"I hope my experience points to the fact that occupation is an amazingly complex and its application as a therapeutic medium requires knowledge, understanding, commitment to its power from both therapist and client." Ron, I want to thank you for expressing what is such an abstract, elusive concept for many people (including occupational therapists!) to grasp. ACOTE has tried to help by putting in a standard for educational program accreditation that reads: B2.2: The student will be able to differentiate among occupation, activity and purposeful activity. B2.3 The student will be able to understand the meaning and dynamics of occupation and purposeful activity including the interaction of performance areas, performance components and performance contexts. So that is a start, but we need more. I think the evolution of the discipline of Occupational Science will greatly help facilitate our understanding of just how complex occupation is. Unfortunately, many many MANY practicing therepists throw around the above terms interchangeably, and in my experience (relative to the sencond standard above) ignore performance contexts, focusing instead on performance components. Thank you for sharing your observations, and I would love to hear from others any "occupational analyisis" that you may wish to share. Terrianne Jones, OTR ******************** Unsubscribe by sending a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message's body, put the following text: unsubscribe OTlist ------ OTnow messages are archived at: http://www.mail-archive.com/list@otnow.com (and) http://www.mail-archive.com/otlist@otnow.com ********rC***********
