HSS 2104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Occupational Therapy, Health Promotion

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: HSS 2104
• Professor: Tracey O' Sullivan

Document Summary

Human activity & occupation and health week 1 reading (canadian association of occupational therapists) caot position statement: occupations and health. Supports changes that allows all people in canada to have the opportunities and resources to engage in occupations for their health and well-being. Occupations: groups of activities and tasks of everyday life, named organized, and given value and meaning by individuals and a culture. Includes self-care, leisure, contribution to the social and economic fabric of their communities. Are the main concern yet it is also the helpful treatment of occupational therapy. Enabling/enablement: core competency (ability to do the job) of occupational therapy. Enabling occupation: enabling people to choose, organize, perform those occupations they find useful and meaningful in their environment. Health: is more than just disease and illness. A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. Engagement in occupation is complex; physical, psychological, spiritual, social, cultural, political.