Individuals tied together by occupational engagement and a collective sense of meaning
Community
Exploring and understanding a community’s potential or ability to address health problems
Community capacity building
“A state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity” (WHO, 1998)
Health
involves overtly changing one’s behavior, and modifying the environment in such a way as to facilitate and maintain the change
Action stage
Creating the conditions necessary for health at individual, structural, social, and environmental levels through an understanding of the determinants of health: peace, shelter, education, food, income, a stable ecosystem, sustainable resources, social justice, and equity
Health promotion
Activities to maximize the quality of life of individuals experiencing disease or disability
Tertiary health promotion
When the community and the healthcare practitioner collaborate on identifying needs and the program is developed in collaboration
Community Partnership
Socialized group of family and friends
Microsystem
creates social order through government, law, policy, and public services
Macrosystem
Wellness
a state of mental and physical balance and fitness
Uses a capacity-based approach to explore the community needs and build programs to address these community-specified needs
Community-built practice
A research model in which the community designs the research program and participates in the implementation of research focused on its own health issues
Community-based participatory research (CBPR)
the individual can identify and acknowledge a problem. They try to understand the problem and are motivated to do something to remedy the problem
Contemplation stage
refers to the individual’s inability to identify that they have a problem and as a result, they have no intention of changing their behavior
Precontemplation stage
a “nineteenth-century humanitarian approach to treatment for individuals with mental illness that centered around productive, creative, and recreational occupations”
Moral treatment
Activities for the well population to prevent disease or disability
Primary health promotion
Activities to encourage positive health behaviors to improve health status
Secondary health promotion
The location in which occupational therapy services are provided
Community-based practice
community, school, work, and religious organizations
Mesosystem
Promoting a healthy lifestyle at the individual, group, organizational, community
Prevention
Applying a client-centered approach to a community Community partnership When the community and the healthcare practitioner collaborate on identifying needs and the program is developed in collaboration
Community-centered
When occupational therapy practitioners use their skills to explore the determinants of health beyond the physical and take on a systems approach to understanding health and disease
Community practice
characterized by planning for change, acquiring needed resources to facilitate behavior change, and making public statements about one’s intention to change
Preparation stage
consists of the individual with his or her unique physiological and psychological composition
Ontosystem
An intervention approach designed to address clients with or without a disability who are at risk for occupational performance problems
Disability prevention