The Genesis of International Handbook of Occupational Therapy Interventions

Abstract

The International Handbook of Occupational Therapy Interventions (IHOTI) was designed through the results of extensive literature searches in 2007 (IHOTI, 1st edition) and 2013 (IHOTI, 2nd edition). The database searches were focused on occupational therapy with emphasis on evidence-based occupational therapy interventions. These searches also helped selecting the colleagues who are clinical experts and authors of chapters in Parts II–V. Occupational Therapy Intervention Framework (OTIF) emerged from the literature studies. A rough copy of OTIF was presented in IHOTI, 1st edition. In IHOTI, 2nd edition, OTIF has been reinforced with definitions and a validation study. It is suggested that OTIF should become a professional taxonomy of the occupational therapists’ doing.