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Order and Disorder in Medicine and Occupational Therapy
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The meaning of these concepts in medicine and in occupational therapy is compared to clarify the differences in orientation between the two disciplines and the development of a taxonomy of levels of performance in occupation is suggested.Abstract:
Professional practice is based on knowledge of order, disorder, and change. The meaning of these concepts in medicine and in occupational therapy is compared to clarify the differences in orientation between the two disciplines. The negative influence of the biomedical model on occupational therapy theory and practice is illustrated. The development of a taxonomy of levels of performance in occupation to serve as a basis for referral to occupational therapy and for theory building is suggested.read more
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Defining Lives: Occupation as Identity: An Essay on Competence, Coherence, and the Creation of Meaning
TL;DR: It is asserted that competence in the performance of tasks and occupations contributes to identity-shaping and that the realization of an acceptable identity contributes to coherence and well-being.
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The Role Checklist: Development and Empirical Assessment of Reliability
TL;DR: The Role Checklist as discussed by the authors is a two-part written inventory designed to identify past, present, and future roles and the degree to which they will be used in the future.
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Beyond performance: being in place as a component of occupational therapy.
TL;DR: The time-space rhythms of taken-for-granted behavior, the significance of the surveillance zone, and the way in which the environment may come to be a component of the self are identified as themes within being in place that have significant implications for enhancing occupational therapy practice.
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Bottom-up or top-down evaluation: is one better than the other?
TL;DR: Clients’ needs may be better served by a therapist determining which evaluation approach would be most appropriate to the situation through the use of a screening tool.
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Therapeutic strategies used by occupational therapists in self-care training: a qualitative study.
Susanne Guidetti,Kerstin Tham +1 more
TL;DR: One conclusion from this study is that occupational therapists could, through understanding the individual's unique situation, vary their strategies and adapt themselves, like a chameleon, to meeting clients' experiences and needs during self-care training.
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Concepts of occupational therapy
TL;DR: Thematic and models base: why study models major philosophies influencing OT models of health which influence OT practice understanding conceptual and practice models models being discarded in OT models currently being used models being explored and developed.
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The need for an ethnomedical science.
TL;DR: In focusing on fundamental properties of disease in man, ethnomedicine can also help to clarify the effects and meanings of disease and thereby make its control more rational.
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Causation in Medicine: The Disease Entity Model
TL;DR: This article argued that the causal relation is not definable in terms of the condition relation, but in general for conditions of an occurrence to be among its causes they must answer instrumental interests in a certain way, and there are further criteria for distinguishing 'the' cause of a disease (i.e., its etiological agent) from other causal factors, which are based upon instrumental interests peculiar to medicine.
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Concepts of Disease: Logical Features and Social Implications
TL;DR: Developments in contemporary society have brought into focus the organization and delivery of health services and challenged traditional medical orientations and goals.
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I. Present Concepts of the Meaning and Limitations of Medical Diagnosis
Ralph L. Engle,B. J. Davis +1 more
TL;DR: Questions are attempted here to explore the role computers might some day play as aids to diagnosis so that both physicians and electronic engineers may have a common background for their work.