Activity Analysis Application to Occupation

To respond to the renewed focus by the occupational therapy profession upon occupation, the fifth edition of Activity Analysis and Application has been updated and renamed to reflect this latest emphasis. WhileActivity Analysis: Application to Occupation, Fifth Editionmaintains the sequential process of learning activity analysis, this step-by-step approach now helps students analyze activity for the purpose of optimizing the client's occupational performance.Gayle Hersch, Nancy Lamport, and Margaret Coffey successfully guide students through the development of clinical reasoning skills critical to planning a client's return to meaningful engagement in valued occupations. The authors utilize a straightforward teaching approach that allows students to progress developmentally in understanding both the analysis and application of activity to client intervention.The Occupational Therapy Practice Framework: Domain and Process, with a prominent focus on occupation as this profession's philosophical basis for practice, has been incorporated in the updated forms and explanations of the activity analysis approach.Activity Analysis: Application to Occupation, Fifth Editionis a worthy contribution to the professional education of occupational therapists in furthering their understanding and application of activity and occupation. Features: The newly titled Client-Activity Intervention Plan that synthesizes the activity analysis into client application. Objectives at the beginning of each unit. Discussion questions and examples of daily life occupations. A Web site including 5 forms where students and practitioners can download and print information for class assignments and clinical settings.

Gayle I. Hersch, PhD, OTR, is an Associate Professor with the School of Occupational Therapy at Texas Woman’s University. Her responsibilities are in the areas of teaching and research with master’s and doctoral students. Her practice area is in gerontology with emphasis on Alzheimer’s disease, stroke, caregiving, and home safety. Prior to joining the faculty at Texas Woman’s University, she was a faculty member of the Department of Occupational Therapy, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis (IUPUI)*, Indianapolis, IN.    

Nancy K. Lamport, MS, OTR is an Associate Professor Emerita in the Department of Occupational Therapy, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, IUPUI*, Indianapolis, IN. Prior to her retirement, her teaching responsibilities included fundamentals of occupational therapy (activity analysis), activities of daily living, leisure activities, and media. Her interests now include travel, community volunteering, and Medieval English tiles.     

Margaret S. Coffey, MA, COTA, ROH is the Activities Coordinator of Providence House, an assisted-living facility for memory impaired adults in South Bend, IN. She is a contributing writer for Spin-Off magazine and teaches occupational therapy concepts in hand spinning and weaving activities to the well population, She is a former lecturer in the Department of Occupational Therapy, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, IUPUI*, Indianapolis, IN.

(*Formerly known as the Occupational Therapy Program, School of Allied Health Sciences, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana.)