MOHO Flashcards
When was MOHO first introduced?
1980s, first book in 1985.
Why learn about MOHO?
helps explain the relationship between the P-E-O and provides an evidence base for occupation focused practice.
What are the three key factors?
- Personal factors
- Environmental factors
- Doing and its consequences
What comes under personal factors?
Volition, Habituation and performance capacity.
What is volition?
The process by which persons are motivated toward and chose what they do
What is habituation?
the process whereby doing is organised into patterns and routines
What is performance capacity?
The underlying objective mental and physical abilities and te lived experiences that shapes performance
What are the three types of thought patterns of volition?
Interests, values and personal causation
What is the volition process?
Volition thoughts and feelings are embedded in a cycle of:
- anticipating possibilities for doing
- choosing what to do
- experiencing what one is doing
- interpreting the experience subsequently
What are the two types of habituation?
Habits and roles
What are habits?
How people organise their routines into patterns of behaviour. Reflected in routine ways of performing, typical use of time and styles of performance
What is the purpose of roles?
They shape ones attitudes and actions, and also influence a persons sense of identity/ who they are,
What are the types of environments?
- Physical environment
- Social environment
- Occupational forms (tasks)
What is occupational forms?
the typical way a particular occupation is done
What is an occupation setting?
Unique configurations of spaces, objects, occupational forms and social groups that constitute a meaningful contect for performance
What is the influence of the environment?
- It provides opportunities and resources for choosing and doing
- Creates conditions that make demands and place constraints on choosing and doing
What are the three levels/dimensions of doing?
- occupational participation (participating in an occupation that has personal and social meaning in everyday life)
- occupational performance (doing a specific occupational form)
- occupational skill (goal directed, observable actions that a person uses while performing)
What are the three types of skills?
Motor skills: actions of moving self or objects
Process skills: logically sequencing actions over time, selecting and using appropriate materials and adapting performance when encountering problems
Communication and interaction skills: actions to convey intentions and needs, and to coordinate social interaction
What is occupational adaption?
the construction of a positive occupational identity and competence in ones occupations in ones environments over time.
What is occupational identity?
A persons sense of who they are and wish to become as an occupational being, generated from their history of occupational participation
What is occupational competence?
The degree to which a person sustains a pattern f occupational participation consistent with their occupational identity
