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Book Synopsis
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.

Trade Review
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

""Thisis a good (very good!) text. It will help us introduce thephilosophical and theoretical notions of occupation (as process andoutcome) when students enter as freshmen and then continue to reinforcethese concepts throughout the time they are in the OT program."" - Jacquelyn Bolden, PhD, OTR/L, Florida A & M University,Tallahassee, Florida

Table of Contents
  • Section 1: Becoming a Designer of Therapeutically Powerful Occupations
  • 1. Welcome to Occupation by Design
  • 2. The Creative Process of Designing Occupations
  • Section 2: Designing for Appeal: Pleasure, Productivity, and Restoration in Occupations
  • 3. The Notion of Balance
  • 4. Productivity in Occupation
  • 5. Pleasure in Occupations
  • 6. Restoration in Occupations
  • 7. Does the Intervention Appeal? Designing with Productivity, Pleasure, and Restoration
  • Section 3: Designing for Intactness: The Spatial, Temporal, and Sociocultural Dimensions
  • 8. The Evolution of Today's Occupational Patterns
  • 9. The Spatial Dimension of Occupation
  • 10. The Temporal Dimension of Occupation
  • 11. The Sociocultural Dimension of Occupation
  • 12. Intactness: Designing with Context
  • Section 4: Designing for Accuracy: Elements of the Occupational Design Process
  • 13. A Study of Occupation-Based Practice
  • 14. Therapist Design Skill
  • 15. Collaborative Occupational Goal Generation
  • 16. Precision Fit of Intervention to Goal
  • 17. Accuracy: The Art of Great Therapy
  • Section 5: Conclusion
  • 18. You Are What You Do
  • Appendices: Cases; Recommended Narratives of Disability; Recommended Narratives of Occupational Experience

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    A Paperback by Doris E. Pierce

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      Publisher: MP-FAD F.A. Davis
      Publication Date: 2/28/2003 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780803610484, 978-0803610484
      ISBN10: 0803610483

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Trade Review
      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

      ""Thisis a good (very good!) text. It will help us introduce thephilosophical and theoretical notions of occupation (as process andoutcome) when students enter as freshmen and then continue to reinforcethese concepts throughout the time they are in the OT program."" - Jacquelyn Bolden, PhD, OTR/L, Florida A & M University,Tallahassee, Florida

      Table of Contents
      • Section 1: Becoming a Designer of Therapeutically Powerful Occupations
      • 1. Welcome to Occupation by Design
      • 2. The Creative Process of Designing Occupations
      • Section 2: Designing for Appeal: Pleasure, Productivity, and Restoration in Occupations
      • 3. The Notion of Balance
      • 4. Productivity in Occupation
      • 5. Pleasure in Occupations
      • 6. Restoration in Occupations
      • 7. Does the Intervention Appeal? Designing with Productivity, Pleasure, and Restoration
      • Section 3: Designing for Intactness: The Spatial, Temporal, and Sociocultural Dimensions
      • 8. The Evolution of Today's Occupational Patterns
      • 9. The Spatial Dimension of Occupation
      • 10. The Temporal Dimension of Occupation
      • 11. The Sociocultural Dimension of Occupation
      • 12. Intactness: Designing with Context
      • Section 4: Designing for Accuracy: Elements of the Occupational Design Process
      • 13. A Study of Occupation-Based Practice
      • 14. Therapist Design Skill
      • 15. Collaborative Occupational Goal Generation
      • 16. Precision Fit of Intervention to Goal
      • 17. Accuracy: The Art of Great Therapy
      • Section 5: Conclusion
      • 18. You Are What You Do
      • Appendices: Cases; Recommended Narratives of Disability; Recommended Narratives of Occupational Experience

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