Dr Farzaneh Yazdani

• Therapeutic use of self
• Occupational therapy across the life span
• Occupation disruption
• Health promotion
• Transformative Occupational Therapy
• Advancing Occupational Therapy Practice 
• Dissertation 

• Theories and models that are used or have been developed within OT including: cognitive behavioural, client centred, MOHO, CMOP, IRM
• Occupational therapy working with children, young people and their families (use of CO-OP, Play, therapists playfulness, group, family oriented app in children's settings)
• Cognitive approaches skill development and motor function 
• Therapeutic use of self; skills training for individual and group work; applying CBT and MOHO
• Advance theraputic reasoning, therapeutic relationship reasoning

• MSc OT dissertation 
• PhD thesis 

Farzaneh Yazdani's current research is in line with the Model of Occupational Wholeness, a model she developed based on needs theories and occupational science theories in combination with research findings in this area.

The 'model of occupational wholeness’ (MOW) or the ‘3 Bs of doing’ has been developed based on the needs theories and occupational science theories in combination with research findings in this area. The MOW explains how doing as an intermediate need motivates human beings to spend time and energy in order to meet their needs for being, becoming and belonging.

The MOW helps to conceptualise why human beings are motivated to do things that can help them survive, be part of their world and evolve towards what they value. The MOW explains how obstacles in doing what can fulfill a person’s valued needs can cause dissatisfaction with occupational life. The importance is not only meeting the needs but also the needs as they are valued by the person.

In light of the environmental and personal barriers or enablers, opportunities for doing, self and environmental awareness can help people to have a realistic understanding of who they are and what their environment is. The model aims to provide a reflective tool to help people to enhance their understanding of themselves and their own world. The strategies that would help improve the match between who people are and who they want to be within a realistic view of themselves and their world could be borrowed from several compatible theories and frames of reference. The aim of this ongoing study, therefore, is testing these theoretical views in different contexts and with different populations.

The current areas of focus in her research are as follows:

1. Exploring the construct of ‘Belonging’ from perspectives of different populations; people with ME, refugees, asylum seekers and vulnerable migrants
2. Exploring the experience of Being, Belonging, Becoming and overall Occupational Wholeness among Health Care Professionals and students, people in a caring responsibilities and general public
3. Choice and meaning making for refugees asylum seekers and vulnerable migrant (RAVM) women in the context of their past and current sense of Belonging.

Research grants and awards

• ME research UK for research project: Investigating sensory processing and cognitive function in people with ME and its impact on their day to day living
• Elizabeth Casson Trust Travel grant
• MOHO clearning House, UIC visiting scholarship
• Nabil Barakat award for distinguished PhD thesis 
• McGill University, Faculty of Rehabilitation travel grant 

• WFOT
• RCOT

• Family routines of adolescents with an Autism Spectrum Disorder: a literature review Jun 2016

• COT 2016 Roseanna Tuohy, Farzaneh Yazdani

• OCCUPATIONAL BALANCE: PERSPECTIVES OF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS NORTH WEST LONDON  Jun 2016   COTEC-ENOTE 2016  Farzaneh YazdaniNastaran YazdaniLaya NobakhtAlia Harb

• PSYCHOMETRIC PROPERTIES OF THE OCCUPATIONALTHERAPY PSYCHOSOCIAL ASSESSMENT OF LEARNING (OTPAL) IN STUDENTS AGE 6-9 IN IRAN Jun 2016 COTEC-ENOTE 2016 Sima Khadivjam. Ali AsgariFarzaneh Yazdani

• EXPLORING THE FACTORS CONTRIBUTING ACTIVITY AND PARTICIPATION PATTERN OF CHILDREN WITH CEREBRAL PALSY: A CRITICAL REVIEW Jun 2016 COTEC-ENOTE 2016 Fawaz AlrasheediFarzaneh Yazdani

• PERCIEVED POTENTIAL FOR A ROLE FOR OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY IN GENERAL PRACTICE IN ENGLAND OR EQUIVALENT IN OTHER COUNTRIES' Jun 2016 COTEC-ENOTE 2016 Morag Nicolle, Farzaneh Yazdani

• STROKE PATIENTS EXPERIENCES OF WEEKEND DAYS SPENT ON A STROKE UNIT: A DESCRIPTIVE PHENOMENOLOGICAL ANALYSIS Jun 2016 COTEC-ENOTE 2016 Rachel HaydenFarzaneh Yazdani

• Occupational therapists’ perception of occupational balance and experience of its application in practice Jun 2016 COTE 2016 Farzaneh Yazdani

• Shift towards spiral curriculum: integration of the Model of Human Occupation across the Occupational Therapy UG course Oct 2015 The 4th International Institute on the Model of Human Occupation (MOHO) Farzaneh Yazdani

• History of the Model of Human Occupation in Iran and its expansion to the Middle East Oct 2015 the 4th International Institute on the Model of Human Occupation (MOHO) Farzaneh Yazdani

• Occupational therapy from 'Birth till Today' Oct 2014 Iran National OT Conference Farzaneh Yazdani

• Functional Gains and Social Reintegration in Community Stroke Rehabilitation May 2014 XXIII European Stroke Conference 6 – 9 May 2014  Nur Shafawati Kamsani  Farzaneh Yazdani

• Global, International and Local factors in establishing and developing a profession Jun 2013 Therapy and Empowerment – Coercion and Punishment Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Labour and Occupational Therapy International Research Symposium, 26–27 June 2013 Farzaneh Yazdani

• A comparison of children's and mothers' perception of children's occupational adaptation Oct 2012 Third international institute on the model of human occupation Laya NobakhtFarzaneh Yazdani

• Developing and using the ‘professional self’ in multi-cultural health-care contexts May 2012 COTEC, Occupational Diversity 2012 Farzaneh Yazdani

• MOHO in Iran: The concept of occupation in Persian culture May 2012 COTEC, Occupational Diversity 2012 Farzaneh Yazdani

• Iran Medical University PhD thesis 

Other experience

• Occupational therapy lecturer and practitioner (1994-2000) Iran University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences 
• Establisher, assistant professor and head of department of the OT department at the University of Jordan (2000-2008)