Research & Publications

Selected Major Scholarly Texts

Christiansen, C., & Haertl, K. (2023). Essential Concepts of Occupation for Occupational Therapy: A Guide to Practice. Routledge.

Christiansen, C. H., Baum, C. M., & Bass-Haugen, J. (Eds.). Occupational Therapy: Performance, Participation, and Well-Being. Multiple editions. Slack.

Featured Full Text Publications

AJOT Position Paper on Occupation. AJOT, 1995 (with Clark, Kielhofner and Rogers)

Occupational Science Concepts Essential to Occupation-Based Practice. AJOT, 2021. (with Backman, Hooper, Pierce & Price.)

Defining Lives: Occupation as Identity. Eleanor Clarke Slagle Lecture, AJOT, 1999.

A proposed model of lifestyle balance, Journal of Occupational Science, 2008, (with Matuska).

Personal projects: A useful approach to the study of occupation. AJOT, 1998 (with Little & Backman).

Forthcoming In Progress

Christiansen, C. H. Identity, Narrative, and Belonging Across Culture and Time: A Reconsideration of Occupation as the Architecture of Meaning. In preparation.

Christiansen, C. H., & colleagues. Contextual history chapter for the 15th edition of Willard & Spackman’s Occupational Therapy. Forthcoming.