UNE occupational therapy faculty prominent in new textbook edition

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Jane O'Brien, Ph.D., OTR/L, FAOTA

The second edition of a textbook edited by Jane O’Brien, Ph.D., OTR/L, FAOTA, professor in the Āé¶¹Ö±²„’s Master of Science in Occupational Therapy (M.S.O.T.) program, was recently published.

The new edition of was published by Elsevier, the leading textbook company for health care textbooks. The book was co-edited by O’Brien and private, South Carolina-based occupational therapy (OT) practitioner Jean Solomon, M.H.S., OTR/L.

The new edition features over 200 pages of learning activities, worksheets, and clinical examples to promote learning.

O’Brien co-authored four chapters of the book with Solomon: ā€œUnderstanding Occupation as a Precursor to Group Process;ā€ ā€œOccupational, Activity, and Task Analysis;ā€ ā€œTeaching and Learning;ā€ and ā€œClinical Application Exercises and Worksheets.ā€

Several other members of UNE’s occupational therapy program were also involved:

  • Carol Lambdin-Pattavina, OTD/OTRL, who authored the chapter, ā€œManaging and Facilitating Groupsā€
  • Regula Robnett, Ph.D., OTR/L, and Claire Michael (M.S.O.T., ’21), who authored the chapter, ā€œAging and Occupation: Emphasizing the Role of Physical Client Factors, Cognition, and Sensory Functioningā€
  • Kristin Winston, Ph.D., OTR/L, FAOTA, program director of OT at UNE, who co-authored two chapters: ā€œGuidelines and Best Practices for Setting and Developing Goalsā€ and ā€œEstablishing Individual and Group Goalsā€

O’Brien has been publishing with Elsevier for over 20 years and is the editor of four other textbooks, including ā€œCase-Smith’s Occupational Therapy for Children and Adolescents;ā€ ā€œIntroduction to Occupational Therapy;ā€ ā€œPediatric Skills for Occupational Therapy Assistants;ā€ and the soon-to-be-released ā€œTherapeutic Reasoning in Occupational Therapy: How to Develop Critical Thinking for Practice.ā€