This user-friendly text guides OT practitioners and students towards
creatively designing and implementing occupation-based interventions for people
with disabilities. It covers: understanding occupation in context; developing
design skills; and applying occupation in practice.This user-friendly text guides OT practitioners and students towards
creatively designing and implementing occupation-based interventions for people
with disabilities. It covers: understanding occupation in context; developing
design skills; and applying occupation in practice.; The book's approach focuses on the interactive process of designing
client-centred interventions, building a bridge between occupational science
and its application in occupational therapy. It defines the seven phases of the
design process - motivation, investigation, definition, ideation, idea
selection, implementation and evaluation - and then provides opportunities for
students to practise these steps through "Power Builder" exercises that enhance
their creative thinking and problem-solving skills. Throughout, the book
emphasizes the design of highly accurate interventions for therapists to
implement precise services with goals which are collaborative and
evidence-based, relative to the client's personal skills, knowledge and
experiences. The summary chapter, "You Are What You Do", challenges readers to
think about what kind of occupational therapist they want to be.
