Using Occupational Therapy Theory in Practice by Gail Boniface, Alison Seymour

By Gail Boniface, Alison Seymour

Competence in any career depends on an knowing of the idea that underlies it. This concise and useful textual content for college kids and practitioners bridges the space among occupational remedy idea and medical perform, delivering hugely sensible recommendation on utilizing conception in perform in a variety of settings. It considers the character perform and the necessity for a valid theoretical foundation from which to plot, enforce and justify interventions, and investigates the sensible use of occupational treatment idea and the problems such use increases in wellbeing and fitness and social care settings from a ecu perspective.

Every occupational treatment pupil world wide must find out about the underlying conception in their occupation and its software to perform. The e-book rather debates the character of the idea of occupational remedy through the creation of the concept that of versions of the career as an umbrella for perform, all of that's dropped at existence through case stories incorporating specialist suggestion, mirrored image routines and review and overview forms.

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R Environment (the physical environment (inorganic), the psychobiological (organic) environment and the societal-cultural environment): Reed and Sanderson (1999) see the environments as having two influences on the individual’s ability to perform occupations. One is positive, where the environment is one that facilitates and encourages the occupation, whilst the other is negative, where the environment is one that hinders and obstructs the occupation. One could, therefore, see the occupational therapist’s role as one of primarily promoting a facilitating environment for clients to carry out occupations within.

The model categorises and sub-divides occupations and the environment as well as the individual skills an individual needs to carry out occupations as follows: r Occupations (Self-maintenance, productivity and leisure): They describe individuals as categorising the same occupation in different ways and it being important to P1: KAE/UKS BLBK399-03 P2: KAE BLBK399-Boniface November 15, 2011 9:0 Trim: 234mm×156mm Defining occupational therapy theory 31 ascertain the individual’s opinion of the occupation’s categorisation.

In occupational and professional literature (Mosey 1981; Reed 1984; Hagedorn 2001; Tyrer and Steinberg 2005; Duncan 2006; Turpin and Iwama 2011), there are a large number of ways of interpreting these terms. So is it any wonder that, on occasions, we as individual professionals become confused about how to use the concepts championed by these terms in our practice? This section attempts to define these professional terms in a way that has proved useful in practice for occupational therapists and students with whom I have worked.

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