The Meaning of Everyday Occupation
ISBN: 9781556429347 | 1556429347
Edition: 2ndFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Slack Incorporated
Pub. Date: 1/15/2011
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Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison. Provides a guide to the study of occupation and its implications for effective practice. Topics include meaning and performance in life, health and well-being within space and place, and occupation as a source of well-being and development. For occupational therapists. Previous edition was softcover, c2002. DNLM: Occupational Therapy--psychology.
| About the Author | p. vii |
| Acknowledgments | p. ix |
| Introduction | p. xi |
| Meaning: An Essential for Life | p. 1 |
| Personal and Social Meanings | p. 4 |
| Meaning and Performance in Life | p. 6 |
| Aspects of Seeing | p. 8 |
| How Do We "Know" Meaning? | p. 10 |
| The Open Door Policy | p. 14 |
| Meaning in Everyday Occupation | p. 19 |
| Happiness Is | p. 21 |
| Occupation and Being | p. 25 |
| Occupation and Becoming | p. 29 |
| Occupation and Belonging | p. 32 |
| Space and Place: Sources of Meaning in Occupation | p. 39 |
| Space and Place in Our Lives | p. 41 |
| Health and Well-Being Within Space and Place | p. 42 |
| Space and Therapy | p. 43 |
| From Space to Place in Therapy | p. 44 |
| Placelessness | p. 45 |
| A Place to Call Home | p. 46 |
| Special Places | p. 51 |
| A Geography of Health | p. 55 |
| Culture and Occupation: The Experience of Similarity and Difference | p. 61 |
| Culture as Similarity and Difference | p. 63 |
| Cultivating the Similar in Our Lives | p. 67 |
| Cultivating Difference in Our Lives | p. 70 |
| Structuring the Similarities: Routines, Habits, and Rituals | p. 71 |
| Disability as Difference | p. 76 |
| Occupation as a Source of Well-Being and Development | p. 83 |
| The Essence of Well-Being | p. 85 |
| Occupation and Human Development | p. 91 |
| Occupation to the End | p. 96 |
| Occupation as Meaningful Connection | p. 101 |
| Relation and the Professional | p. 103 |
| Relation and Well-Being | p. 106 |
| Occupational Forms of Relation | p. 109 |
| Occupational Therapy and Connectedness | p. 113 |
| Disability and Occupation | p. 123 |
| The Faces of Disability | p. 126 |
| Occupation as Disability Experience | p. 129 |
| Disability as Occupational Experience | p. 133 |
| Being the Bridge | p. 136 |
| Occupation as a Source of Spirituality | p. 143 |
| This Thing Called Spirituality | p. 145 |
| Spiritual "Health" | p. 146 |
| Spirituality and Occupation: Compatible Partners? | p. 148 |
| Spirituality and Everyday Occupation | p. 150 |
| Spirituality and Occupational Therapy | p. 154 |
| The Space Within | p. 157 |
| Creativity in Occupation as a Source of Meaning | p. 163 |
| Creativity From Without and Within | p. 166 |
| Arising From Chaos | p. 170 |
| Creativity and Health | p. 172 |
| To the Dancing Star | p. 179 |
| Occupation Speaks: Final Thoughts | p. 183 |
| The Therapist and the Splint | p. 186 |
| Index | p. 189 |
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