Occupational therapy (OT) practitioners often lack the fundamental skills to conduct or effectively use research, illustrating a disturbing gap between the advancement of theoretical concepts and the extent to which concepts are actually applied. The Scholarship of Practice: Academic-Practice Collaborations for Promoting Occupational Therapy closes this gap by presenting a conceptual framework that integrates theory and research with clinical practice. Leaders in the field provide insightful, thought-provoking ideas and strategies to promote research and facilitate effective new concepts and theories to hands-on practitioners. This cutting-edge compilation is extensively referenced and filled with useful diagrams and tables.

Patricia Crist, Gary Kielhofner

• Editors' Overview
  
• A Scholarship of Practice: Creating Discourse Between Theory, Research and Practice (Gary Kielhofner)
  
• ACADEMIC-PRACTICE PARTNERSHIP MODELS AND OUTCOMES
  
• Scholarship of Practice in the United Kingdom: An Occupational Therapy Service Case Study (Kirsty Forsyth, Edward A. S. Duncan, and Lynn Summerfield Mann)
  
• Completing the Cycle of Scholarship of Practice: A Model for Dissemination and Utilization of Evidence-Based Interventions (Elizabeth Walker Peterson, Elaine McMahon, Marianne Farkas, and Jonathan Howland)
  
• A Model of University-Community Partnerships for Occupational Therapy Scholarship and Practice (Yolanda Suarez-Balcazar, Joy Hammel, Christine Helfrich, Jennifer Thomas, Tom Wilson, and Daphyne Head-Ball)
  
• The Practice-Scholar Program: An Academic-Practice Partnership to Promote the Scholarship of Best Practice (Patricia Crist, Jaime Phillip Muñoz, Anne Marie Witchger Hansen, Jeryl Benson, and Ingrid Provident)
  
• ACADEMIC APPROACHES TO THE SCHOLARSHIP OF PRACTICE
  
• Academic-Clinician Partnerships: A Model for Outcomes Research (Karen A. Stern)
  
• Synthesizing Research, Education, and Practice According to the Scholarship of Practice Model: Two Faculty Examples (Renee R. Taylor, Gail Fisher, and Gary Kielhofner)
  
• A Collaborative Scholarly Project: Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy (Jan Stube)
  
• New Doors: A Community Program Development Model (Kathleen Swenson Miller and Caryn Johnson)
  
• PARTICIPATORY ACTION AND OTHER RESEARCH METHODS APPLIED TO PRACTICE
  
• A Participatory Action Research Approach for Identifying Health Service Needs of Hispanic Immigrants: Implications for Occupational Therapy (Yolanda Suarez-Balcazar, Louise I. Martinez, and Clemencia Casas-Byots)
  
• Brief or New: Interagency Collaboration to Support Adults with Developmental Disabilities in College Campus Living (John F. Rose, Donna M. Heine, and Cristine M. Gray)
  
• Therapists' and Clients' Perceptions of the Occupational Performance History Interview (Ashwini Apte, Gary Kielhofner, Amy Paul-Ward, and Brent Braveman)
  
• Education and Practice Collaborations: A Pilot Study Between a University Faculty and County Jail Practitioners (Patricia Crist, Andrea Fairman, Jaime Phillip Muñoz, Anne Marie Witchger Hansen, John Sciulli, and Mila Eggers)
  
• DEVELOPMENT OF EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE SKILLS IN PRACTITIONERS
  
• Achieving Evidence-Based Practice: A Process of Continuing Education Through Practitioner-Academic Partnership (Kirsty Forsyth, Jane Melton, and Lynn Summerfield Mann)
  
• Index
  
• Reference Notes Included