Occupational Science
Occupations vary in their meaningfulness, depending on the person’s values, hopes, experiences, objectives, and life narratives.
What is meaning?
Lifestyle Redesign is relevant to both well individuals and those with chronic conditions or disabilities.
What is applicable to any individual who faces a lifestyle-related challenge to maintaining optimal well-being?
Established sequences of occupations or activities that provide a structure of daily life.
What are routines?
The process that addresses the typical demands of an activity.
What is Activity Analysis?
A process designed to facilitate self-directed behavior change.
What is Patient Empowerment Approach?
People are ______________, and occupation is a central aspect of the human experience.
What is Occupational Beings?
Clients are viewed as experts in their own lives who have an innate drive to develop and exercise personal capacities.
What is using therapist-client collaboration and individualization to best address the needs, strengths, and goals of each client?
The definition of performance patterns can be found in this document.
What is the Occupational Therapy Practice Framework?
Clinical reasoning that involves story telling and story making.
What is Narrative Reasoning?
A model of occupation performance that considers the dynamic relationships between the person and the occupation, occupation and the environment, and the person and the environment.
What is Person Environment Occupation?
A small shift can cause radiating and unpredictable changes in a system.
What is Dynamic Systems Theory?
The core of Lifestyle Redesign intervention are tools, techniques, and tenets of the profession of OT.
What is interventions administered by licensed OT practitioners with advanced training in Lifestyle Redesign?
Specific, automatic adaptive, or maladaptive behaviors.
What are habits?
The process of identifying a challenge, determining its causes, evaluating alternative solutions, and then implementing those solutions.
What is Problem Solving?
An individual's belief in their ability to produce or perform a specific outcome.
What is Self-Efficacy?
A generative and unfolding quality to occupations.
What is Occupation as an Emergent Phenomenon of Transformation?
A broad definition of health that includes the person's physical, mental, emotional, cognitive, social, and spiritual well-being.
What is concerned with a broad range of health-relevant outcomes?
Sets of behaviors expected by society and shaped by culture and context.
What are roles?
A technique where a client is guided to understand the impact of occupations on various facets of health, quality of life, and life satisfaction.
What is Occupational Self-Analysis?
Over time, an association is formed in the memory between cues and actions.
What is Habit Theory?
Events that occur independently of each other but together provide a sense of coherence.
What is Life Narratives?
Utilizing habit theory to embed health-promoting activities within daily habits and routines.
What is the strategic focus on the orchestration of daily activities and activity participation?
Symbolic actions with spiritual, cultural, or social meaning.
What are rituals?
A collaborative goal-oriented communication style with particular attention to the language of change.
What is Motivational Interviewing?
Proposes that autonomy, competence, and relatedness are essential needs for behavioral self-regulation.
What is Self-Determination Theory?