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Paradise Lost!… Paradise Regained? Putting the Promise of Occupational Therapy into Practice
Author(s) -
Lyons Mike
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
australian occupational therapy journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.595
H-Index - 44
eISSN - 1440-1630
pISSN - 0045-0766
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1630.1985.tb01491.x
Subject(s) - paradise , occupational therapy , mandate , meaning (existential) , confusion , occupational science , bridge (graph theory) , psychology , psychotherapist , epistemology , aesthetics , sociology , medicine , psychoanalysis , political science , art , philosophy , law , surgery , psychiatry , art history
Occupational therapy is beset by confusion over its professional mandate. Agreement has not been reached on the unique need of man which it serves; and insufficient progress has been made in linking everyday practice with an underlying theoretical framework. The Model of Human Occupation, based in the Occupational Behaviour theoretical tradition, is proposed as a suitable tool to bridge the theory‐practice gap. Examples are discussed of the fresh meaning it brings to occupational therapy's wholistic orientation to health care.