1. Analysis of Occupation from Multicultural Aspect
Karin Lilienberg,
exchange lecturer
Tallinn Health College,
Estonia
Riga 2006

2. Culture
State of manners, taste and intellectual development at a time or place
Customs
Achievements
Products
Outlook
Hygiene, nutrition, exercise

3. Culture Leadership in the family Attitudes towards work Values, roles
Issue of language
Differing etnicity
Health beliefs and practices

4. Multicultural More than one culture
Supporting integration of people of different countries, ethnic groups, and religions into all areas of society

11. 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

12. 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

13. Occupation Occupying or being occupied
what occupies one, means of filling up one’s time, temporary or regular employment, business, calling, pursuit
refers to all purposeful human activity
Wilcock (1998)

14. Occupation Hagedorn (1995)
Generic term encompassing all aspects of a person’s engagement in roles, processes, activities or tasks in the course of daily life
Hagedorn (1995)

15. Activity
The execution of a structured series of tasks that contributes to occupations (

16. Purposeful activity
Have personal meaning combined with a goal-directed quality
Involve active engagement that meets personal goals or needs
Therapeutic, purposeful activities are used to evaluate, facilitate, restore or maintain an individual's abilities to meet demands in his or her life to engage in occupations

17. Meaning Figuring things out or making sense out
Entire interpretive process in which an individual engages
Figuring things out or making sense out
Depends on the interaction of the person's developmental structure and occupational form

18. Purpose
Experience of wanting an outcome to result from occupational performance
Link between meaning, developmental structure, and occupational performance
(Nelson 1994:23)

19. Task
A series of structured steps (actions and/or thoughts) intended to accomplish a specific goal. This goal could either be:
The performance of an activity or
A piece of work the individual is expected to do (

20. 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 (

21. Connection between occupation, activity, action and function
Life course repertoire of occupations
Maintenance (self-care), productivity (work, play), rest/ free time (leisure)
Activity
To have a breakfast
Action
To drink coffee
Function / operation
To grip the cup

22. PLAY
OCCUPATION
PAINTING WATER- COLOURS
PLAYING WITH DOLLS
DIGGING TUNNELS
DANCING
ACTIVITY
PLANNING THE PICTURES
PAINTING THE PICTURES
WETTING THE BRUSH
SPREADING THE GROUND COLOR TO PAPER
ACTION
CHOOSING THE COLOR
HOLDING THE BRUSH
SITTING IN A CHAIR
SEEING THE COLOURS
FUNCTION

23. 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)

24. Occupational analysis
Understanding the nature of the occupation, activity or task. (focused on the thing to be done).

25. Requirements to occupational analysis
Participation analysis
existential analysis
performance analysis
occupational analysis
activity analysis
task analysis
applied analysis
Hagedorn (1997)

26. Concepts connected to activity analysis
Assessment:
Process that is based on the knowledge about client
Analysis
Logical, reductive process in the course of which something is minutely examined and broken down into simple components

27. Activity analysis Basic analysis Demand analysis Applied analysis
Describes part of an occupation
What is done, the order in which it is done and the essential tools and materials
Demand analysis
describes the demand which the task or activity places on the participant
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

28. Task – focused activity analysis
Step 1
Step 2
Step 3
Step 4
Step 5
Step 6
Step 7
Step 8
Describe the activity
Describe the typical age range of people who are engaged in this activity
Describe the environmental aspects of the performance context
List supplies and equipment needed to carry out the activity
Describe the safety hazards inherent in this activity
List the sequential steps of the activity
What performance components are needed for the activity
Grading and adapting activity

29. Client-centered analysis
analysis of an occupational history
analysis of patterns of participation
analysis of performance demands and ability to respond
analysis of interests

30. Analysis of patterns of participation
participation analysis
interests and patterns of engagement
routine or habit analysis
degree of flexibility or rigid of such patterns

31. References: www.enothe.hva.nl
Hagedorn, R Tools for Practice in Occupational Therapy: A Structured Approach to Core Skills. Churchill Livingstone.