Occupation By Design: Building Therapeutic Power / Edition 1

by Doris E. Pierce PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA

Overview

This engaging, user-friendly text guides occupational practitioners and students toward creatively designing and implementing occupation-based interventions for people with disabilities. The book covers the three primary proficiencies: understanding occupation in context, developing design skills, and applying occupation in practice. This innovative approach focuses on the interactive process of designing client-centered interventions, building a bridge between occupational science, and its application in occupational therapy.

"After briefly looking over the book, it appears to be a great book for a basic OT theory course or intro course." — Claudia Miller, MHS, OTR/L, Cincinnati State College, Cincinnati, Ohio
"This is a good (very good!) text. It will help us introduce the philosophical and theoretical notions of occupation (as process and outcome) when students enter as freshmen and then continue to reinforce these concepts throughout the time they are in the OT program." — Jacquelyn Bolden, PhD, OTR/L, Florida A & M University,Tallahassee, Florida

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780803610484
Publisher:	F.A. Davis Company
Publication date:	02/25/2003
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	356
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.25(d)

About the Author

Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, Kentucky

Table of Contents

Section 1: Becoming a Designer of Therapeutically Powerful Occupations
1. Welcome to Occupation by Design
2. The Creative Process of Designing Occupations
Section 2: Designing for Appeal: Pleasure, Productivity, and Restoration in Occupations
3. The Notion of Balance
4. Productivity in Occupation
5. Pleasure in Occupations
6. Restoration in Occupations
7. Does the Intervention Appeal? Designing with Productivity, Pleasure, and Restoration
Section 3: Designing for Intactness: The Spatial, Temporal, and Sociocultural Dimensions
8. The Evolution of Today’s Occupational Patterns
9. The Spatial Dimension of Occupation
10. The Temporal Dimension of Occupation
11. The Sociocultural Dimension of Occupation
12. Intactness: Designing with Context
Section 4: Designing for Accuracy: Elements of the Occupational Design Process
13. A Study of Occupation-Based Practice
14. Therapist Design Skill
15. Collaborative Occupational Goal Generation
16. Precision Fit of Intervention to Goal
17. Accuracy: The Art of Great Therapy
Section 5: Conclusion
18. You Are What You Do
Appendices: Cases; Recommended Narratives of Disability; Recommended Narratives of Occupational Experience