Model of Human Occupation

Model of Human Occupation

1. Person components

   • volition
     • the process by which people are motivated towards and choose what they do
     • personal causation
       • sense of capacity and effectiveness
     • values
       • refer to what one finds important and meaningful to do
     • interests
       • refer to what one finds enjoyable or satisfying to do
     • volitional processes
       • experience
         • refers to the immediate thoughts and feelings that emerge in the midst of and in response to performance
         • interpretation
           • recalling and reflecting on performance 
           • anticipation
             • process of noticing and reacting to potentials or expectations 
             • activity and occupational choices
               • activity choices- short term deliberate decisions to enter or exit occupations  occupational choices- commitments to enter into a course of action to sustain regular performance
   • habituation
     • internalized readiness to exhibit consistent patterns of behaviour guided by our habits and roles and fitted to the characteristics of routine temporal, physical and social environments.
     • habits
       • acquired tendencies to respond and perform in certain consistent ways in familiar environments or situations
     • internalized roles
       • incorporation of a socially and/or personally defined  status and a related cluster of attitudes and behaviours
   • performance capacity
     • the ability for doing things provided by the status of underlying objective physical and mental components and corresponding subjective experience
     • subjective
       • experienced or felt view from the inside 
     • objective
       • bodily and cognitive functions that enable performance -viewed from the outside and are observable

2. levels of doing

   • participation
     • engagement in work play or ADLs that are part of ones socio-cultural context and that are desired and or necessary to ones wellbeing
   • performance
     • doing of an occupational task 
   • skills
     • observable, goal directed actions  -> motor skills, process skills, communication and interaction skills

3. environmental impact

   • the opportunity to support, demand and constraint that the physical and social aspects of the environment have on a particular individual

4. occupational adaptation

   • having a positive occupational identity and the correspondent occupational performance through the dynamics of the constant interaction between personal factors and environmental impact 
   • occupational competence
     • the degree to which one sustains a successful pattern of occupational participation that reflects ones occupational identity 
   • occupational identity
     • a composite sense of who one is and who one wishes to become