Melissa Park, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the School of Physical and Occupational Therapy, Faculty of Medicine at 海角社区, a core member of Participatory Research at 海角社区 and full member of Centre de recerche interdisciplinaire en r茅adaptation du Montr茅al m茅tropolitain. As an occupational therapist with a background in History of Art, Occupational Science, and Medical Anthropology, she has extensive clinical, research and pedagogical experience using the terms of humanities and rehabilitation to understand healing,聽transformative and relational processes at dyadic, systemic and sociocultural levels from first-person or experience-near perspectives using narrative-phenomenological and aesthetic conceptual frameworks. Her funded ethnographic and participatory research has focused on understanding and working with multiple stakeholders in mental health related issues, including persons with invisible disabilities, family members, health and social care professionals, policy makers and citizens on topics ranging from 鈥渉ealing鈥� encounters and policy implementation to issues of inclusion, equity and justice.
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Selected Publications
笔补谤办,听惭., & Zafran, H. (2018). View from the penthouse: Epistemological bumps and emergent metaphors.聽Qualitative Health Research, 28(3), 408-417.聽Article first published online:聽December 12, 2017.
Grond, F., Park, M., Tembeck, T. & Blain-Moraes, S. (2017, Aug). Interfacing biomusic & autism: Integrating ethical considerations into affective technology design, Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, San Antonio, TX, US.
Greco, V., Lambert, H., & Park, M. (2016). Being visible: PhotoVoice as assessment for children in a school-based psychiatric setting.聽Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy, DOI: 10.1080/11038128.2016.1234642
Greco, V., Lambert, H., & Park, M. (2016). Capturing the child鈥檚 perspective: A review of self-report measures used with children 32(3), 228-244.聽Occupational Therapy in Mental Health. 10.1080/0164212X.2016.1164104
Lee, K., Wittich, W., Kehayia, E., & Park, M. (2016). The use of movement-based interventions with children diagnosed with autism for psychosocial outcomes - A Scoping review.聽Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 24, 52-56.
Park, M., Lencucha, R., Mattingly, C., Zafran, H., & Kirmayer, L. J. (2015). A qualitative study on the ethics of transforming care: examining the development and implementation of Canada鈥檚 first mental health strategy.聽Implementation Science.
Park, M., Zafran, H., Stewart, J., Salsberg, J., Ells, C., Rouleau, S., Estein, O., Valente, T. (2014).聽Transforming mental health services: a participatory mixed methods study to promote and evaluate the implementation of recovery-oriented services.聽Implementation Science, 9(1), 119 [Impact Factor: 4.21].
Schwartz, R., Estein, O., Komaroff, J., Lamb, J., Myers, M., Stewart, J., Vacaflor, L.,聽Park, M.聽(2013). Mental health consumers and providers dialogue in an institutional setting: A participatory approach to promoting recovery-oriented care.聽Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, 36(2), 113-115.
聽Johansson, K., Rudman, D., Mondaca, M.,聽Park, M., Luborsky, M., Josephsson, S., & Asaba, E. (2013). Moving beyond 鈥楢ging In Place鈥� to understand migration and aging: Place making and the centrality of occupation.聽Journal of Occupational Science,聽20(2), 108-119.
Park, M.聽(2012). Pleasure, Throwing Breaches, and Embodied Metaphors: Tracing Transformation-in-Participation for a Child With Autism to Sensory Integration-Based Therapy Session.聽OTJR: Occupation, Participation and Health, 32 (1 Suppl), S34-S47.
Park, M.聽(2010). Beyond calculus: Apple-apple-apple-ike and other embodied pleasures for a child diagnosed with autism in a sensory integration based clinic, Special Topic: Autism and Neurodiversity.聽Disability Studies Quarterly, 30(1).聽
Johansson, K., Lilja, M.,聽Park, M.聽& Josephsson, S. (2010). Balancing the good: A critical discourse analysis of home modification services in Sweden.聽Sociology of Health & Illness,聽32(4): 563-582.
Park, M. (2008). Making scenes: Imaginative practices for a child with autism in an occupational therapy session.聽Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 22(3), 234鈥�256.聽