Teaching mindfulness to occupational therapy students: pilot evaluation of an online curriculum.

Background: How mindfulness can be learned by occupational therapy students to manage their own self-care processes has not been fully examined as yet.

Purpose: This article describes an online curriculum approach for teaching a general introductory mindfulness course and examines outcomes with master's entry-level occupational therapy students.

Method: Fifteen students participated in an 8-week online mindfulness curriculum and completed a pre- and post-training survey.

Research lessons learned: occupational therapy with culturally diverse mothers of premature infants.

Background: Evaluation studies of the effectiveness of home-based occupational therapy are scarce but are needed to justify the impact of occupational therapy intervention. When the intervention is for persons from diverse cultural backgrounds, additional research challenges arise.

Purpose: To share lessons learned in conducting home-based occupational therapy research with Canadian, and immigrant South Asian and Chinese mothers of premature infants in a large Canadian city.

Critical review of the research literature of seating interventions: a focus on adults with mobility impairments.

An expanding area in rehabilitation practice is the prescription of seating interventions for clients with mobility impairments. The goal of this intervention is to enhance comfort and functional performance. The purpose of this paper is to review the body of knowledge from the research literature concerning the effectiveness or impact of seating interventions for adults who have mobility impairments.

Benefits of a virtual play rehabilitation environment for children with cerebral palsy on perceptions of self-efficacy: a pilot study.

This paper presents the results of a clinical trial of a virtual reality play-based intervention. The results of three single case studies are presented. The virtual reality intervention used the Mandala Gesture Xtreme technology.