Occupational Adaptation in Practice: Concepts and Cases
Janette Schkade,
PhD, OTR, FAOTA
;
Melissa McClung,
OTR
Product Description
Who says theory can’t be fun, practical, and understandable? Occupational Adaptation in Practice: Concepts and Cases is a user-friendly text that clearly describes the theory of occupational adaptation.
This new text describes one approach to occupation-based, client-centered practice. The purpose of this guide is to make occupational adaptation easily understood and applied. This exceptional guide leads the reader through the flow and understanding of this theory. Practical examples help demonstrate how theory can be implemented in practice. It breaks the components of the theory into smaller, more manageable units. Included in the text are cases in which practitioners have used occupational adaptation in various practice settings.
Features:
- Conversational style promotes reader understanding of the ideas in occupational adaptation.
- “Try It On” feature gives the reader an opportunity to apply the concepts to a personal everyday life situation.
- The guide provides the practitioner with suggestions about how to apply occupational adaptation to practice.
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Contents
- Dedication
About the Authors
Preface
Before You Begin
- Chapter One. What is Occupational Adaptation?
- Concept: Overview of occupational adaptation theory
Case: Jill
- Chapter Two. How Do the Person and Environment Relate?
- Concepts: Desire for mastery, demand for mastery, and press for mastery
Case: The Afghan Maker
Try it On
- Chapter Three. How Do Occupational Role Expectations Fit In?
- Concepts: Occupational challenge, internal and external expectations, person and
occupational environment
Case: The Water Skier
Try it On
- Chapter Four. How Does the Person Begin to Produce the Response?
- Concept: The adaptive response generation sub-process (adaptive response mechanism)
Case: The Preacher
Case: The Researcher
Case: The Chess Player
Try it On
- Chapter Five. What's the Plan to Carry Out the Response?
- Concept: The adaptive response generation sub-process (adaptation gestalt)
Case: The Husband Caregiver
Try it On
- Chapter Six. What's Right or Wrong With This Picture?
- Concept: The adaptive response evaluation sub-process (relative mastery)
Case: The Florist
Try it On
- Chapter Seven. How Has the Person Changed or Adapted?
- Concept: The adaptive response integration sub-process
Case: The Elder Homemaker
Try it On
- Chapter Eight. How Does the Environment Respond?
- Concepts: Assessment by the occupational environment and incorporation by the
occupational environment
Try it On
- Chapter Nine. What Does the Therapist Do?
- Case: The Pianist
Case: The Woodworker
- Chapter Ten. How Do You Describe Occupational Adaptation to Others?
- Index
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Reviews
"The cases are great examples of the concepts being put into practice."
— Debra Stewart, MSc, BSc. OT(C), McMaster University Institute Applied Health Sciences, Ontario, Canada
"A useful guide to understanding occupational adaptation and how it can be applied in practice."
— Charles Christiansen, EdD., OTR, OT(C), FAOTA, Dean and George T. Bryan, Distinguished Professor, The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston School of Allied Health Sciences, Galveston, Texas
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About the Authors
Janette Schkade PhD, OTR, FAOTA
Janette Schkade, after graduating with a PhD in psychology, practiced a psychologist in a state school for the mentally challenged, working with clients who had multiple physical as well as mental disabilities. It was in this environment that she learned about occupational therapy and what it could do for this population. She then obtained her education in occupational therapy from Texas Woman’s University. She is a co-author of the Occupational Adaptation Theoretical Framework. She has presented at national and regional conferences on this framework, both as theory and as a vehicle to guide practice. She is the author or co-author of numerous publications regarding occupational adaption, both in scholarly journals and book chapters.
Melissa McClung OTR
Melissa McClung has been practicing with the occupational adaption theoretical perspective for 10 years. She has had the opportunity to use the theory in practice with patients, in redesigning existing occupational therapy programs, and in student programs in clinic settings-most currently in classroom curriculum design/implementation as a faculty member at Texas Woman’s University, Denton. She has presented her approach to occupational adaptation at national and regional conferences. Prior to becoming an occupational therapist, she practiced as a music therapist for 8 years.
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