“…Within the broad terrain of numerous qualitative research approaches and specific methodologies, phenomenology has recently come to the foreground as an approach of choice, possibly because it allows for the illumination of meaning ascriptions in context and, as such, may be seen to exemplify occupational therapy's concern with environment and holism. Some examples of the use of phenomenology in occupational therapy include studies by Barnitt and Partridge (1997), Boutin-Lester and Gibson (2002), Chang and Hasselkus (1998), Dawkins and May (2002), Dyck and Forwell (1997), Elliott, Velde, and Wittmann (2002), Hasselkus (1993), Ivarsson, Soderback, and Ternestedt (2002), Meyers (1995), Rosa and Hasselkus (1996), Vergeer and MacRae (1993), Ward (2003), and Whiteford and Wilcock (2000). Other studies have used the empirical, phenomenological, psychological method.…”