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ArticleThe American journal of occupational therapy : official publication of the American Occupational Therapy Association

A Need to Activate Lasting Engagement.

Rachelle Brick, Kathleen Doyle Lyons, Juleen Rodakowski, Elizabeth Skidmore

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Article in The American journal of occupational therapy : official publication of the American Occupational Therapy Association. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Occupational Therapists' Psychotherapy Competence: A Scoping Review of Secondary Data.Canadian journal of occupational therapy. Revue canadienne d'ergotherapie · 2025
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  3. The Roles of Busyness and Daily Routine in Medication Management Behaviors Among Older Adults.Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Rachelle BrickRachelle Brick, MSOT, OTR/L, is PhD Candidate, Department of Occupational Therapy, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; rsb50@pitt.edu.
Kathleen Doyle LyonsKathleen Doyle Lyons, ScD, OTR/L, is Scientist, Department of Psychiatry Research, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH.
Juleen RodakowskiJuleen Rodakowski, OTD, MS, OTR/L, is Assistant Professor, Department of Occupational Therapy, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.
Elizabeth SkidmoreElizabeth Skidmore, PhD, OTR/L, is Professor and Chair, Department of Occupational Therapy, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.

Funding

Translational Engineering in Cancer (TEC)P30CA023108 · NCI · DARTMOUTH COLLEGE · PI Fred W Kolling IV · 1985 to 2026
$91.3M
INFLUENCE OF STRATEGY TRAINING ON DISABILITY FOR OLDER ADULTS WITH MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENTR01AG056351 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI RODAKOWSKI, JULEEN · 2019 to 2023
$3.2M
Optimizing functional recovery of breast cancer survivorsR01CA225792 · NCI · MGH INSTITUTE OF HEALTH PROFESSIONS · PI LYONS, KATHLEEN DOYLE · 2019 to 2023
$3.0M
Closing Gap in Stroke Rehabilitation: Early Intervention for Cognitive DisabilityR01HD074693 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI SKIDMORE, ELIZABETH RENEE · 2013 to 2018
$2.6M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA225792NIA NIH HHS R01 AG056351NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD074693
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Occupational therapy practitioners provide interventions to promote activity engagement to multiple clinical populations. They help clients develop restorative, adaptive, and compensatory skills to improve their performance in daily activities. The issue addressed in this article is that current clinical frameworks lack translation of learned skills to consistent everyday performance. There is a gap between what clients can do and what clients actually do in everyday life. Behavioral activation provides an explicit, structured, and practical approach that can translate capacity into long-term engagement. This article presents behavioral activation as a transdiagnostic approach that targets populations experiencing chronic illness to bridge the gap between what the client can do in therapy and what the client could do in everyday life. WHAT THIS ARTICLE ADDS: People with chronic illness have difficulty translating the skills learned in traditional practice settings to everyday life. Behavioral activation offers occupational therapy practitioners a practical structure to promote the translation of learned skills.

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Occupational TherapyHumans

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PMID32804634
PMCPMC7430725

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