE setting (Burson, 2003) and one article presented outcomes for student users and for occupational therapy students and faculty involved in such a program (Schindler, 2014). A clear description of specific programs that could inform other practice was provided in many articles (Burnett-Beaulieu, 1984;Eichler & Royeen, 2016;Keptner et al, 2016;Nolan & MacCobb, 2006;Schindler, 2018;Smallfield et al, 2011).…”

“…Although the purpose of the scoping review was a mapping exercise and not a judgment of rigor of included articles, there were a variety of limitations noted. Most of the articles were descriptive in nature without a strong focus on outcomes data from intervention (Best et al, 2008;Burnett-Beaulieu, 1984;Burnett & Yerxa, 1980;Burson, 2003;Eichler et al, 2015;Eichler & Royeen, 2016;Nolan & MacCobb, 2006;Smallfield et al, 2011). Other articles were limited by a small sample (Berg et al, 2017;Gutman et al, 2009;Jacobs et al, 1996;Keptner et al, 2016;Keptner, 2017;Lewis & Nolan, 2013;McCausland et al, 2012;Quinn et al, 2013;Schindler et al, 2015).…”

“…For example, the University of Southern California provides occupational therapy services for students in their faculty health clinic that is based on principles of Lifestyle Redesign® (Jackson, Carlson, Mandel, Zemke, & Clark, 1998). In addition, OToncampus® was an occupational therapy service embedded in a student primary health clinic at the University of St. Louis in Missouri (Eichler & Royeen, 2016).…”