Marilyn B. Cole MS, OTR/L, FAOTA, began her occupational therapy career in mental health, creating programmes for inpatient psychiatry at Eastern Pennsylvania Psychiatry Institute in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and Middlesex hospital in Middletown, CT and mental health day treatment at Lawrence and Memorial Hospitals in New London, CT. Throughout her part time and full-time teaching at Quinnipiac University beginning in 1982, she continued to practice and and also train at the West Haven VA Hospital and consulted at Fairfield Hills Hospital in Newtown, CT. Throughout her professional career, Marli has regularly presented at local, national, and international conferences (Melbourne, London, Montreal, Stockholm, Sydney) and has supervised student experiences in England, Costa Rica and Australia. She has completed research studies in sensory integration, mental health assessment, time management, therapeutic relationships, group size and cohesiveness, and with students, creative training videos for Donohue's Social Profile.

Karen C. Macdonald, PhD, OTR/L has specialised in geriatric occupational therapy 35 years. Her undergraduate degree in occupational therapy from Quinnipiac University. She received her masters degree in counselling the ageing from the University of Bridgeport. At New York university she earned a pH D in occupational therapy. Roles and adult day care and long term care as a condition included programme design and intervention for individuals and groups with acute and chronic conditions. Eventually specialising in dementia management, she was the coordinator of the special care unit at the Jewish Home for the elderly in Fairfield, CT. She currently teachers at Secret Heart University and Housatonic Community College.