236 Pages
14 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
236 Pages
14 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
236 Pages
14 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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The fourth edition of this popular student-friendly textbook provides a thorough and detailed exploration of the key theoretical approaches that inform occupational therapy in the 21st century. It provides a comprehensive overview of how occupation can be used therapeutically, and of both the determinants and consequences of occupation.
The book uses the familiar filing cabinet metaphor to... Read more
I. INTRODUCTION
- What is theory?
- Knowledge needed to be an occupational therapist
- Occupation and occupational performance problems
- The complexity of occupation
- The consequences of occupation
- The occupational therapy filing cabinet
- Conceptual models in the filing cabinet
- Models of practice in the filing cabinet
- The filing cabinet in action
- The socio-cultural determinants of occupation
- The psychological-emotional determinants of occupation (with Terry Krupa)
- The physical determinants of occupation (with Briano DiRezze and Tara Packham)
- The cognitive-neurological determinants of occupation (with Setareh Ghahari)
- The environmental determinants of occupation (with Mary Law)
- Review of determinants of occupation
- Model of Human Occupation
- Occupational Adaptation
- Ecology of Human Performance
- Six descriptive models of occupation, person, and environment
- Review of occupation-focused models
- LIVES – Eight people who changed how we think about occupation
- TIMES – Occupation in the 20th century and beyond (with Penny Bryden)
- Conclusion
II. THE DETERMINANTS OF OCCUPATION
III. OCCUPATION-FOCUSED MODELS
IV. LIVES AND TIMES IN OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY THEORY
Biography
Mary Ann McColl, PhD, MTS, is a Professor in the School of Rehabilitation Therapy and Health Services and the Policy Research Institute at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario.






