Professional Documents
Culture Documents
from Multicultural
Aspect
Karin Lilienberg,
exchange lecturer
Tallinn Health College,
Estonia
Riga 2006
Culture
State of manners, taste and
intellectual development at a time
or place
Customs
Achievements
Products
Outlook
Hygiene, nutrition, exercise
Culture
Leadership in the family
Attitudes towards work
Values, roles
Issue of language
Differing etnicity
Health beliefs and practices
Multicultural
Occupation
Daily performance of purposeful
activities
Includes activities that are playful,
restful, serious, and productive
Reflects the unique characteristics
(beliefs, preferences, experiences,
environments, the specific patterns of
behaviours) of the person
Have some degree of personal
meaning
Occupation
A group of activities that has
personal and sociocultural meaning,
is named within a culture and
supports participation in society.
Occupations can be categorized as
self-care, productivity and/ or leisure
Occupation
- Occupying or being occupied
- what occupies one, means of filling up
ones time, temporary or regular
employment, business, calling, pursuit
- refers to all purposeful human activity
Wilcock (1998)
Occupation
Generic term encompassing
all aspects of a persons
engagement in roles,
processes, activities or tasks
in the course of daily life
Hagedorn (1995)
Activity
The execution of a structured
series of tasks that
contributes to occupations
(http://www.enothe.hva.nl)
Purposeful activity
Meaning
Entire interpretive process in which an
individual engages
Purpose
Experience of wanting an outcome to
result from occupational performance
Task
1.
2.
Function
The underlying physical and
psychological components that
support occupational performance
The capacity to use occupational
performance components to carry
out a task, activity or occupation
(http://www.enothe.hva.nl)
course repertoire of
occupations
Maintenance
(self-care), productivity
(work, play), rest/ free time (leisure)
Activity
To
have a breakfast
Action
To
drink coffee
Function
To
/ operation
PLAY
DIGGING
TUNNELS
WETTING
THE
BRUSH
CHOOSING
THE COLOR
PAINTING
WATERCOLOURS
SPREADING
THE GROUND
COLOR TO
PAPER
HOLDING
THE
BRUSH
OCCUPATION
DANCING
PLANNING
THE
PICTURES
SITTING
IN A
CHAIR
PLAYING
WITH
DOLLS
PAINTING
THE
PICTURES
SEEING
THE
COLOURS
ACTIVITY
ACTION
FUNCTION
Occupational analysis
Hagerdorn (1997) describes
occupational analysis as the ability
to "understand the nature of an
individual's participation and
performance and what it means to
him
(focused on the person as doer)
Occupational analysis
Understanding the nature of the
occupation, activity or task.
(focused on the thing to be done).
Requirements to
occupational analysis
Participation analysis
existential analysis
performance analysis
occupational analysis
activity analysis
task analysis
applied analysis
Hagedorn (1997)
Concepts connected to
activity analysis
Assessment:
Process
Analysis
Logical,
Activity analysis
Basic analysis
Demand analysis
Applied analysis
Considers the potential remedial benefits and
application for a specific condition or particular
individual and how the task or activity might be
adapted to promote or enhance performance
Task focused
activity analysis
Step 1
Step 2
Step 3
Step 4
Step 5
Step 6
Step 7
Step 8
Client-centered analysis
1.
2.
3.
4.
Analysis of patterns of
participation
participation analysis
interests and patterns of engagement
References:
www.enothe.hva.nl
Hagedorn, R. 2000. Tools for
Practice in Occupational
Therapy: A Structured
Approach to Core Skills.
Churchill Livingstone.