About the Course

This course is developed as part of a PhD project that examines the feasibility and preliminary effectiveness of a curriculum-based short course to promote the use of evidence-based, relationship- and capacity-building approaches in Early Intervention (EI). This course is guided by:

• • The Intentional Relationship Model (IRM; Taylor, 2020) provides a theoretical framework for understanding and operationally defining specific components of the patient-provider relationship.

  • The Model of Human Occupation (MOHO; Taylor et al, 2023) provides a theoretical framework for understanding and operationally defining motivation for doing and participating in everyday activities. 

  • The social constructivist theory (Vygostky, 1978) defines the process of learning as a dynamic interaction between the learner and their social environment.

Evguenia served as a co-investigator on three separate research projects examining the role of the IRM in promoting client engagement in adult rehabilitation, child engagement in pediatric outpatient rehabilitation, family engagement in labor and delivery units, and the development of therapeutic use of self in entry-level occupational therapy students. Additionally, Evguenia has contributed to developing and validating the Clinical Assessment of Modes (CAM) and the Clinical Assessment of Sub-optimal Interaction (CASI). The CAM was developed to evaluate the provider’s therapeutic mode use according to the IRM. To capture a full spectrum of therapeutic and non-therapeutic approaches experienced by patients in rehabilitation, the CASI was developed for evaluating communication that could damage the patient-provider relationship.

Evguenia has had an opportunity to co-facilitate a semester-long graduate course titled “Development of Therapeutic Self” in the entry-level occupational therapy program at UIC in the Fall of 2016 - 2018. Evguenia continues to teach on the IRM as a guest lecturer and invited presenter.

Evguenia's current research areas are family- and client-centered care, promotion of occupational engagement and participation, pediatrics and early intervention, social and transformative learning in health care and professional education, Model of Human Occupation (MOHO), and the Intentional Relationship Model (IRM).

In addition, she has had an opportunity to lead various educational sessions and short courses on the IRM at state, national, and international conferences. Visit this link to find a collection of Evguenia's published works.

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Student Collaborators 

References

• Taylor, R. R. (2020). The intentional relationship: occupational therapy and use of self (2nd ed.). F.A. Davis. 

• Taylor, R. R. (2023). Kielhofner’s Model of Human Occupation: Theory and Application (6th ed.). Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.

• Vygotsky (1978). Mind in Society. London: Harvard University Press.