Alice C. Jantzen

Jantzen was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, the daughter of Francis T. Jantzen and Alice Doyle Jantzen.{{Cite news |date=1983-10-25 |title=Alice Jantzen, 65; was a professor of health therapy |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-boston-globe-alice-jantzen-65-was/127938104/ |access-date=2023-07-09 |work=The Boston Globe |pages=76 |via=Newspapers.com}} She graduated from Wellesley College in 1939, with further professional training at the Boston School of Occupational Therapy. She earned a master's degree in education at the University of Pennsylvania. She earned a Ph.D. in counseling psychology from Boston College.{{Cite news |date=1976-09-24 |title=Alice Jantzen new office head at CSU |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/fort-collins-coloradoan-alice-jantzen-ne/127937457/ |access-date=2023-07-09 |work=Fort Collins Coloradoan |pages=26 |via=Newspapers.com}}{{Cite news |date=1983-10-26 |title=Alice C. Jantzen |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-baltimore-sun-alice-c-jantzen/127938375/ |access-date=2023-07-09 |work=The Baltimore Sun |pages=66 |via=Newspapers.com}}

Jantzen was in the United States Navy for twelve years, including three years on active duty, and worked at the United States Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C. during World War II.{{Cite journal |last=Kinzer |first=Gilbert D. |last2=Jantzen |first2=Alice C. |date=1944-03-20 |title=Velocity Loss of a 1/2 Inch Model Projectile When It Penetrates 1/32 Inch Cold Rolled Sheet Steel |url=https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/citations/AD1181699 |journal=Defense Technical Information Center}}

Jantzen was a professor at Western Michigan College from 1954 to 1956, and taught at the University of Pennsylvania. From 1958 to 1976, she taught at the University of Florida, where she was head of the occupational therapy department. "It's nice that you can go out an treat ten patients a day," she explained. "But if I teach ten students a day and then they go out and each teaches ten more, I accomplish much more--it's the geometrics of an educator's influence that interest me."{{Cite journal |last=Malone |first=Robert A. |date=1986-02-01 |title=Alice Catherine Jantzen 1918–1983 |url=https://doi.org/10.5014/ajot.40.2.123 |journal=The American Journal of Occupational Therapy |volume=40 |issue=2 |pages=123–124 |doi=10.5014/ajot.40.2.123 |issn=0272-9490|url-access=subscription }} From 1965 to 1966, she was the first president of the American Occupational Therapy Foundation (AOTF).{{Cite web |title=Full List of Past Board Chairs/Presidents |url=https://www.aotf.org/About-AOTF/News/full-list-of-past-board-chairspresidents |access-date=2023-07-09 |website=AOTF |language=en-US}}{{Cite news |date=1964-10-28 |title=Therapist at Florida U. Gets Association Post |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-tampa-tribune-therapist-at-florida-u/127938839/ |access-date=2023-07-09 |work=The Tampa Tribune |pages=17 |via=Newspapers.com}} She was also director of occupational therapy services at Shands Teaching Hospital in Gainesville, and president of the Florida Occupational Therapy Association. In 1971 she was named a distinguished faculty member of the University of Florida.{{Cite news |last=Van Bussum |first=Lyle |date=1971-10-23 |title=It's the Day of the Gator Through Gainesville |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-tampa-tribune-its-the-day-of-the-ga/127939150/ |access-date=2023-07-09 |work=The Tampa Tribune |pages=4 |via=Newspapers.com}} She was the Eleanor Clark Slagle Lecturer in 1973.

In 1976, she became head of the occupational therapy program at Colorado State University. She retired in 1978. In 1979, she received the OT Award of Merit from the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA).[https://www.aota.org/community/awards/ot-award-of-merit "OT Award of Merit"] AOTA.

• "Some Strengths of Occupational Therapy" (1963){{Cite journal |last=Jantzen |first=Alice C. |date=March 1963 |title=Some Strengths of Occupational Therapy |url=http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/000841746303000103 |journal=Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy |language=en |volume=30 |issue=1 |pages=21–25 |doi=10.1177/000841746303000103 |issn=0008-4174 |s2cid=33721989|url-access=subscription }}
• "A Prediction of Clinical Performance" (1965, with Harry E. Anderson)Anderson, H. E., & Jantzen, A. C. (1965). [https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1965-10254-001 A prediction of clinical performance]. American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 19(2), 76–78.
• "The effects of response sets in questionnaire studies" (1965, with H. E. Anderson, M. J. Shelton, and G. H. Dunteman){{Cite journal |last=Anderson |first=H. E. |last2=Jantzen |first2=A. C. |last3=Shelton |first3=M. J. |last4=Dunteman |first4=G. H. |date=1965 |title=The effects of response sets in questionnaire studies |url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/5853796 |journal=The American Journal of Occupational Therapy |volume=19 |issue=6 |pages=348–350 |issn=0272-9490 |pmid=5853796}}
• "Relative effectiveness of personality achievement and interest measures in the prediction of a performance criterion" (1969, with J. P. Bailey and G. H. Dunteman){{Cite journal |last=Bailey |first=J. P. |last2=Jantzen |first2=A. C. |last3=Dunteman |first3=G. H. |date=1969 |title=Relative effectiveness of personality achievement and interest measures in the prediction of a performance criterion |url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/5782553 |journal=The American Journal of Occupational Therapy |volume=23 |issue=1 |pages=27–29 |issn=0272-9490 |pmid=5782553}}
• "Some characteristics of female occupational therapists, 1970" (1972)Jantzen, A. C. (1972). [https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1972-25058-001 Some characteristics of female occupational therapists, 1970: I. Descriptive study]. American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 26(1), 19–26.
• Research: The practical approach for occupational therapy (1981){{Cite journal |last=Marion |first=Rodger |date=October 1981 |title=Book Review: Research: The Practical Approach for Occupational Therapy |url=http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/153944928100100209 |journal=The Occupational Therapy Journal of Research |language=en |volume=1 |issue=2 |pages=187–188 |doi=10.1177/153944928100100209 |issn=0276-1599 |s2cid=147281778|url-access=subscription }}

Jantzen died in 1983, at her home in Columbia, Maryland, at the age of 65. the American Occupational Therapy Foundation established an Alice C. Jantzen Fellowship Fund in 1986.{{Cite journal |date=1986-02-01 |title=The New Alice C. Jantzen Scholarship Fund |url=https://doi.org/10.5014/ajot.40.2.125 |journal=The American Journal of Occupational Therapy |volume=40 |issue=2 |pages=125 |doi=10.5014/ajot.40.2.125 |issn=0272-9490|url-access=subscription }} The University of Florida has an Alice C. Jantzen Fellowship Fund, established in 2008 in her memory.{{Cite web |title=Alice C. Jantzen Fellowship |url=https://www.uff.ufl.edu/giving-opportunities/014913-alice-c-jantzen-fellowship/?appeal=GKGXP6 |access-date=2023-07-09 |website=University of Florida Advancement |language=en-US}} In 2017, to mark its 100th anniversary, the American Occupational Therapy Association named "100 Influential People" in the field, and Jantzen was one of those named.{{Cite web |title=100 Influential People in Occupational Therapy: Alice C. Jantzen, PhD, OTR, FAOTA |url=http://www.otcentennial.org/the-100-people/jantzen |access-date=2023-07-09 |website=American Occupational Therapy Association}}

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