Theories/FORs
Health Care Models
Key Terms
100

This model focuses on the flow of one’s life including obstacles and resources that are specific to the person.

KAWA

100


It uses scientific research within medicine and focuses on the diagnosis and disease. 

Medical Model

100

What is the term for a broken-down way to organize theory and knowledge in a field ofwork

Taxonomy

200

 This model focuses on the person’s ability to adapt to challenges in their occupational performance. Adaptations can be made in the person, their occupation, and their environment

Occupational Adaptation (OA)

200

broadened viewpoints of conditions to focus on psychological and social aspects of the patients along with biological aspects.

Biophysiosocial  model
200

This is a statement about how multiple ideas can be related to each other

Postulate

300

The targeted outcomes of this model are improvedoccupational participation and well-being. It also targets enhanced personal performance in their daily activities.

MOHO

300

Incorporates ICF (International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health) which considers aspects of human health and well-being while establishing a common language, comparisons between other countries, and providing a scientific basis

WHO Model
300

Fancy term for how people know what they know

Epistemology

400

 This model expands the PEO model in that it focuses on the person, their environment, and their occupation and includes the person's performance.

PEOP

400

Focuses on self-determination in mental health recovery because everyone’s path is different, and patients need to want to help themselves recover.

Recovery Model in Mental Health

400

an approach that works backward from the typical way to help break down barriers along the way

Top-down

500

The environmental settings and factors to consider include the community,and consumer-based and wellness services. This model emphasizes domain of practiceand uses a preventative, health-promotional, and rehabilitative approach for intervention

Ecology Of Human Performance

500

It prioritizes people being clients rather than being patients meaning that the people receiving treatment can make their own choices about what is meaningful to their recovery and have an active role in the process.

Client Centered 

500

What word describes a shared vision that includes assumptions and beliefs that serve as the core values of a profession

Paradigm