Susan Bazyk

Susan Bazyk is professor emerita of the occupational therapy program at Cleveland State University, where she taught for 34 years. In addition to authoring the book Mental Health Promotion, Prevention, and Intervention With Children and Youth: A Guiding Framework for Occupational Therapy (2011), Dr. Bazyk has authored more than 40 journal articles and book chapters in leading OT textbooks. She is the founding director of Every Moment Counts, which was launched in 2012. This multipronged mental health promotion initiative focuses on helping all children and youth participate successfully throughout the day in academic and nonacademic settings. Her current efforts focus on building capacity of OT practitioners and interdisciplinary teams to do this work.