Synopses & Reviews
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
Synopsis
- Interactive approach allows readers to use their own personal occupational experience as a basis for understanding the use of occupation as a therapy
- Defines the seven phases of the design process: motivation, investigation, definition, ideation, idea selection, implementation, and evaluation
- Provides opportunities for students to practice these seven steps through "Power Builder" exercises that enhance their creative thinking and problem-solving skills, thus strengthening their ability to provide therapeutically and create significant interventions
- Fully explores the productive, pleasurable, and restorative dimensions of the occupational experience
- Examines how to design intact interventions -- the concept of working in the natural settings of clients -- by understanding the temporal, spatial, and sociocultural context of the occupational experience
- Emphasizes the design of highly accurate interventions for therapists to implement precise services with goals that are collaborative and evidence based relative to the client's personal skills, knowledge, and experiences
- The summary chapter, "You Are What You Do," challenges readers to think about what kind of occupational therapist they want to be