Mindfulness and therapeutic relationships: A phenomenological inquiry into paediatric occupational therapists' practices.

Background: A growing body of literature points to the potential of mindfulness to support therapeutic relationships, and the importance of the therapeutic relationship when working with children and youth, yet little attention has been paid to this topic in occupational therapy.

Aims/objectives: The aim of this study was to inquire into occupational therapists' experiences of mindfulness in the therapeutic relationship with children and youth.

Materials And Methods: Hermeneutic phenomenology was the methodological approach, with Heidegger's concepts of being-with and care as theoretical underpinnings of the study.

Mindfulness in paediatric occupational therapy practice: a phenomenological inquiry.

Purpose: While research into mindfulness practices is on the rise across populations, there is evidence to suggest that clinical practice has outpaced the literature with regard to mindfulness in pediatric rehabilitation. The aim of this study was to explore the perceptions of occupational therapists who opt to incorporate mindfulness into their clinical practices with children and youth.

Methods: Hermeneutic phenomenology was the methodology of the study.

Capturing the voices of mothers: Delivery and content efficacy of a community attachment parenting program.

This qualitative case study sought to examine the delivery and content efficacy of a community attachment parenting program developed and hosted by an attachment and trauma-informed organization that services infants and their pre- or postnatal mothers in Ontario, Canada. A focus group and participant reflective journals were employed to amplify the voices of mothers who engaged in the 8-week program. Five overarching themes surfaced in the data which include (1) infant/mother attachment, (2) program delivery validations and recommendations, (3) program content validations and recommendations, (4) facilitator delivery, content and relational competencies and (5) connections with others.

Mindfulness and human occupation: A scoping review.

Background: Mindfulness is an emergent construct with implications for our understanding of approaches to engagement in human occupation. Little is known about how mindfulness is being applied and what its possibilities are in the occupation-based disciplines.

Objective: The purpose of this scoping review was to summarize, describe, and identify gaps in the existing literature on mindfulness in relation to human occupation.

Ethical Tensions Related to Systemic Constraints: Occupational Alienation in Occupational Therapy Practice.

Ethical tensions arise daily in health care practice and are frequently related to health care system structures or policies. Collective case study methodology was adopted to examine ethical tensions reported by occupational therapists practicing in different settings in Southwestern Ontario, Canada. Inductive analysis involving multiple layers of coding was conducted.

Critical reflexivity in client-centred therapeutic relationships.

Aim/objectives: This paper explores how a particular form of reflection--critical reflexivity--can support clinicians in developing a more nuanced understanding of therapeutic relationships, and work to advance the goal of client-centred practice.

Methods: A critical autobiographical narrative was written, and critical reflexivity adopted, as methods to critically examine the therapeutic relationship.

Findings: Critically reflexive stories have the potential to advance client-centred therapeutic relationships by inspiring the (re-)consideration of practices, and by interrogating interpretive systems.