Occupation-centered, based, focused
Occupation Centered
Occupation is at the "center" of everything we do" / professional specific perspective.
Link everything we do to the occupational core of our profession
"Occupational Lens"/ Professional Reasoning
Occupation-based
employing occupation based methods when we make use of a person's engagement in occupation as the method of our evaluations and interventions
Occupation based evaluation methods include performance and task analysis
Advantages to using occupation-based methods
Political: strong message to others that we have adopted our profession's perspective
Occupation based performance analyses provide us a valid way to evaluate the quality of a person's occupational performance, not just outcome
Task analysis provide valid way to measure person factors, etc impact daily life task performance
Power of occupation as an therapeutic agent
- occupation occurs just as it ordinarily unfolds in the person's everyday life. 2. the occupation matches the person's goals. 3 engagement in occupation offers appeal in the form of desirable levels of pleasure, productivity and restoration
Occupation-focused
occupation must be proximal
engaging the person in occupation
immediate focus is on evaluating and or changing a person's quality of occupational performance - "here and now"
discussing occupation, but not engaged in the occupation
observational evaluation methods are occupation based
COPM is occupation focused because it is a interview
Intervention Phase
compensatory model: adaptive occupation (O.F, but not always O.B). It is only O.B when there is an opportunity to practice and learn adaptive occupation. If the proposed intervention also progresses the client developing occupational skill, then the adaptive strategy becomes O.F
Education/teaching: O.F but O.B because there is no active engagement in occupation
Acquisitional Model: occupational skills training - O.B + O.F e.g engaging a child in playing ball in order to become better at playing ball
Restorative models: O.B but not O.F because it is person factors that are in proximal focus