week 1

Question 1

define occupational science

Answer 1

the study of humans as an occupational being including the need for and capacity to engage in and orchestrate daily occupations in the environment over the lifespan.

Question 2

occupational provides a source of

Answer 2

• Meaning
• Purpose and function
• Choice and control
• Integrating mind and body
• Balance and satisfaction

Question 3

occupational provides a means of

Answer 3

• Organising and structuring time
• Organising materials and space
• Contributing to general community
• Forms the basis for occupational development across the lifespan

Question 4

define occupation

Answer 4

a group of activities and tasks of everyday life, named, organised and given value and meaning by individuals and a culture. Occupation includes looking after ourselves (selfcare), enjoying life (leisure), and contributing to the social and economic fabric of their communities (productivity).

Question 5

5 characteristics of occupations

Answer 5

• Active engagement eg physical and mental
• Purposeful eg reason, goal or aim
• Meaningful eg unique to individual
• Contextualised eg preform occupation in a range of context.
• Human

Question 6

whats four ways of classifying occupations

Answer 6

purpose
meaning
time use
expereicne

Question 7

what does purpose involve

Answer 7

Productivity:
- Paid and unpaid work
- Caring eg for sick family member
- Domestic tasks eg house cleaning
- Work can give people sense of identity, contributing to common good, community connections, structure of the day.
Self care:
- Includes eating, dressing, bath etc considered to be physiologically necessary for survival and health
Leisure:
- Freedom of choice in participation and not having a particular goal other than enjoyment.

Question 8

what does meaning involve

Answer 8

Doing
Being- how people feel about what they are doing
Becoming- how we develop over life time
Belonging- belonging to groups or society

Question 9

what does Time use involve

Answer 9

Necessary time- personal survival activity eg eating and sleeping
Contracted time – paid work activitys or education activities
Committed time- domestic activity, voluntary work, purchasing activity Free time- recreation and leisure activities and social participation
Simultaneous occupations= doing more than one occupation at a time. Eg listening to music while driving.

Question 10

what does experience involve

Answer 10

• Pleasure: the experience of joy
• Productivity: the experience of accomplishment
• Restoration: the experience of relaxing

Question 11

toms leisure tasks

Answer 11

listening to radio
modifying, building, creating things
going to water front
tiqando got up to red belt but had to stop because it was too. hard to get to

Question 12

productivity

Answer 12

volunteer at science works

joined comity

Question 13

what Occupation Therapy professional knowledge

Answer 13

Foundational knowledge of occupational science

Question 14

whats an activity (part) vs occupation

Answer 14

It enables us to communicate about generalized categories of occupational experiences in a broad, accessible way.

An activity is not experienced by a specific person; is not observable as an occurrence; it is not located in a fully existent temporal, spatial, and sociocultural context.

Question 15

whats an activity vs occupation (part)

Answer 15

is a specific individual’s personally constructed, non-repeatable experience. It is a subjective event in perceived temporal, spatial, & socio-cultural conditions that are unique to that one-time occurrence.
• Interpretation of the meaning or emotional context of an occupation by anyone other than the person experiencing it is necessarily inexact.