Model of Human Occupation (MOHO)

Question 1

What is the focus of the MOHO model?

Answer 1

• How are people motivated towards and choose the things that fill their lives?
• How do people learn and sustain the patterns of doing that makes up everyday life?
• How are people able to engage in such a wide range of physical, cognitive, and social actions?
• seeks to explain how occupation is motivated, patterned and performed*

Question 2

Describe how MOHO analyses motivation for occupation

Answer 2

1) What you feel you can and can not do well (personal causation)
2) What you consider important to do (values)
3) What you enjoy doing (interests)

Question 3

What is personal causation?

Answer 3

Thoughts and feelings about:

• How effective we feel about capacities and efforts in life
• Aware of potential abilities
• Whether we feel we can bring about what we want

Question 4

How are values focused on in MOHO?

Answer 4

Belief and commitments which influence:

• What is worth doing
• How to perform it
• What to commit to

Question 5

How are interests focused on in MOHO?

Answer 5

• Generated by experiences of pleasure & satisfaction
• Depends on opportunities to engage
• Level of interest is based on anticipation of positive experience.

Question 6

What are patterns of occupation?

Answer 6

Process by which occupation is organised into patterns or routines

Question 7

Describe habits of the MOHO

Answer 7

• Ways of doing things that we have internalised through repeated performance.
• Organised & enable us to perform activities within our environment

Question 8

Describe the link between roles and disability

Answer 8

• Disabilities involves taking on new roles which can take substantial time and energy.
• Disability may impact person’s ability to perform roles.

Question 9

What are skills for occupation mentioned in the MOHO?

Answer 9

Objective:
-Physical and mental abilities underly ability to do
-Use of existing models of practice
Subjective:
-Recovery philosophy

Question 10

Describe how the MOHO analyses the environment

Answer 10

• Choices for doing, routine patterns of behaviour, and performance.
• Influence of:
• Culture
• Opportunities and resources for choosing and doing
• Demands and constraints
• Spaces and objects
• Impact of physical and social environments