This comprehensive textbook provides occupational therapy and science students and practitioners with a complete overview of the key human occupation concepts, as well as a range of perspectives through which occupational therapy and occupational science can be viewed and understood.
Comprising 40 chapters, the book is divided into five sections:
- Section 1: Overview of Human Occupation. Introducing the occupational therapy field and its conceptual landscape, including different models of therapeutic practice and practice reasoning
- Section 2: Contemporary Perspectives on Human Occupation. Including critical perspectives on disability and race and the philosophical foundations of occupational science.
- Section 3: Principal Concepts. Explaining the conceptual language of human occupation across key person, social, psychological, physical, performance, and environmental issues.
- Section 4: Human Occupation across the Lifespan and Life Course. Covers human occupation from infancy to later adulthood.
- Section 5: Domains/Types of Human Occupation. From sleep to play, sexuality to social participation, and education to work.
Uniquely international in scope, each chapter in this edited book includes learning objectives, key terms, summary dot points, review questions, and a list of additional online resources for readers to refer to. This is a complete resource for anyone beginning an occupational therapy course, clinicians seeking an accessible reference work to support their practice, or occupational scientists needing to refer to contemporary occupation-related concepts.
This comprehensive textbook provides occupational therapy and science students and practitioners with a complete overview of the key human occupation concepts, as well as a range of perspectives through which occupational therapy and occupational science can be viewed and understood.
Section One - Overview of Human Occupation
Chapter One Introduction to
Human Occupation: Contemporary Concepts and Lifespan Perspectives
Chapter Two
Overview of Human Occupation: Concepts and Principles
Chapter Three
Overview of Occupation-centered Practice
Chapter Four Person-centered Care
in Occupation-based Practice
Chapter Five Models of Practice that Focus on
Human Occupation
Chapter Six Participation and (Human) Occupation
Chapter
Seven Practice Reasoning in Occupational Therapy: Introducing the Model of
Occupational Therapy Reasoning Section Two - Contemporary Perspectives on
Human Occupation
Chapter Eight Bringing Critical Perspectives into
Occupation-based Practices
Chapter Nine The Situated Nature of Human
Occupation
Chapter Ten Equity, Disadvantage, Justice, and Human Occupation
Chapter Eleven Undoing Coloniality: An Indigenous Occupation-based
Perspective
Chapter Twelve Critical Disability Studies Perspectives on
Human Occupation
Chapter Thirteen Occupation and Social Sanctioning
Chapter
Fourteen Creativity, Hope, and Collective Emancipatory Experimentation:
Tools for Social Transformation through Occupational Therapy
Chapter Fifteen
Social Occupational Therapy: Contributions to Design a Field of Knowledge
and Practices
Chapter Sixteen Pragmatism: Current and Future Influence on
Occupational Therapy and Occupational Science
Chapter Seventeen Gender and
Human Occupation
Chapter Eighteen Technology and Human Occupation
Chapter
Nineteen Human Occupation and Environmental Sustainability Section Three -
Principal Concepts
Chapter Twenty Key Occupational Concepts: Occupational
Engagement, Occupational Balance, Occupational Adaptation, and Participation
Chapter Twenty-one Person Factors: Values, Beliefs, Spirituality, Body
Functions, and Body Structures
Chapter Twenty-two Performance Skills:
Motor, Process, and Social Interaction
Chapter Twenty-three Performance
Patterns: Habits, Routines, Rituals, and Roles
Chapter Twenty-four Evolving
and Pluralistic: Understanding the Environment in Occupational Therapy
Section Four - Human Occupation across the Lifespan and Life Course
Chapter
Twenty-five Human Occupations of Infants, Toddlers, and Preschoolers
Chapter Twenty-six Occupations of School-aged Children
Chapter Twenty-seven
Human Occupations of Adolescence and Youth
Chapter Twenty-eight Human
Occupations of Early Adulthood
Chapter Twenty-nine Human Occupations of
Middle Adulthood (Ages 4065)
Chapter Thirty Human Occupations of Late
Adulthood
Chapter Thirty-one Future Considerations and Conclusion Section
Five - Domains/Types of Human Occupation
Chapter Thirty-two Activities of
Daily Living and Self-Care as Human Occupation
Chapter Thirty-three
Instrumental Activities of Daily Living and Health Management as Human
Occupation
Chapter Thirty-four Work, Productivity, and Volunteering as
Human Occupation
Chapter Thirty-five Education as Human Occupation
Chapter
Thirty-six Play as Human Occupation
Chapter Thirty-seven Leisure and
Recreation as Human Occupation
Chapter Thirty-eight Social Participation as
Human Occupation
Chapter Thirty-nine Sleep and Rest as Human Occupation
Chapter Forty Sexuality as Human Occupation
Ted Brown is Professor of Occupational Therapy and Undergraduate Course Director in the Department of Occupational Therapy at Monash University Peninsula Campus, Australia. Prior to this, he worked as an occupational therapy clinician for 16 years in Canada and Australia, primarily in the area of pediatrics.
Stephen Isbel is Professor of Occupational Therapy at the University of Canberra, Australia. He has worked in the USA, the UK, and Australia, primarily in the areas of aged care, community care, and adult neurological rehabilitation.
Louise Gustafsson is Professor and Lead of the Occupational Therapy Program at Griffith University, Australia. Her research aims to address occupational issues of older adults and individuals with neurological conditions.
Sharon Gutman is a professor at Rutgers University in the Occupational Therapy Doctorate Program. Her body of work has primarily addressed the development and assessment of interventions designed to help sheltered homeless people transition from homelessness to supported housing.
Diane Powers Dirette is a professor in the Interdisciplinary Health Sciences PhD Program at Western Michigan University, and her research interests are focused on treatments for people with acquired brain injuries.
Bethan Collins is the Head of Occupational Therapy at the University of Salford, UK. Bethan completed her primary degree in Occupational Therapy and her PhD at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.
Tim Barlott is an assistant professor in the Department of Occupational Therapy at the University of Alberta. His work pursues theory, practices, and collective processes that can be liberating for psychiatrized and other marginalized people.
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