MOHO Flashcards
Volition
Motivation for occupation, need to act. Generated and sustained from experience. Subcategories: values, interests, personal causation.
Values
What one finds important and meaningful to do. Personal convictions and sense of obligation.
Interests
What one enjoys doing or finds satisfaction in doing.
Personal Causation
One’s sense of self-efficacy or awareness of abilities/performance, mental, physical etc.
Habituation
Recurring patterns & daily routines,
almost automatic, acquired through
socialization. Subcategories: roles and habits
Internalized Roles
A “cultural script” for responsibilities and obligations associated with a social identity. A person usually has many and can go through a rhythm of changing roles in their everyday life. Roles become internalized, a way of behaving, in response to social expectations
Habits
Acquired tendencies to respond and perform in certain
consistent ways in familiar environments. Behaviour or activities that have been performed so many times they become automatic.
Performance Capacity
- Objective, observable measures of physical or mental performance components.
- Subjective “the lived body” experience. How someone feels whilst engaging in activity/occupation or how they experience performance, illness or disability.
Environment - Physical
Spaces or objects that pertain to certain contexts and influence occupation
Environment - Social
Tasks that are available, expected, and/or required of
people in a given context; and social groups that pertain to certain contexts and can influence occupation
Environmental Impact
Refers to influence of the physical and/or social
environment on occupation
Opportunity – e.g., occupation is available
Support – e.g., building is accessible
Demand – e.g., high standards for performance
Constraint – e.g., institutional policy limits choice
Impact may be enabling or disabling
Occupational Participation
Engaging in work, play, ADLs that are part of a person’s sociocultural context and desired or necessary for well-being
Occupational Performance
AKA occupational form, doing discrete activity or task (within occupational participation)
Occupational Skills
Observable, goal-directed action: motor, process, communication/interaction
Occupational Adaptation
Focus area of OT - the process of achieving a positive occupational identity through demonstrating occupational competence over time.