Caregiver Coaching in Early Intervention: A Scoping Review.

Importance: Best practice guidelines and legal mandates have deemed parent engagement an essential component of early intervention (EI). Parent coaching is an intervention and a model of service delivery used in occupational therapy practice that is designed to integrate parents into the therapy session.

Objective: To examine the current definitions of coaching and the ways in which U.

Perceived Barriers, Challenges, Successes, and Rewards of Leadership Positions in Colleges of Health Professions: A Survey of Female Leaders.

Aims: This study explored the perceptions of female leaders in schools of health professions regarding the barriers, challenges, successes, and rewards of holding academic leadership positions.

Methods: The study utilized an exploratory survey research design with convenience sampling. The survey was electronically disseminated to academic representatives from 115 Association of Schools of Advancing Health Professions member institutions with subsequent distribution via institution representative.

Caseload and Workload: Current Trends in School-Based Practice Across the United States.

Importance: Practitioners working in school settings have a variety of job-related responsibilities in addition to direct service provision. Models of best practice indicate that a workload approach to service delivery allows practitioners to provide effective and productive interventions in the school setting; however, current information related to service delivery by school-based practitioners in the United States is lacking.

Objective: To explore current caseloads, service delivery models, implementation of workload models, knowledge of state and local policies, and job satisfaction of school-based occupational therapy practitioners and how they relate to best practice.

Perceived Barriers and Challenges of Leadership Positions in Schools and Colleges of Health Professions in Higher Education: A Survey of Faculty at ASAHP Institutions.

Aims: Faculty recruitment into leadership positions is increasingly more difficult. The purpose of this research study was to explore the perceived barriers and challenges to leadership positions in schools of allied health professions from a faculty perspective.

Methods: This study utilized an exploratory, survey design with convenience sampling.

Professional and organizational commitment in paediatric occupational therapists: the influence of practice setting.

The professional and organizational commitment of paediatric occupational therapists working in two distinct practice settings, schools and medically based settings, was investigated. A web-based survey program was used to administer a questionnaire to occupational therapists employed in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. The study employed social identity theory as a guiding perspective in understanding therapists' professional and organizational commitment.