Occupation By Design: Building Therapeutic Power

Occupation By Design: Building Therapeutic Power

<ul><br /> <li>Interactive approach allows readers to use their own personal occupational experience as a basis for understanding the use of occupation as a therapy</li><br /> <li>Defines the seven phases of the design process: motivation, investigation, definition, ideation, idea selection, implementation, and evaluation</li><br /> <li>Provides opportunities for students to practice these seven steps through "Power Builder" exercises that enhance their creative thinking and problem-solving skills, thus strengthening their ability to provide therapeutically and create significant interventions</li><br /> <li>Fully explores the productive, pleasurable, and restorative dimensions of the occupational experience</li><br /> <li>Examines how to design intact interventions -- the concept of working in the natural settings of clients -- by understanding the temporal, spatial, and sociocultural context of the occupational experience</li><br /> <li>Emphasizes the design of highly accurate interventions for therapists to implement precise services with goals that are collaborative and evidence based relative to the client’s personal skills, knowledge, and experiences</li><br /> <li>The summary chapter, "You Are What You Do," challenges readers to think about what kind of occupational therapist they want to be</li><br /></ul>