Activity Analysis: Application to Occupation / Edition 5

by Gayle I. Hersch

Overview

To respond to the renewed focus by the occupational therapy profession upon occupation, the fifth edition of Activity Analysis and Application has been updated and renamed to reflect this latest emphasis. While Activity Analysis: Application to Occupation, Fifth Edition maintains the sequential process of learning activity analysis, this step-by-step approach now helps students analyze activity for the purpose of optimizing the client's occupational performance.

Gayle Hersch, Nancy Lamport, and Margaret Coffey successfully guide students through the development of clinical reasoning skills critical to planning a client's return to meaningful engagement in valued occupations. The authors utilize a straightforward teaching approach that allows students to progress developmentally in understanding both the analysis and application of activity to client intervention.

The Occupational Therapy Practice Framework: Domain and Process, with a prominent focus on occupation as this profession's philosophical basis for practice, has been incorporated in the updated forms and explanations of the activity analysis approach.

Activity Analysis: Application to Occupation, Fifth Edition is a worthy contribution to the professional education of occupational therapists in furthering their understanding and application of activity and occupation.

Features:

The newly titled Client-Activity Intervention Plan that synthesizes the activity analysis into client application. Objectives at the beginning of each unit. Discussion questions and examples of daily life occupations. A Web site including 5 forms where students and practitioners can download and print information for class assignments and clinical settings.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781556426766
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/17/2005
Edition description:	Fifth
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Gayle I. Hersch, PhD, OTR, is an Associate Professor with the School of Occupational Therapy at Texas Woman’s University. Her responsibilities are in the areas of teaching and research with master’s and doctoral students. Her practice area is in gerontology with emphasis on Alzheimer’s disease, stroke, caregiving, and home safety. Prior to joining the faculty at Texas Woman’s University, she was a faculty member of the Department of Occupational Therapy, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis (IUPUI)*, Indianapolis, IN.    

Nancy K. Lamport, MS, OTR is an Associate Professor Emerita in the Department of Occupational Therapy, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, IUPUI*, Indianapolis, IN. Prior to her retirement, her teaching responsibilities included fundamentals of occupational therapy (activity analysis), activities of daily living, leisure activities, and media. Her interests now include travel, community volunteering, and Medieval English tiles.     

Margaret S. Coffey, MA, COTA, ROH is the Activities Coordinator of Providence House, an assisted-living facility for memory impaired adults in South Bend, IN. She is a contributing writer for Spin-Off magazine and teaches occupational therapy concepts in hand spinning and weaving activities to the well population, She is a former lecturer in the Department of Occupational Therapy, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, IUPUI*, Indianapolis, IN.

(*Formerly known as the Occupational Therapy Program, School of Allied Health Sciences, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana.)

Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Preface

Module I: Activity: The Foundation of Occupation
Unit 1: The Impact of Occupation on our Human Experience
Unit 2: Activity Analysis: The Learning Process

Module II: The Dimensions of Activity
Unit 3: Activity Awareness and Action Identification
Form 1: Activity Awareness Example: Making a Telephone Call
Form 2: Action Identification Example: Making a Telephone Call
Unit 4: Activity Analysis for Expected Performance
Form 3. Activity Analysis for Expected Performance: Making a Telephone Call

Module III: Therapeutic Utilization of Activity
Unit 5: Activity Gradation and Adaptation
Unit 6: Activity Analysis for Therapeutic Intervention
Form 4. Activity Analysis for Therapeutic Intervention: Making a Telephone Call
Unit 7: The Client-Activity Intervention Plan
Form 5. Client-Activity Intervention Plan: Making a Telephone Call

Module IV: The Versatility of Activity
Unit 8: A Review of the Process
Form 1. Activity Awareness Form: Making Cookies From a Recipe
Form 2. Action Identification Form: Making Cookies From a Recipe
Form 3. Activity Analysis for Expected Performance: Making Cookies From a Recipe
Form 4. Activity Analysis for Therapeutic Intervention: Making Cookies From a Recipe
Form 5. Client-Activity Intervention Plan: Making Cookies From a Recipe
Unit 9: Utilizing Assistive Technology: The Forms Web Site

Epilogue

Suggested Readings Prior to 1996
Suggested Readings From 1996 to 2003

Appendix A: Position Papers of the American Occupational Therapy Association
Appendix B: Uniform Technology for Reporting Occupational Therapy Services, First Edition
Appendix C: Blank Student Worksheets

Index

Editorial Reviews

Because this book is clearly written and specifically spells out the components of an activity analysis, I believe it to be a very useful addition to the occupational therapy literature and well worth the listed price. The fact that the authors have chosen to link the language of their templates to the Occupational Therapy Practice Framework enhances its usefulness for current practice.”

—Jeffrey M. Lederer, PhD, OTR/L, Spalding University Occupational Therapy in Healthcare

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