Occupational Science The Evolving Discipline Book

Preface

Part 1: Importance of Occupation
Introduction 1. Enfolded Activity and the Concept of Occupation
2. International Relations and Everyday Life
3. Realistic Expressions: Statements of Being
4. Striving for Excellence in the Presence of Disabilities
5. Occupations of Chimpanzee Infants and Mothers

Part 2: Defining and Classifying
Introduction 6. The Concept of Adaptation as a Foundation for Occupational Science Research
7. Work Versus Nonwork: The Case of Household Work
8. Perspectives on Play
9. Play and Playfulness in Preschool Children

Part 3: Dimensions of Occupation
Introduction 10. The Band Community: Synchronizing Human Activity Cycles for Group Cooperation
11. Time, Space, and the Geography of Everyday Life of People Who Are Homeless
12. Human Daily Travel: Personal Choices and External Constraints
13. The Work of Scholars
14. The Self-Perpetuation of Occupations

Part 4: Biology and Occupation
Introduction 15. Brain, Mind, and Meaning
16. The Occupational Therapy Center as an Enriched Environment
17. Enrichment in Primates: Relevance to Occupational Science
18. A Biosocial Perspective on Human Occupation
19. Mate Selection as Occupation
20. Biological Sex, Gender, and the Work of Nonhuman Primates

Part 5: Co-Occupations of Mothers and Children
Introduction 21. Games Mothers Play with Their Full-Term or Pre-Term Infants
22. An Opportunity for Co-Adaptation: The Experience of Mothers and Their Infants Who AreBlind
23. A Phenomenology of Motherhood
24. Early Childhood: The Social Domain

Part 6: Perspectives on Occupation
Introduction 25. Miles Davis: Occupations in the Extreme
26. Running as an Occupation: Multiple Meanings and Purposes
27. The Occupation of Needlework
28. Dynamic Systems Theory: An Overview
29. Application of Dynamic Systems Theory to Occupation

Part 7: Occupational Science: Mapping New Directions for Occupational Therapy
Introduction 30. Academic Disciplines: Maps for Professional Development
31. Shared Moral Careers and Occupational Choice in a Family
32. Living a Meaningful Existence in Old Age
33. Temporal Adaptation in the Intensive Care Unit
34. A Grounded Theory of Techniques for Occupational Storytelling and Occupational Story Making
35. Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy: An Emphasis on Meaning

Part 8: Wilma West Lectures
Introduction 36. A Tribute to Wilma L. West
37. Variations in Childhood Occupations: Play in the Presence of Chronic Disability
38. The Scope of Occupational Science
39. Valuing the Ordinary
40. Three Perspectives on Balance in Occupation
Index