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Occupational Therapy in Mental Health

For a Special Issue on

Psychosis and Occupation

Manuscript deadline
01 December 2023

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Special Issue Editor(s)

Deborah Pitts, University of Southern California
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Erin McIntyre, University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences
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Psychosis and Occupation

Background

Psychosis is a profound human experience that has significant implications for the experience of and engagement in occupations. The work of the earliest practitioners of what became known in the US as occupational therapy was focused on psychosis. Over the last three years members of AOTA’s Psychosis Community of Practice (CoP) have explored various perspectives on the lived experience of psychosis and understandings about its impact on occupation. In this work, CoP members have engaged in particular with perspectives challenging psychiatry’s framing of psychosis as solely or primarily a medical disorder and its implications for occupational therapy practice.

Special Issue Goals

The goal of this special issue is to share international occupational therapy and occupational science scholars’ perspectives on psychosis and occupation that contribute to the broader critique of psychosis as solely or primarily a medical disorder. We are interested in contributions that explore psychosis as a human experience and the implications for taking up such a stance in occupational therapy.

Special Issue Editors

Deborah Pitts, University of Southern California

Erin McIntyre, University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

Carol Lambdin-Pattavina, University of New England

Elizabeth Griffin Lanigan, University of New Hampshire

Twylla Kirchen, Rocky Mountain College

Christine Linkie, University at Buffalo

Elise Blanton-Hubbard, Berkeley, California

Submission Instructions

Select "special issue title" when submitting your paper to Scholar One.

Non-Research, Research and/or Opinion articles will be accepted.

Submissions should be approximately 12-18 double-spaced manuscript pages.

Expected publication date March 2024.

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