Main description:

Adaptation, as an internal human process, is an often-overlooked construct in occupational therapy education, research, and practice. Adaptation Through Occupation: Multidimensional Perspectives aims to change that by presenting different perspectives that challenge the reader's understanding of occupational adaptation. As the first of its kind text to explore, analyze, and present a comprehensive and multidimensional approach to understanding occupational adaptation, the collection of writings in this text add to the range of knowledge available in occupational therapy.

Adaptation Through Occupation: Multidimensional Perspectives by Drs. Lenin Grajo and Angela Boisselle provides in-depth perspectives of occupation and adaptation that can be used to teach courses on foundational and theoretical perspectives in occupational therapy, occupational science undergraduate and graduate programs, and as a critical module in teaching Neuroscience to occupational therapy students. This text also aims to facilitate new bodies of research to define and apply the concept of adaptation in relation to occupational performance and participation.

Some perspectives covered inside include:

Historical and theoretical perspectives on occupation and adaptation
Neural mechanisms of occupational adaptation
Occupational science perspectives and international and lived-experience perspectives

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Adaptation Through Occupation: Multidimensional Perspectives opens the gates for new ways of understanding occupational adaptation and adds necessary information to the existing knowledge in the occupational therapy profession.

Contents:

Dedication

Acknowledgments

About the Editors

Contributing Authors

Foreword by Sally W. Schultz, PhD, OT, LPC-S

Introduction

Section I Conceptual Evolution of Occupational Adaptation

Overview

Angela K. Boisselle, PhD, OTR, ATP
Lenin C. Grajo, PhD, EdM, OTR/L

Chapter 1 Defining the Construct of Occupational Adaptation

Lenin C. Grajo, PhD, EdM, OTR/L
Angela K. Boisselle, PhD, OTR, ATP
Elaina DaLomba, PhD, MSW, OTR/L

Chapter 2 Adaptation as a Measure of Occupational Participation

Lorrie George-Paschal, PhD, OTR/L, ATP
Lenin C. Grajo, PhD, EdM, OTR/L

Section II Neuroscience Perspectives on Occupational Adaptation

Overview

Angela K. Boisselle, PhD, OTR, ATP
Lenin C. Grajo, PhD, EdM, OTR/L

Chapter 3 Neural Basis of Adaptation: Neuroplasticity and Movement Sciences
Dawn M. Nilsen, EdD, OTR/L, FAOTA
Angela K. Boisselle, PhD, OTR, ATP

Chapter 4 Neural Basis of Adaptation: Motivation, Intention, Resilience, and Goal-Directed Behaviors

Katherine Dimitropoulou, PhD, OTR
Mary Frances Baxter, PhD, OT, FAOTA

Section III Occupational Adaptation in Occupational Therapy Theories and Models

Overview

Lenin C. Grajo, PhD, EdM, OTR/L
Angela K. Boisselle, PhD, OTR, ATP

Chapter 5 Occupational Adaptation as a Normative and Intervention Process: New Perspectives on Schkade and Schultz's Professional Legacy

Lenin C. Grajo, PhD, EdM, OTR/L

Chapter 6 Formation of Identity and Occupational Competence: Occupational Adaptation in the Model of Human Occupation

Patricia Bowyer, EdD, MS, OTR, FAOTA

Chapter 7 Adaptation From a Sensory Processing Perspective

Lauren Little, PhD, OTR/L
Winifred Dunn, PhD, OTR, FAOTA

Chapter 8 Adaptation as a Transaction With the Environment: Perspectives From the Ecology of Human Performance Model

Evan E. Dean, PhD, OTR
Anna Wallisch, PhD, OTR/L
Winifred Dunn, PhD, OTR, FAOTA

Section IV Occupational Adaptation in Occupational Science

Overview

Lenin C. Grajo, PhD, EdM, OTR/L
Angela K. Boisselle, PhD, OTR, ATP

Chapter 9 An Occupational Science Perspective on Occupation, Adaptation, and Participation

Rebecca M. Aldrich, PhD, OTR/L
Kendra Heatwole Shank, PhD, OTR/L

Chapter 10 The Lived Experience of Occupational Adaptation: Adaptation in the Wake of Adversity, Life Transitions, and Change

Mandy Stanley, PhD

Financial Disclosures

Index