The Meaning of Everyday Occupation Book

Contents 

Chapter 1 Meaning: An Essential for Life
Personal and Social Meaning
Meaning and Performance in Life
Aspects of Seeing
How Do We "Know" Meaning?
The Open Door Policy
Chapter 2 Meaning in Everyday Occupation
Happiness Is…
Occupation and Being
Occupation and Becoming
Conclusions
Chapter 3 Space and Place: Sources of Meaning in Occupation
Space and Place in Our Lives
Placelessness
"A Place to Call Home"
At Home in an Institution
Special Places
Health and Well-Being Within Space and Place
Chapter 4 Culture and Occupation: The Experience of Similarity and Difference
Culture as Similarity and Difference
Cultivating the Similar in Our Lives
Cultivating Difference in Our Lives
Structuring the Similarities: Routines, Habits, and Rituals
Disability as Difference
Chapter 5 Occupation as a Source of Well-Being and Development
The Essence of Well-Being
Occupation and Human Development
Occupation to the End
Chapter 6 Disability and Occupation
The Faces of Disability
Occupation as Disability Experience
Disability as Occupational Experience
Being the Bridge
Chapter 7 Occupation as Meaningful Connection
Capacity for Relatedness
Relation and Well-Being
A Balance of Solitude and Relation
Occupational Therapy and Connectedness
Occupational Forms of Relation
Conclusion
Chapter 8 Occupation as a Source of Spirituality
This Thing Called Spirituality
Spiritual "Health"
Spirituality and Occupation: Compatible Partners?
Spirituality and Everyday Occupation
Spirituality and OccupationalTherapy
Spirituality as the Space Within
Chapter 9 Creativity in Occupation: A Source of Meaning
Beginnings
Creativity and Health
To the Dancing Star
Chapter 10 Final Thoughts 
References 

Index