The Meaning of Everyday Occupation, Second Edition is a text designed to bring the reader closer to the world of occupation. This new edition probes more deeply into the meanings of everyday occupation and offers opportunities to the reader for personal reflection about day-to-day occupational patterns.The continuing emphasis of this Second Edition, by award-winning author Betty Risteen Hasselkus, PhD, is on everyday occupation as experience. The Meaning of Everyday Occupation motivates occupational therapists to think about how occupation is experienced in everyday life, to absorb the complexity of meanings imbedded in daily life, and to value the personal and social significance of everyday occupation in their own and their clients' lives.Chapters themes include:Space and place-sources of meaning in occupationCulture and occupationOccupation as a source of well-being and developmentOccupation and relationshipsDisability and occupationOccupation as a source of spiritualityCreativity in occupation as a source of meaningThroughout the Second Edition, the text focuses on the ways in which daily occupation contributes to meaning in our lives, providing a sound understanding of the daily routines and activities to which we so often give little attention. Emerging trends in occupational therapy are also examined, focusing on strengthened globalization, the movement toward populations and systems as clients, and the increasing emphasis on experiential definitions of occupation in education, practice and research. Instructors in educational settings can visit www.efacultylounge.com for newly developed material to be used for teaching in the classroom.The Meaning of Everyday Occupation, Second Edition is a unique and comprehensive text for the study of occupation and its implications for effective practice. Verbatim narratives from occupational therapists in practice and excerpts from the author's life are integrated with theories of occupation and occupational science throughout the book, yielding a coherent, comprehensive and readable text on the importance of occupation to the quality of daily life.
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The continuing emphasis in this second edition is on everyday occupation as experience. It motivates occupational therapists to think about how occupation is experienced in everyday life, to absorb the complexity of meanings imbedded in daily life, and to value the personal and social significance of everyday occupation in their own and their clients' lives.
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About the AuthorAcknowledgmentsIntroduction Chapter 1 Meaning: An Essential for Life Personal and Social Meanings Meaning and Performance in Life Aspects of Seeing How Do We "Know" Meaning? The Open Door Policy Chapter 2 Meaning in Everyday Occupation Happiness Is Occupation and Being Occupation and Becoming Occupation and Belonging Chapter 3 Space and Place: Sources of Meaning in Occupation Space and Place in Our Lives Health and Well-Being Within Space and Place Space and Therapy From Space to Place in Therapy Placelessness A Place to Call Home Special Places A Geography of Health Chapter 4 Culture and Occupation: The Experience of Similarity and Difference Culture as Similarity and Difference Cultivating the Similar in Our Lives Cultivating Difference in Our Lives Structuring the Similarities: Routines, Habits, and Rituals Disability as Difference Chapter 5 Occupation as a Source of Well-Being and Development The Essence of Well-Being Occupation and Human Development Occupation to the End Chapter 6 Occupation as Meaningful Connection Relation and the Professional Relation and Well-Being Occupational Forms of Relation Occupational Therapy and Connectedness Chapter 7 Disability and Occupation The Faces of Disability Occupation as Disability Experience Disability as Occupational Experience Being the Bridge Chapter 8 Occupation as a Source of Spirituality This Thing Called Spirituality Spiritual "Health" Spirituality and Occupation: Compatible Partners? Spirituality and Everyday Occupation Spirituality and Occupational Therapy The Space Within Chapter 9 Creativity in Occupation as a Source of Meaning Creativity From Without and Within Arising From Chaos Creativity and Health To the Dancing Star Chapter 10 Occupation Speaks: Final Thoughts The Therapist and the Splint Index
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ISBN
9781556429347
Publisert
2011-01-01
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2. utgave
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SLACK Incorporated
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683 gr
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254 mm
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178 mm
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19 mm
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06, P
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Engelsk
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Antall sider
216