OT engages clients in meaningful, purposeful, goal directed and individualized occupations that aim to
- improve or maintain occupational performance
- promote quality of life
- influence health
Why?
Occupation is necessary for life
Creates meaning in life
Ultimately influences health and well being
Creative ability =
Meaningful life is found in the ability to express, to be and to become your inner self
Key concepts
- centred on creativity in everyday life
- looks at the relationship between volition, motivation and action which is essential to respond to creativity
- developmental spiral
Volition
Initiates/directs behaviour towards a goal
The will to be and to direct one’s own life
Motivation
The want need or desire to do something
Can be intrinsic or extrinsic
Action
The visible output in behaviour evidenced in participation in activity
Creation of a tangible or intangible product
Level of volition
Represents changes in focus at the different levels of occupational development
Levels of action
- sequential differences in the quality of doing
- characteristics of the nature of engagement which influences occupational performance
What is VdTMoCA for
Framework to assess and treat a clients current occupational performance starting from the level/point where skills have been attained in:
- personal management/survival skills
- social ability/participation
- work/productivity/eductation
- leisure/play
Provides guidelines for
- identifying treatment priorities
- determining expectations for performance
- proposing principles that guide treatment
- grading guidelines to keep pace with a clients improvement or regression
Creative ability does not represent the whole occupational therapy intervention for a client
- it provides a stratified guide to increase the level of performance
- baseline from which all other problems can be tackled
- beings the specific treatment to the level of the client
