Background <p>Trauma is a growing topic of interest in occupational therapy. Situating its available occupation-based evidence will allow to use it in practice, research, policy, and education.</p> Aims/Objectives <p>To explore occupation-based research on trauma, providing contextual and content information.</p> Material and methods <p>A scoping review was conducted, scanning peer-reviewed articles in English, Spanish, and French from Web of Science, Scopus, Psycinfo, SciELO, Dialnet, and two non-indexed occupational therapy journals. A quantitative descriptive analysis of context and a thematic qualitative analysis of content were undertaken.</p> Results <p>34 articles were selected. The context analysis is summarised as ‘27 years generating knowledge in myriad ways with an Anglo-saxon predominance’, while the content analysis identified three themes, which were grouped under the overarching theme of ‘Occupational-based research on trauma as a colour palette’.</p> Conclusions <p>Occupation-based research on trauma is expanding, with significant efforts to inform and ground theoretical understandings of trauma from an occupational perspective.</p> Significance <p>The insights from this review support the adoption of a critical occupational perspective on trauma in practice and future knowledge development.</p>