The Meaning of Everyday Occupation,9781556429347

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The Meaning of Everyday Occupation

by Betty Risteen Hasselkus PhD, OTR, FAOTA

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2nd

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9781556429347

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1556429347

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Hardcover

Pub. Date:

1/15/2011

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Slack Incorporated

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Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison. Provides a guide to the study of occupation and its implications for effective practice. Topics include meaning and performance in life, health and well-being within space and place, and occupation as a source of well-being and development. For occupational therapists. Previous edition was softcover, c2002. DNLM: Occupational Therapy--psychology.

About the Author	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. xi
Meaning: An Essential for Life	p. 1
Personal and Social Meanings	p. 4
Meaning and Performance in Life	p. 6
Aspects of Seeing	p. 8
How Do We "Know" Meaning?	p. 10
The Open Door Policy	p. 14
Meaning in Everyday Occupation	p. 19
Happiness Is	p. 21
Occupation and Being	p. 25
Occupation and Becoming	p. 29
Occupation and Belonging	p. 32
Space and Place: Sources of Meaning in Occupation	p. 39
Space and Place in Our Lives	p. 41
Health and Well-Being Within Space and Place	p. 42
Space and Therapy	p. 43
From Space to Place in Therapy	p. 44
Placelessness	p. 45
A Place to Call Home	p. 46
Special Places	p. 51
A Geography of Health	p. 55
Culture and Occupation: The Experience of Similarity and Difference	p. 61
Culture as Similarity and Difference	p. 63
Cultivating the Similar in Our Lives	p. 67
Cultivating Difference in Our Lives	p. 70
Structuring the Similarities: Routines, Habits, and Rituals	p. 71
Disability as Difference	p. 76
Occupation as a Source of Well-Being and Development	p. 83
The Essence of Well-Being	p. 85
Occupation and Human Development	p. 91
Occupation to the End	p. 96
Occupation as Meaningful Connection	p. 101
Relation and the Professional	p. 103
Relation and Well-Being	p. 106
Occupational Forms of Relation	p. 109
Occupational Therapy and Connectedness	p. 113
Disability and Occupation	p. 123
The Faces of Disability	p. 126
Occupation as Disability Experience	p. 129
Disability as Occupational Experience	p. 133
Being the Bridge	p. 136
Occupation as a Source of Spirituality	p. 143
This Thing Called Spirituality	p. 145
Spiritual "Health"	p. 146
Spirituality and Occupation: Compatible Partners?	p. 148
Spirituality and Everyday Occupation	p. 150
Spirituality and Occupational Therapy	p. 154
The Space Within	p. 157
Creativity in Occupation as a Source of Meaning	p. 163
Creativity From Without and Within	p. 166
Arising From Chaos	p. 170
Creativity and Health	p. 172
To the Dancing Star	p. 179
Occupation Speaks: Final Thoughts	p. 183
The Therapist and the Splint	p. 186
Index	p. 189
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