Description
Book SynopsisNewly updated to address emerging directions in occupational therapy and occupational science,
The Meaning of Everyday Occupation, Third Edition encourages occupational therapy personnel-students, educators, researchers, and practitioners-to recognize humans as occupational beings and to understand the meaning and significance of everyday occupation in day-to-day life.
Written by award-winning and internationally known authors Drs. Betty Risteen Hasselkus and Virginia Allen Dickie, the
Third Edition explores the concept of meaning as it relates to occupation in daily life. Each chapter is augmented by the authors' personal reflections, narratives from occupational therapists in practice, and quotations from participants in the authors' occupational research, creating a text in which the concepts and theories of occupation and occupational therapy come alive for the reader.
Themes in the
Third Edition include:
- Meaning in everyday life and its occupations
- Space and place as sources of meaning
- Culture in everyday occupation and in the context of therapy
- Well-being and development through everyday occupation
- Occupation as connection
- Disability and occupation
- Occupation and the human spirit
- Everyday creativity
Emphasizing occupation as experience, the comprehensive
Third Edition champions the contributions of meaning to a client-centered approach to practice. This brings forward a new understanding of how to therapeutically affect the systems in which we all live and work.
The everyday occupation of our lives is often overlooked. By increasing the visibility of everyday occupation,
The Meaning of Everyday Occupation, Third Edition offers readers the opportunity for personal reflection on day-to-day occupational patterns. By recognizing and acknowledging these patterns in their own lives, occupational therapy personnel can better understand how day-to-day occupation and disruption of that occupation affects the lives of clients.
Table of Contents
- Contents
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- About the Authors
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Meaning in Everyday Life
- Individual and Community Meanings
- Meaning and Performance in Life
- How Do We “Know” Meaning?
- Being Open to Ways of Knowing
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- Chapter 2 Meaning in Everyday Occupation
- Defining Occupation
- Breaking Out of the Box: Doing, Being, Becoming, and Belonging
- Occupational Justice
- Chapter 3 Space and Place: Sources of Meaning
- Space and Place in Our Lives
- Space and Therapy
- A Place to Call Home
- Special Places
- A Geography of Health
- Chapter 4 A Cultural Perspective on Everyday Occupation
- Culture Defined
- Recognizing and Understanding Our Own Culture(s)
- Encountering “Otherness”
- Culture in the Therapy Context
- Chapter 5 Everyday Occupation: Source of Well-Being and Development
- The Essence of Well-Being
- Synthesis Through Occupation
- Relative Well-Being
- Occupation and Lifespan Development
- Occupation as the Experience of Everyday Living
- Chapter 6 Occupation as Meaningful Connection
- Relation and Well-Being
- Occupational Forms of Relation
- Relation and the Professional
- The Therapeutic Relationship as Connection
- Occupational Therapy and Connectedness
- Chapter 7 Disability and Occupation
- Disability as Difference
- Shifting the Focus to Participation
- The Faces of Disability
- Victory and Defeat
- Occupation as Disability Experience
- Disability as Occupational Experience
- Being the Bridge
- Chapter 8 Occupation and the Human Spirit
- Occupation and the Human Spirit in Everyday Life
- The Human Spirit in the World of Occupational Therapy
- Occupation and the Space Within
- Chapter 9 Everyday Creativity as a Source of Meaning
- Creativity From Without and Within
- Arising From Chaos
- Creativity and Health
- The Dark Side of Creativity
- To the Dancing Star
- Chapter 10 Occupation Speaks: Final Thoughts
- The Therapist and the Splint
- Index
