Occupational Interruption And Personal Identity

The Person Environment Occupation (PEO) model was built on social science theory, earlier occupational therapy models, and the disability movement that was influenced by its civil rights movement (Boyt Schell, Gillen, & Scaffa, 2012, p. 495). The PEO model was developed to examine its processes and how these combine to shape occupational performance (Maclean, Carin-Levy, Hunter, Malcomson, & Locke, 2012, p. 556). It helps facilitate a shift from an emphasis on performance components to an emphasis on occupation (Law et al., 1996, p. 21). A disruption in any of person, environment, or occupation will interfere with their performance (Boyt Schell et al., 2012, p. 495).

The Model of Human Occupation (MOHO was created by Gary Kielhofner in the 1980s. The model has been revised and refined since then, by other occupational therapists. This model is focused on a person’s occupations and helps to explain how disability and related problems can come about. The model is thought to be client-centered, based on evidence, and holistic by concentrating on the person as a whole. The model emphasizes both the client’s mind and body in addition to putting further emphasis on occupational performance, rather than emphasizing the performance components. Likewise, the environment plays a role in the model and can assist in opportunities of better occupational performance. The Model of Human Occupation interprets people as being a system. The collaboration of the human as a system, the task, and the environment produces the outcome of occupational behavior. This is expressed according to the dynamic systems theory. Occupational performance is dynamic because it effects the health, well-being, improvement, and modification of the system. According to the Model of Human Occupation, the human system is continually fluctuating and restructuring itself through engagement of the surroundings.

At the age of 53, as a member of the growing older population, there has been many occupational changes throughout my life. An individual never realizes how a passage from one state, stage, subject, or place to another change the body and mind. Every day is a battle mentally and physically to complete the tasks of the day. Exercise has been a powerful reliever of pain for the body and soul. People face many diverse challenges and changes across the span of a life and occupational therapy can take actions to improve a situation, especially with medical disorders.

What intrigues me most in the field of Occupational Therapy is that I could make a positive impact in the lives of others. An occupational therapist can help a patient revitalize their physical, cognitive, or emotional disabilities, and develop or restore its functionality through continuous practice and effort. There is nothing more fulfilling for me than to see an individual achieving the greatest possible independence. This train of thought arose when I observed an occupational therapist working with my mother to return her arm to feeling normal again after her accident.

MOHO is an occupation-focused model which “provide an overarching context of occupation that emphasizes the occupational therapists unique perspective on a client’s ability to engage in activities and participate in life” and “attempt to explain the relationship of occupation, person and environment” (Cole & Tufano, 2008, p. 61). MOHO focus on the concept of volition, habituation and performance capacity is the key to understanding human occupation (Kielhofner, 2002). The volition includes person’s values, which an individual finds meaningful to do and important, and interests and personal causation which refers to a sense of competence and effectiveness. The habituation is the given context of physical, temporal and social which influence an individual to develop a certain behavioral pattern or make new actions and decisions. And Performance capacity is a mental and physical attribution and life experiences. As these three factors that influencing an individual to engage in the occupation, MOHO aims to explain how disability and illness hinder occupational performance and it focuses on supporting the individuals to successfully perform the occupation (Kielhofner,

A second reason for a client to need occupational therapy is due to an illness. Severe illnesses like cancer leaves the client with little energy for leisure, social, or work-related tasks after just doing some daily activities. Occupational therapy practitioners are experts with the knowledge of how to modify activities and environments to allow individuals to do the activities they want and need to do to maintain quality of life. The role of occupational therapy is, “to facilitate and enable an individual patient to achieve maximum functional performance, both physically and psychologically, in everyday living skills regardless of his or her life expectancy” (Newman, “The Role of Occupational Therapy in Oncology.”)

The goals of Occupational therapy are promoting physical, mental health and well-being of individuals with disability (ref). Occupational therapists have a strong supporting role in the mental health sector, by using daily activities to help individual mental disabilities transition from institution to community living ( Burson, Fette, Orentlicher, Precin, Roush & Kannenberg, 2017). However, as medical model became the primary focus in healthcare, Occupational therapists had turn away working in the mental health sectors (ref). With the increase need of mental health care providers, the AOTA has been advocating Occupational Therapists to return to the root of psychiatry (Ikiugu, Nissen, Bellar, Maassen, & Peursem, 2017). Recommending future

The Model of Human Occupation (MOHO) is a breakdown of how a person engages in their daily activities from their disability or illness. It gives an occupational therapist a guide to understand and specify the client’s inadequacy of engagement. “The clients thinking, feeling, and doing are central to therapy and the model takes into account both mind and body. In MOHO the environment can demand and offer opportunities for occupational performance (Ramafikeng, 2009).” This model helps the therapist to find reasoning through their client`s behaviors and be able to promote health and recovery in their daily occupations. By looking into the client`s volition, habituation, and performance capacity this specifies the therapist of their client`s abilities and incapability’s they have while engaging in an occupation. Then analyzing what environmental contexts ables or disables the client`s behavior.

When people are unable to participate in the daily activities of their occupation, Brown and Hollis (2013) reported that people can experience a brief pause or disruption in their normal activities, a deprived state of activity that can severely restrict social, cultural, or personal engagements, or create an imbalance when a person becomes “unoccupied, under occupied, or over occupied” (p.1246). Eventually, any of these lapses in functioning can create or intensify other physical or mental issues. Santrock (2012) expressed that occupational therapists “help people regain, develop, and build skills that are important for independent functioning, health, well-being, security, and happiness” (p.45). Perhaps occupational therapy on the whole can be described as utilizing multiple techniques to help different people with one or several distinct impairments that hinder them at various times in their life. Kronenberg and Pollard (2006) stated that “occupational therapy is said to be based

There are many different conceptual models available to occupational therapists today. These include the Canadian model of occupational performance and engagement (CMOP-E), the Model of Human Occupation (MOHO), Person-enviornment-occupation model (PEO), the Kawa model. These are very important to the profession and in guiding the occupational therapy process. The focus of this essay will mainly be on the MOHO.

The debilitating disease of multiple sclerosis impacts the daily lives and independence of the people it afflicts. The condition affects muscle function, cognitive abilities, and causes physical and mental fatigue (Yu & Mathiowetz, 2014). As the disease progresses, these symptoms worsen and loss of independence emerges. As a counteractive intervention to slow this loss of autonomy, occupational therapy is a helpful tool. In this literature review the question that is addressed is what are effective interventions occupational therapists use for people with multiple sclerosis.

This assignment focuses on the meaning of occupation to people with disability. Through interviewing people who experience fibromyalgia, the occupational story and therapeutic value of meaningful occupation can be identified. Observation of activity analysis of a person engaged in dish washing was conducted using Crepeau, Boyt Schell, Gillen, & Scaffa’s (2014) template. Next, grading and adapting techniques will be suggested to overcome her disability. In addition, enablers and barriers of the occupational engagement and performance of the person have been analysed by applying CMOP-E and the role of occupational therapists to the diagnostic group were addressed. Using Gibbs model, review and reflection will be utilized to help

Exploration of Bob's Case through MOHO Concerning the popularity of conceptual models, a study found that the Model of Human Occupation (MOHO) was the most frequent model (80.7%) that the nationwide therapists used to occupational therapy practice (Lee et al, 2008), which demonstrated the importance and uniqueness of MOHO. In Bob's case, he is diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis that hinders his engagement in daily life activities. Therefore, the therapist might use MOHO in working with Bob in order to use the concepts to plan holistic and high-quality treatment and intervene the case. As MOHO serves as a client-centred model, the therapists need to understand the client fully and consider the client as the central of therapy. Then, the

Edward Everett Hale once stated, “I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do.” I feel that this statement is everything an occupational therapist is about. I cannot do everything, but I can and will do something to help individuals regain their lives back. I have seen how impactful occupational therapy is by watching the drastic changes it has on lives. The TTUHSC Master of Occupational Therapy program has every quality needed to gain knowledge of this field to help me reach my dreams of helping others.

Everybody has an identity, it makes them individual and unique, and it defines who you are as a person. This project about my identity showed me what makes me unique. I would have never known how much my friends mean to me or how my identities connect with each other. I have three identities that make me who I am, cultural, personal, and social. A specific quality that covers my cultural identity is being Czechoslovakian. Both sides of my family have at least a part of Czech in them. My great-grandparents are from Czech Republic and my grandpa was the first generation in America, he was born in Ohio. This is very important because I have always identified as Czech and it is a big part of me, as I am so interested in ancestry. For my personal identity, the biggest part is my personality, being loud and outgoing, has always been important to me. The reason being, it is how people view me. A lot of people know me as the loud person or the person who talks a lot. That is meaningful to me considering I like people to view me in a certain way The last identity, social, is one of the most important to me because it involves my friends, and through this project, I learned how vital they really are to my social identity. I realized that I have a good amount of friends in this project. It is nice to have people as a support system and to relate with. These qualities show that I value being loud and outgoing. It also says that I value my family and they are a big part of life. The last one, social, ties in with the first one because it shows I am outgoing and friendly.