400160 Lecture 5: Introduction to Occupational Therapy - file 5

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22 Jun 2018

School

UWS

Department

University of Western Sydney

Course

400160

Professor

Nikki Tulliani

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Occupation: Exploring life roles, occupations, activities

and tasks - lec 5

Empower lives through occupation

Intrinsic link between health and occupation

Occupational performance and participation is unique to occupational therapy

"Occupations are person directed daily life activities that match, support or address identified

participation goals" - (AOTA, 2014)

Roles, habits and routines can be healthy or harmful

Term Definition

Roles Positions in society having expected responsibilities and privileges

Set of behaviours (socially agreed upon/social norms)

Role identification (we see ourselves as a mother, student, parent,

etc)

Dynamic and change overtime

Roles are embedded into our sociocultural lifestyles

Roles are learned through a process of socialisation - recognised by

society

Hierarchy of roles

Occupations Client-directed daily life activities that match and support or address

identified participation goals.

A broad term that encompasses and builds upon tasks and activities

Activities Actions designed and selected to support the development of performance

skills and performance patterns to enhance occupational engagement.

Activities often are components of occupations and always hold meaning,

relevance, and perceived utility for clients at their level of interest and

motivation.

Often used interchangeably

(Tasks are the basics units that make up an activity)

A set of purposeful actions/behaviours that contribute to the overall

performance of the occupation

Needs to be supported by persons skills and abilities

Actions Observable behaviours that are recognisable

Contribute to the activity

Contribute to doing the occupation

Habits - specific automatic behaviours that are repeated by a person

Little variation (consistent) in the way that habits are performed

Can be altered in different environments

Can be healthy/unhealthy

Can enable or be dominating

Happens automatically

Routines - higher order habit

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400160 Lecture 5: Introduction to Occupational Therapy - file 5

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