Innovative occupational therapy service provision on college campuses: supporting student wellbeing and success

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dc.contributor.authorHunt, Eithneen
dc.contributor.authorLewis, Kieranen
dc.contributor.authorNolan, Clodaghen
dc.date.accessioned2025-09-12T11:13:08Z
dc.date.available2025-09-12T11:13:08Z
dc.date.issued2025-07-01
dc.description.abstractMany universities internationally are committed to widening participation and increasing access to higher education for all. Increasingly, higher education institutions (HEIs) are establishing occupational therapy services to address a range of student needs including those of students with physical and sensory disabilities, specific learning difficulties and mental health conditions, as well as neurodiverse students and students from marginalised communities (Eichler and Keptner, 2023). Occupational therapy practitioners working in higher education also play an important role in improving the learning experience, success and wellbeing of all students. Worryingly, the number of UK undergraduate students reporting mental health difficulties has tripled over the past 7 years requiring novel responses to complement and extend traditional supports already in place on many campuses (Sanders and Ellingwood, 2025). Occupational therapy practitioners are well placed to design and deliver interventions to better equip students to be well and succeed at university (Hunt, 2021). In June 2025, the International Health Promoting Campuses conference took place in Limerick, Ireland. We hosted a symposium at this international conference showcasing the role of occupational therapy in HEI in Ireland. In this editorial, we present one of the main international policy drivers for this work and share some of the ways that occupational therapy practitioners are enacting this policy relating to student mental health, creating significant value and benefit to HEIs and the students they serve.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionAccepted Versionen
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dc.identifier.articleid03080226251351488en
dc.identifier.citationHunt, E., Lewis, K. and Nolan, C. (2025) 'Innovative occupational therapy service provision on college campuses: supporting student wellbeing and success', British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 03080226251351488 (3pp). https://doi.org/10.1177/03080226251351488en
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/03080226251351488en
dc.identifier.endpage3en
dc.identifier.issn0308-0226en
dc.identifier.issn1477-6006en
dc.identifier.journaltitleBritish Journal of Occupational Therapyen
dc.identifier.startpage1en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/17863
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherSAGE Publishingen
dc.relation.ispartofBritish Journal of Occupational Therapyen
dc.rights© 2025, the Authors. Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications. This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of the following article: Hunt, E., Lewis, K. and Nolan, C. (2025) 'Innovative occupational therapy service provision on college campuses: supporting student wellbeing and success', British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 03080226251351488 (3pp). The final authenticated version is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1177/03080226251351488en
dc.subjectOccupational therapyen
dc.subjectStudent needsen
dc.subjectHigher educationen
dc.subject~Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy - Journal articles~en
dc.titleInnovative occupational therapy service provision on college campuses: supporting student wellbeing and successen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
dc.typejournal-articleen
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