Brock Cook

Aidan Parsons

Charters Towers

Community Mental Health

Occupation Based Practice: In Mental Health

Occupation Based Practice: In Mental Health

Townsville Adult Acute

Inpatient Mental Health

Unit

0900-1030Intro to OBP

The Core of OTWhat is Occupation?

How your placement fit / did not fit into Occupation

>Break<

1030-1200Operation Occupation

Occupation Based InterviewReflection on word cloud & Assessment

Group discussion about Ax.

Occupation Based Practice: In Mental Health

What is Occupational

Therapy?

"....provides services to individuals and populations to develop maintain, restore and optimize health and function throughout the lifespan. This includes providing services to

people compromised by aging, injury, disease or environmental factors."

"....Physiotherapy identifies and maximises quality of life and movement potential....This

encompasses physical, psychological, emotional, and social well being.

(Physiotherapists Board of New Zealand)

Physiotherapists Board of New Zealand. (2009). Annual Report 2008-2009. Wellington:

Author

Occupational therapy is a client-centred health profession concerned with promoting health and

well being through occupation.

The primary goal of occupational therapy is to enable people to participate in the activities of

everyday life.

(WFOT 2012)

Definition "Occupational Therapy"

"...occupation as ends and occupation as means..."

Gray, J. (1998). Putting occupation into practice: Occupation as ends, occupation as means. American Journal of

Occupational Therapy, 52(5), 354-364

Occupation as an ends is the goal or the product of intervention.

Occupation as a means is when a specific occupation is used as a means in therapy to bring

about change in a person's performance.

Perspectives in Human Occupation: Participation in Life / [edited by] Paula Kramer, Jim Hinojosa, Charlotte Brasic

Royeen. (pg 2)

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Occupation is perceived as “doing” by the individual, is goal-directed, carries meaning for the individual, and is repeatable. (McLaughlin-

Gray, 1997)

Occupation is groups of activities and tasks of everyday life, named, organized, and given value and meaning by individuals and a culture; occupation is everything people do to occupy themselves, including looking after themselves (self-care), enjoying life (leisure), and contributing to the social and economic fabric of their communities (productivity) (Canadian Association ofOccupational Therapists, 1997)

Occupations are the daily living tasks that are part of an individual’s lifestyle (Golledge, 1998).

Occupation is engagement in activities, tasks, and roles for the purpose of

productive pursuit, maintaining one’s self in the environment, and for

purposes of relaxation, entertainment, creativity, and celebration

(Christiansen, Baum, & Bass-Haugen, 2005)

Occupation is the doing of work, play, or activities of daily living within a

temporal, physical, and sociocultural context that characterizes much of

human life (Kielhofner, 2008)

Occupation provides the mechanism for social interaction and societal development and growth, forming the foundation of community, local, and

national identity because individuals not only engage in separate pursuits, they are able to plan and execute group activity to the extent of national government or to achieve international goals for

individual, mutual, and community purposes (Wilcock, 2006)

The Nature of Occupation

active

purposeful

meaningful

contextualised

impacts on health

Matthew Molineux

Occupational Reflection

From your experience

1 example of a time that you felt 100% occupation focused

1 example of a time when you felt there was no occupation focus and could have been

What would you change about what happened to make it more occupation focused.

Break!!!

Operation Occupation

6hrs in other ward meetings

3hrs per functional assessment

12hrs in Ward rounds

3hrs running groups

12hrs doing admin tasks

38hrs in a working week 36hrs before ANY

interventions This left me with only 2hrs a week

to do any 1on1 interventions

Gray, J. (1998). Putting occupation into practice: Occupation as ends, occupation as means. American Journal of

Occupational Therapy, 52(5), 354-364

"...occupation as ends and occupation as

means..."

Doing-Being-Becoming Occupation Based Therapists

Occupational Language

Engage with other professionals

Continuing Professional Development

Confident in the power of occupation!

Occupational Language

Engage with other professionals

Continuing Professional Development

Be Confident in the power of Occupation!

Putting it into practice

Occupational Therapy Discussion