Mary Pauline Price

Mary Pauline Price, PhD, OTR/L

Board Certification

  • National Board for Certification in Occupational Therapy

I completed my MA (1994) and my Ph.D. (2003) at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. I began my appointment at the University of Utah in the Division of Occupational Therapy in 2004 and was awarded tenure and promotion to Associate Professor in the spring 2011. I practiced as an occupational therapist in adult rehabilitation and community re-entry following the completion of my B.S. in occupational therapy in 1980. I also held Program Director and Case management positions for several years.

Research Statement

I am interested in the intersections of research, theory, practice and education. Particularly, I am interested in understanding the process of occupational therapy when it is done well, and what the characteristics are that contribute to successful practice. This information will contribute to the refinement of theory and educational processes.

Selected Publications

Journal Article

  1. Heidimarie Lex (03/30/2022). Qualitative Study Identifies Life Shifts and Stress Coping Strategies in People with Multiple Sclerosis. Sci Rep.
  2. Backman Catherine (12/15/2021). Occupational science concepts essential to occupation-based practice: Development of expert consensus. . Am J Occup Ther, 75, 7506205121.049090.
  3. Watt H (05/20/2021). Integrated services or pull-out? Factors influencing school-based occupational therapy service delivery models. https://doi.org/10.1080/194112.
  4. Price P (10/28/2020). Toward robust assessments of student knowledge of occupation. .
  5. Hooper B (07/15/2020). Assignment Artifacts and What They Reveal About How Occupation Is Addressed in U.S. Occupational Therapy Curricula. Am J Occup Ther, 74, 7404205090p1.
  6. Krishnagiri S (09/2019). A national survey of learning activities and instructional strategies used to teach occupation: Implications for signature pedagogies. . Am J Occup Ther, 73.
  7. Taff SD (07/25/2018). Traversing hills and valleys: Exploring doing, being, becoming and belonging experiences in teaching and studying occupation. J Occup Sci.
  8. Hooper B (01/17/2018). Curriculum-Level Strategies that U.S. Occupational Therapy Programs use to Address Occupation: A Qualitative Study. . Am J Occup Ther, 72, 7201205040.
  9. Price P (05/23/2017). A way of seeing: A study of how occupation is portrayed to students when taught as a concept beyond its use in therapy. Am J Occup Ther, 71.
  10. Krishnagiri Sheama (01/31/2017). Explicit or hidden? Exploring how occupation is taught in occupational therapy curricula in the United States. . Am J Occup Ther, 71.
  11. Hooper B (10/16/2016).
  12. Hooper B (10/16/2016). Teaching knowledge generated through occupational science and teaching the science itself. J Occup Sci, 23.
  13. Melissa DEloia (09/09/2016).
  14. M POLLIE PRICE (07/17/2015).
  15. M POLLIE PRICE (01/15/2015).
  16. Harr Natalie (11/11/2011).
  17. Price P (09/26/2011). Leaning to promote occupational development through co-occupation. J Occup Sci, 16, 180-186.
  18. Price P (05/26/2011). Beyond my front door: The occupational and social participation of adults with spinal cord injury. . OTJR (Thorofare N J), 31, 81-88.
  19. Price P (12/19/2008). Extraordinarily ordinary moments in the neonatal intensive care unit. 29.
  20. Ward K (10/01/2007). Occupation-based practice and its relationship to social and occupational participation on adults with spinal cord injury. OTJR (Thorofare N J), 27, 149-156.
  21. Price-Lackey P (04/01/1996). Jenny's story: Reinventing oneself through occupation and narrative configuration. Am J Occup Ther, 50, 306-314.

Book Chapter

  1. Hooper B (09/16/2020). Principles of occupation-centered education. In SLACK Incorporated (pp. 117-130). SLACK Incorporated.
  2. Hooper B (09/09/2019). The Principles of Occupation-Centered Education. In Taff, S. D., Grajo, L. C., & Hooper, B. R. (Eds.). Perspectives on Occupational Therapy Education: Past, Present, and Future . In SLACK Incorporated (pp. 115-125). SLACK Incorporated.
  3. Price P (10/2013).

Abstract

  1. Maren Wright Voss (12/17/2021). Lost Work Opportunity Score Predicts Health in Retirement [Abstract]. Innov Aging, 5, 570.
  2. Price P (10/01/2019). Assessing student knowledge of occupation [Abstract]. Society for the Study of Occupation-USA.
  3. Christiansen C (10/01/2019). ESSENTIAL CONCEPTS IN OCCUPATIONAL SCIENCE : A CONSENSUS STUDY OF INTERNATIONAL EXPERTS [Abstract]. Society for the Study of Occupation:USA.
  4. Hooper B (10/19/2017). forum: How to balance teaching the conceptual and practice based products of occupational science with teaching the science itself. [Abstract]. Society for the Study of Occupation: USA, 31.
  5. Price P (10/12/2017). How student knowledge and application of occupations is assessed and measured: A national study [Abstract]. Society for the Study of Occupation: USA, 52.
  6. Kennedy B (09/23/2016). Forum: Disseminating occupational science research: An SSO: USA journal [Abstract]. Society for the Study of Occupation: USA, 90-91.
  7. Price P (10/07/2014). Phase II: A national study examining how occupation is addressed in occupational therapy curricula [Abstract]. Society for the Study of Occupation: USA, 41-42.
  8. Bernhard N (06/12/2014). [Abstract].
  9. Housman D (06/12/2014). [Abstract].
  10. Hooper B (10/16/2013). Preconference institute: Determining how the construct of occupation is addressed in curricula [Abstract]. Society for the Study of Occupation: USA, 80-81.
  11. McNulty T (10/16/2013). Standardized clients in case-based simulation: Student Perceptions and Relevance of an Occupation-based Curriculum [Abstract]. Society for the Study of Occupation-USA, 68-69.