- Interactive approach allows readers to use their own personal occupational experience as a basis for understanding the use of occupation as a therapy
- Defines the seven phases of the design proce...
- Interactive approach allows readers to use their own personal occupational experience as a basis for understanding the use of occupation as a therapy
- Defines the seven phases of the design process: motivation, investigation, definition, ideation, idea selection, implementation, and evaluation
- Provides opportunities for students to practice these seven steps through "Power Builder" exercises that enhance their creative thinking and problem-solving skills, thus strengthening their ability to provide therapeutically and create significant interventions
- Fully explores the productive, pleasurable, and restorative dimensions of the occupational experience
- Examines how to design intact interventions -- the concept of working in the natural settings of clients -- by understanding the temporal, spatial, and sociocultural context of the occupational experience
- Emphasizes the design of highly accurate interventions for therapists to implement precise services with goals that are collaborative and evidence based relative to the client’s personal skills, knowledge, and experiences
- The summary chapter, "You Are What You Do," challenges readers to think about what kind of occupational therapist they want to be
