University of Southern California

Redesigning Lives. The Future of Healthcare

Occupational Science Ph.D. Graduates

2008

Fogelberg, Donald J.
Title: A complex systems view of habit and its impact on pressure ulcer risk in adults with spinal cord injury

Mernar, Thomas J.
Title: Place integration of newly relocated nursing home residents: Understanding the links of occupation and environment to health

Breeden, Lori J.
Title: Transformative occupations: Life experiences of performers with disabilities in film and television

2007

Eakman, Aaron M.
Title: A reliability and validity study of the meaningful activity participation assessment

Stouffer, Susan S.
Title: Occupation in the lives of adults with schizophrenia: Creations of hope

Su, Yu-Ren
Title: Parenting in a foreign land: The lived experience of Taiwanese immigrants with disabled children in the United States

2006

Odawara, Etsuko
Title: Life crisis in old age: Occupation, culture and the problem of “Good Aging” in Japan

McLaughlin Gray, Julie Ann
Title: A longitudinal analysis of occupation in stroke recovery: A singe case history

Kondo, Tomoko
Title: Recovery from life crisis through occupations: Eight stories in the novel “The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle”: by Haruki Murakami

Kibele, Alice Anne
Title: At play with meaning: Toys and other favorite objects in the everyday lives of young children

2005

Chang, Ling- Hui
Title: Rehabilitative narratives of individuals with neurological illnesses and their caregivers in a rehabilitation unit in central Taiwan: An ethnographic study

Bilock, Christy
Title: Delving into the center: Women’s lived experiences of spirituality through occupation

Sriphetcharawut, Sarinya
Title: Mothering occupations: An ethnographic study of Thai women with physical disabilities in the north of Thailand

Forwell, Susan Jane
Title: The personal projects approach: A method to use with persons with multiple sclerosis

Hueker, Esther
Title: Something’s happening: Emergence of social worlds on the school playground

Asaba, Mats Eric Ken
Title: “I’m not much different”: Occupation,identity, and spinal cord injury in America

Park, Melissa Marjorie
Title: Narrative practices of intersubjectivity:  An ethnography of children with autism in a sensory integration based occupational therapy clinic

2004

McDannel, Renee Paula
Title: Classroom occupations from the perspectives of three high school students with attention deficit disorder

O’Brien, Valerie J.
Title: The relationship between family routines and perceived stress in mothers with children with and without a disability

Peralta, Maria Theresa S.
Title: “From Where Are You Back Home?” Ethnography of Filipina domestic workers spending Sundays at Statue Square

2003

Bagatell, Nancy
Title: Constructing identities in social worlds: Stories of four adults with autism

Freeman, Bonnie
Title: Parenting adolescents with the Internet in the household: A qualitative study

Huang, Yan-Hua
Title: Health-related quality of life, occupation and prosthesis use in elderly people with lower extremity amputation in Taiwan

Lee, I-Ching
Title: A comparison of play performance of boys with autism and that of boys without disabilities in Taiwan

Price, Pollie Pauline
Title: Occupation-centered practices: Providing opportunities for becoming and belonging

Qu, Wenchun
Title: Quality of daily occupational experience and its relationship with adolescent tobacco smoking

2002

Gordon, Don Michael
Title: Therapeutics and science in the history of occupational therapy

Su, Chia-Ting
Title: The relationships among five sensory systems in children with sensory integration problems as measured by the Evaluation of Sensory Processing (ESP)

2001

McDonald, Ann Elizabeth
Title: The after school occupations of homeless youth: Implications for occupational science, occupational therapy, and public policy

Spitzer, Susan Lanell
Title: No words necessry: An ethnography of daily activities with young children who don’t talk

2000

Kao, Chih-Chuan
Title: Motivational orientation, achievement, and school-related occupations in Taiwanese gifted children

1999

Fanchiang, Shan-Pin Cynthia
Title: Participation in occupation and quality of life in individuals with Parkinson’s disease

White Jr., John Anthony
Title: Occupation and adaptation: An ethnographic study of ten people with disabilities using Title I of the ADA to fight employment discrimination

Russel, Elizabeth
Title: Career change in mothers of children with disabilities

Farnworth, Louise
Title: The time use and subjective experience of occupations of young male and female legal offenders

1998

Blanche, Erna
Title: Play and process: The experience of play in the life of the adult

Florey, Linda Lou
Title: Summer camp as a transformative experience

Kennedy, Bonnie
Title: Feeling and doing: Health and mind-body-context interactions during daily occupations of women with HIV/AIDS

Pendleton, Heidi McHugh
Title: Establishment and sustainment of friendships of women with physical disability: the role of participation in occupation

1997

Knox, Susan Hirsch
Title: Play and play styles of preschool children

Meltzer, Phyllis
Title: The Self-Discovery Tapestry Instrument used by mid-life women who are changing occupations through higher education

1996

Larson, Elizabeth Ann
Title: Embracing paradox: The daily experience and subjective well-being of Mexican-origin mothers parenting children with disabilities

Pierce, Doris Emma
Title: Infant space, infant time: Development of infant interaction with the physical environment from one to 18 months

1995

Jackson, Jeanne Marie
Title: Lesbian identities, daily occupations, and health care experiences

Ludwig, Ferol Menks
Title: The use and meaning of routine in women over seventy years of age

Primeau, Loree Ann
Title: Orchestration of work and play within families

Segal, Ruth
Title: Family adaptation to a child with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

Wood, Wendy Hower
Title: Environmental influences upon the relationship of engagement in occupation to adaptation among captive chimpanzees

Wright, JoAnne
Title: Occupational restructuring by and selected psychological characteristics of older adults after the death of their spouse

1994

Krishnagiri, Sheama Seshagiri
Title: The occupation of mate selection

Lo, Jin-Ling Julia
Title: The relationship between affective experiences during daily occupations and subjective well-being measures