Areas I Teach
Caroline Harkins McCarty’s work focuses on supporting children and adults with disabilities in participating in their meaningful occupations, especially accessing their social worlds. Her scholarship interests include foster care and adoption, family routines, and occupational justice.
Caroline completed her clinical masters in Occupational Therapy, her PhD in Occupational Science, and Postdoctoral Fellowship in Translational Research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her clinical practice experience included full time work as a school-based practitioner, and clinic-based work with children with developmental disabilities. She especially loves working with clients in their everyday community contexts.
Dr. McCarty has taught several courses across the curriculum, including pediatric evaluation and treatment, occupational science, occupational justice, qualitative research, and psychosocial practice. In the summers she serves as a faculty mentor for OT students on their fieldwork rotation at Camp Kindred Matters, which reunites siblings who are separated in the foster care system.