This engaging, user-friendly text guides occupational practitioners and students toward creatively designing and implementing occupation-based interventions for people with disabilities. The book covers the three primary proficiencies: understanding occupation in context, developing design skills, and applying occupation in practice.

Section 1: Becoming a Designer of Therapeutically Powerful Occupations1. Welcome to Occupation by Design2. The Creative Process of Designing OccupationsSection 2: Designing for Appeal: Pleasure, Productivity, and Restoration in Occupations3. The Notion of Balance4. Productivity in Occupation5. Pleasure in Occupations6. Restoration in Occupations7. Does the Intervention Appeal? Designing with Productivity, Pleasure, and RestorationSection 3: Designing for Intactness: The Spatial, Temporal, and Sociocultural Dimensions8. The Evolution of Today's Occupational Patterns9. The Spatial Dimension of Occupation10. The Temporal Dimension of Occupation11. The Sociocultural Dimension of Occupation12. Intactness: Designing with ContextSection 4: Designing for Accuracy: Elements of the Occupational Design Process13. A Study of Occupation-Based Practice14. Therapist Design Skill15. Collaborative Occupational Goal Generation16. Precision Fit of Intervention to Goal17. Accuracy: The Art of Great TherapySection 5: Conclusion18. You Are What You DoAppendices: Cases; Recommended Narratives of Disability; Recommended Narratives of Occupational Experience

After briefly looking over the book, it appears to be a great book for a basic OT theory course or intro course."" - Claudia Miller, MHS, OTR/L, Cincinnati State College, Cincinnati, Ohio""Thisis a good (very good!) text. It will help us introduce thephilosophical and theoretical notions of occupation (as process andoutcome) when students enter as freshmen and then continue to reinforcethese concepts throughout the time they are in the OT program."" - Jacquelyn Bolden, PhD, OTR/L, Florida A & M University,Tallahassee, Florida