This book describes the content and process for exploring and studying the social, cultural, and personal meanings inherent in activities. Authored by Gail Fidler and Beth Velde, this text examines the potential of activities to reflect and shape social, cultural, and personal meanings; to communicate certain physical, affective, and cognitive responses. Activities: Reality and Symbol guides the reader to a better understanding of activities and their potential in our lives by examining the processes of investigating and discovering the dynamics of daily activities. By looking at activities as never before, this book successfully addresses activity for its own meaning, symbol and purpose. This book is organized as a sequential, experiential learning process that includes structural assignments for interviews, personal reflections and group discussion. The beginning of the text presents an overview of the philosophy and the content focus of the book. Following chapters explain the symbolic process as giving meaning to the events and activities of daily life, and include an activity laboratory for experiencing symbol and metaphor. A detailed examination of activities, and a format for analyzing activities are explained. Final chapters apply prior learning to specific activities including play, games, sport, crafts, careers, and more.
OT practice is moving from the medically based model into the community--don’t be left behind! This unique and timely book sets forth the vital concepts of nontraditional community-based (rather than the traditional medical model) occupational therapy practice. It illuminates issues related to HIV/AIDS, homelessness, aging, disease, and much more, and points the way toward future research and practice techniques. In addition to defining the current state of the art in community practice, Community Occupational Therapy Education and Practice examines what it will take to prepare practitioners to be effective in nontraditional settings. Community Occupational Therapy Education and Practice: discusses ways to help OT students and faculty increase their cultural competence describes a university-designed demonstration program used to prepare graduates to work in community-based settings surveys students and faculty from a community-based program serving elderly African Americans explores cooperation between occupational therapists and the National Multiple Sclerosis Society examines ways that occupational therapists can help to facilitate international adoptions chronicles the development of a community-based return-to-work program for people with AIDS, and studies a program providing OT services to homeless individuals living in an emergency shelter in Florida You’ll also find a thorough description of the Pizzi Holistic Wellness Assessment tool for helping clients self-assess their health and well-being, a thoughtful look at the quality-of-life issues vital to OT practice, and much, much more!
Lifestyle Performance presents the theoretical base, structural format and application of the Life Style Performance Model. This model of occupational therapy practice provides ways of responding to the needs of community service.
Practicum in Adapted Physical Activity grounds students in an abilities-based approach to adapted physical activity, ultimately enhancing their success in their budding careers. No other workbook will help students learn more, remember more, and take more from their experience.
Practicum in Adapted Physical Activity grounds students in an abilities-based approach to adapted physical activity, ultimately enhancing their success in their budding careers. No other workbook will help students learn more, remember more, and take more from their experience.
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