Perspectives on Human Occupation: Theories Underlying
Practice
Jim Hinojosa, Paula Kramer, Charlotte Brasic Royeen
2nd Edition
,Table of Contents
Chapter 01 The Complexity of Occupation 1
Chapter 02 The Core Concept of Occupation 6
Chapter 03 Occupational Science 9
Chapter 04 Occupation as the Goal 15
Chapter 05 The Model of Human Occupation 20
Chapter 06 The Person-Environment-Occupation Model 25
Chapter 07 Person-Environment-Occupation-Performance Model 28
Chapter 08 Cognitive Orientation to daily Occupational Performance Approach 32
Chapter 09 The Ecological Model of Occupation 36
Chapter 10 Occupational Therapy Intervention Process Model 40
Chapter 11 Occupational Adaptation 43
Chapter 12 Synthesis of the Child, Occupational Performance, and Environment – In Time
Model 47
Chapter 13 Ethical Concerns Regarding Human Occupation 51
Chapter 14 Reaffirming the Value of Varying Perspectives of Occupation 54
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Chapter 1: The Complexity of Occupation
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Which of the following concepts was the main focus of early communications amongst the
founders of the occupational therapy profession?
A. Leisure occupation
B. Occupation work
C. Primary modality
D. Exploratory learning
ANS: B
2. The authors state, “Occupation is the defining concept of occupational therapy.” From the
choices below, which best defines occupation as viewed by the founders and early scholars
of the profession?
A. Activities related to paid work
B. Leisure activities of the upper class
C. Daily life tasks and recreation
D. Activities for the purpose of diversion
ANS: C
3. What are the three reasons for the use of occupation in treatment identified by Dr. William
Rush Dunton, Jr.?
A. Divert the patient’s attention from disturbing thoughts, provide a potential hobby
that may prevent further mental anguish, and provide a potential means for future
livelihood
B. Divert the patient’s attention from lost function, provide a safe and nurturing
environment for purposeful activity, and provide a potential means for future
livelihood
C. Encourage a patient’s analysis of the basis for disturbing thoughts, provide a
potential hobby that may prevent further mental anguish, and provide patient
education
D. Encourage a patient’s analysis of the basis for disturbing thoughts, provide a
nurturing environment for purposeful and functional activity, and provide patient
education
ANS: A
4. Adolf Meyer and Eleanor Clarke Slagle supported a mental health treatment approach
believed to improve functioning that has been limited by the development of faulty habits
over time. What is the specific name of this treatment approach?
A. Occupational therapy
B. Work therapy
C. Habit training
D. Productivity training
ANS: C
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5. The onset of which of the following events caused occupational therapy to experience a shift
from a focus on occupation to more physical and medically based intervention approaches
to practice?
A. World War I
B. World War II
C. The Great Depression
D. The Balanced Budget Act
ANS: B
6. During this period what were the preferred terms that were used in the professional literature
instead of occupation?
A. Work and functional performance
B. Activity and daily living tasks
C. Work and daily living tasks
D. Activity and functional performance
ANS: D
7. The profession’s use of “occupation” following the above period began again during the
early 1960s. During her 1962 Eleanor Clarke Slagle lecture, Mary Reilly predicted this shift
as she spoke of the impact of occupational behavior. Which model was developed from this
concept of occupational behavior?
A. Model of Human Occupation
B. Person-Environment-Occupation
C. Biomechanical Model
D. Model of Creative Activity
ANS: A
8. The thought that restoring function through the use of participation in specific tasks that are
from the patient’s everyday life is the basis for which of the following?
A. Physical rehabilitation
B. Moral treatment
C. Activity approach
D. Authentic occupational therapy
ANS: B
9. What term did Yerxa use in the mid-1960s to describe a scenario of an occupational
therapist using light housework as an intervention with someone who typically cleaned his
or her own home as a means for improving muscle strength, overall stamina, and range of
motion?
A. Physical rehabilitation
B. Moral treatment
C. Activity approach
D. Authentic occupational therapy
ANS: D
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