1st Edition
Human Occupation Contemporary Concepts and Lifespan Perspectives
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 occupational concepts.
Section One - Overview of Human Occupation
Chapter One – Introduction to Human Occupation: Contemporary concepts and lifespan perspectives
Ted Brown, Stephen Isbel, Louise Gustafsson, Sharon Gutman, Diane Powers Dirette, Bethan Collins and Tim Barlott
Chapter Two – Overview of Human Occupation: Concepts and Principles
Matthew Molineux
Chapter Three – Overview of Occupation-centered practice
Louise Gustafsson and Matthew Molineux
Chapter Four – Person-centered Care in Occupation-based Practice
Diane Powers Dirette and Sharon Gutman
Chapter Five – Models of Practice that Focus on Human Occupation
Ellie Fossey, Gayle Restall, Mary Egan and Sandra Moll
Chapter Six – Participation and (Human) Occupation
Daniela Castro de Jong, Wilson Verdugo Huenumán, Andrea Yupanqui-Concha, Carolina Vásquez Oyarzun and Cristian Aranda-Farías
Chapter Seven – Practice Reasoning in Occupational Therapy: Introducing the Model of Occupational Therapy Reasoning
Craig Greber, Stephen Isbel, Justin Scanlan and Jenniffer Garcia-Rojas
Section Two - Contemporary Perspectives on Human Occupation
Chapter Eight – Bringing Critical Perspectives into Occupation-based Practices
Lisette Farias, Gail Teachman, Rebecca M. Aldrich, Roshan Galvaan and Debbie Laliberte Rudman
Chapter Nine – The Situated Nature of Human Occupation
Rebecca M. Aldrich, Lisette Farias, Roshan Galvaan, Debbie Laliberte Rudman and Gail Teachman
Chapter Ten – Equity, Disadvantage, Justice, and Human Occupation
Sharon Gutman
Chapter Eleven – Undoing Coloniality: An Indigenous Occupation-Based Perspective
Isla G. Emery-Whittington
Chapter Twelve – Critical Disability Studies Perspectives on Human Occupation
Marjorie Désormeaux-Moreau, Bethan Collins, Laura Yvonne Bulk, Susan Mahipaul, Stephanie LeBlanc-Omstead and Tal Jarus
Chapter Thirteen – Occupation and Social Sanctioning
Niki Kiepek, Cristian Mauricio Valderrama Núñez, Tanya Elizabeth Benjamin-Thomas, Michael Palapal Sy and Marcel Nazabal Amores
Chapter Fourteen – Creativity, Hope, and Collective Emancipatory Experimentation: Tools for Social Transformation Through Occupational Therapy
Vagner Dos Santos and Gelya Frank
Chapter Fifteen – Social Occupational Therapy: Contributions to Design a Field of Knowledge and Practices
Roseli Esquerdo Lopes, Denise Dias Barros and Ana Paula Serrata Malfitano
Chapter Sixteen – Pragmatism: Current and Future Influence on Occupational Therapy and Occupational Science
Jacob Østergaard Madsen, Rodolfo Morrison, Vagner Dos Santos and Tim Barlott
Chapter Seventeen – Gender and Human Occupation
Jens Schneider, Aiko Hoshino, Daniel Swiatek, Gunilla M. Liedberg, Mathilda Björk, Heather Baglee, Gustavo Artur Monzeli and Ted Brown
Chapter Eighteen – Technology and Human Occupation
Emma M. Smith, Christopher Trujillo, Stephanie Lancaster, Caroline Fischl, Rosalie H. Wang and Ted Brown
Chapter Nineteen – Human Occupation and Environmental Sustainability
Lisa C. Lieb , Tenelle Hodson and Camille Dieterle
Section Three - Principal Concepts
Chapter Twenty – Key Occupational Concepts: Occupational Engagement, Occupational Balance, Occupational Adaptation, and Participation
Jane A. Davis, Carita Håkansson and Kim Walder
Chapter Twenty-one – Person Factors: Values, Beliefs, Spirituality, Body Functions, and Body Structures
Barbara M. Doucet and Carrie A. Ciro
Chapter Twenty-two – Performance Skills: Motor, Process and Social Interaction
Karina M. Dancza, Anita Volkert, Karen P. Y. Liu and Louise Gustafsson
Chapter Twenty-three – Performance Patterns: Habits, Routines, Rituals, and Roles
Heather Fritz
Chapter Twenty-four – Evolving and Pluralistic: Understanding the Environment in Occupational Therapy
Tammy Aplin, Ana Paula Serrata-Malfitano and Tim Barlott
Chapter Twenty-five – Activities of Daily Living and Self-Care as Human Occupation
Bethan Collins, Karen Whalley Hammell and Vicky McQuillan
Section Four - Human Occupation Across the Lifespan and Life Course
Chapter Twenty-six – Human Occupations of Infants, Toddlers, and Preschoolers
Rondalyn V. Whitney
Chapter Twenty-seven – Occupations of School-aged Children
Evguenia S. Popova, Jane C. O’Brien, Mong-Lin Yu, Jarrett Wolske, Adam DePrimo and Ted Brown
Chapter Twenty-eight – Human Occupations of Adolescence and Youth
Sandra L. Rogers
Chapter Twenty-nine – Human Occupations of Early Adulthood
Louise Gustafsson
Chapter Thirty – Human Occupations of Middle Adulthood (ages 40–65)
Rosanne DiZazzo-Miller, Louise Gustafsson and Tomomi McAuliffe
Chapter Thirty-one – Human Occupations of Late Adulthood
Emily J. Balog
Chapter Thirty-two – Future Considerations and Conclusion
Sharon Gutman and Ted Brown
Section Five - Domains/Types of Human Occupation
Chapter Thirty-three – Instrumental Activities of Daily Living and Health Management as Human Occupation
Claire Pearce, Stephen Isbel and Susanne Guidetti
Chapter Thirty-four – Work, Productivity, and Volunteering as Human Occupation
Mary W. Hildebrand
Chapter Thirty-five – Education as Human Occupation
Lorry Liotta-Kleinfeld, Margaret Newsham Beckley, Shelley Wright, Bryan Gee and Ted Brown
Chapter Thirty-six – Play As Human Occupation
Helen Lynch, Ann Kennedy-Behr, Sylvie Ray-Kaeser, Laurette Olson and Ted Brown
Chapter Thirty-seven – Leisure and Recreation as Human Occupation
Benita Powrie, Szu-Wei Chen, Barbara Prudhomme White and Ted Brown
Chapter Thirty-eight – Social Participation as Human Occupation
Luke Robinson and Lisa O’Brien
Chapter Thirty-nine – Sleep and Rest as Human Occupation
Whitney Lucas Molitor, Lorena Leive, Ben Sellar, Belkis Landa-Gonzalez and Ted Brown
Chapter Forty – Sexuality as Human Occupation
Breanne Grasso
Biography
Ted Brown is a 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 leads the Occupational Therapy program 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 (she/her) is Head of Occupational Therapy in the University of Salford, UK. Bethan completed her primary degree in Occupational Therapy and her PhD in Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.
Tim Barlott is 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.
