Kathleen Matuska is the Master of Arts in Occupational Therapy
Program Director in the School of Health at St. Catherine
University. She has contributed to the life balance scholarly
discussion through published journal articles and presentations at
national and international conferences. Her research and scholarly
interests are primarily about understanding or clarifying the
construct of life balance and determining ways to measure life
balance for ongoing research and clinical application.
Dr. Charles Christiansen is Executive Director of The American
Occupational Therapy Foundation. Previously, he spent three decades
in academic roles at various universities, including the University
of Minnesota, The University of Texas Medical Branch, and The
University of British Columbia. Dr. Christiansen holds degrees in
educational administration, counseling psychology, and occupational
therapy. His scholarly and scientific interests inhabit the domain
of lifestyle and health, with a particular focus on individual
patterns of activity over the life course and how these influence
well-being. He is particularly interested in how the
interconnections of social, psychological, and neurophysiological
mechanism explain adaptation to stressful circumstances.
Dr. Helene J. Polatajko is an internationally acclaimed researcher,
educator, and clinician with extensive experience in assessment and
intervention research. Dr. Polatajko is extremely well-published
with over 200 publications, including books, chapters, and
peer-reviewed articles. She has given over 400 presentations in
over 20 countries. Dr. Polatajko is one of the authors of the
wellknown Canadian Occupational Performance Measure, now published
in over 20 languages. She is also a primary author of Enabling
Occupation II: Advancing an Occupational Therapy Vision for Health,
Well-Being, & Justice Through Occupation. She has received numerous
honors and awards, including the Muriel Driver Lectureship and
induction into the American Occupational Therapy Foundation Academy
of Research.
Jane A. Davis is a lecturer in the Department of Occupational
Science and Occupational Therapy at the University of Toronto.
Jane's current research is focused on examining the causal
mechanisms that have lead to the production and reproduction of the
current work-life balance discourse. She has presented her work at
numerous conferences, published in occupation-based journals, and
is a co-author of numerous book chapters related to enabling
occupation, occupational development, and methods of inquiry. She
serves as a board member for the Canadian Society of Occupational
Scientists and co-edits a column entitled "Sense of Doing," on
behalf of CSOS, in the Canadian Association of Occupational
Therapists OT Now journal.
"In the hands of eager young students or mature thinkers enlightened by life-experience, this textbook has the potential to spur the beginnings of a change in the way health care is viewed, studied, and administered." -- Louise Arpin, Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy
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