Today, in my human occupation class, I spent a solid hour discussing occupational performance as it relates to role competence. The theory, as written in Christiansen and Baum's, "Enabling Function and Well-being", is that humans engage in occupation in order to be competent at their roles. And that role competence is a fundamental drive of healthy humans. The point of the lecture is to help students begin to gather some understanding of the necessity, complexity and depth of enabling occupation in their future clients.
At the completion of class, a student held up a poster that was requesting volunteers or announcing a presentation or something. The research and poster were about UE Muscle Strength. I asked the students if they were confused by this dichotomy that we had just had a class about human occupation and why OT should not be practiced like upper-extremity PT and then to be doing research on UE function. One student responded that it was confusing and the other student seemed confused. And frankly, I'm confused!! It seems like some OT's see UE function as our trademark practice pattern while other OT's see occupation as our trademark. I am confused by this situation, can anyone help?????? Thanks, Ron *********��*********** Unsubscribe? Send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message's *body*, put the following text: unsubscribe OTlist ** List messages are archived at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] *********��***********
