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Occupational Science
Occupational Science Terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Occupational adaptation | A process of change that enables humans to make occupational responses to challenges presented by the environments in which they ... |
| Occupational alienation | The sense of powerlessness, separation from self and others, loss of control, and meaninglessness one experiences when engaging in activities ... |
| Occupational apartheid | The exclusion of people from opportunities for *occupational performance and *occupational engagement by society and its systems, due ... |
| Occupational balance | The extent to which a person’s *occupational performance and *occupational engagement are equitable, satisfactory, or in harmony from |
| Occupational deprivation | A reduction in the amount and diversity of opportunities for *occupational performance and *occupational engagement for an extended ... |
| Occupational development | The gradual change in *occupational engagement, *occupational performance, and *occupational identity that occurs over the ... |
| Occupational disruption | The temporary disturbance to an individual’s usual pattern of *occupational performance and *occupational engagement with associated negative impacts ... |
| Occupational engagement | The process and state of participating in an occupation which is more than performance, as it includes the sense of ... |
| Occupational enrichment | The process whereby deliberate changes are made to restrictive environments to enable more typical occupational performance and ... |
| Occupational form | The particular circumstances, external to the individual, that stimulate or influence humans to act. Each occupational form comprises physical ... |
| Occupational history | An overview of a person’s occupational performance and occupational engagement up to a specific point in time. |
| Occupational identity | The sense people have of themselves as occupational beings, including their preferences and abilities in occupational performance and ... |
| Occupational imbalance | A variation in the time and energy devoted to different occupations. The imbalance may occur in a number of ways, ... |
| Occupational injustice | The infringement of the rights of a person or group of people to have access to opportunities and resources for ... |
| Occupational justice | The recognition that all humans have a right to engage in a wide range of occupations in order to achieve ... |
| Occupational nature of humans | The innate need humans have to engage in and manage occupations, and the complex relationship between occupation, health, and survival. ... |
| Occupational pattern | A particular way of performing/engaging in an occupation or a number of occupations. ... |
| Occupational performance | A particular way of performing/engaging in an occupation or a number of occupations. ... |
| Occupational performance | The process and state of executing an occupation which can be used to describe the more procedural aspects. This term ... |
| Occupational possibilities | Those occupations which are sanctioned, valued, and made possible within a particular sociocultural context. ... |
| Occupational profile | 1. Alternative term for *occupational history. 2. Summary of the information often gathered as part of the * ... |
| Occupational risk factors | Influences that have the potential to impact negatively on the ability to perform and engage in occupation(s) or to reap ... |
| Doing | A generic term for the continual active engagement of humans in occupations. One of the trilogy of outcomes/purposes of occupational ... |
| Being | State or process in which humans discover themselves, their goals, and priorities that makes them unique. Although it may ... |
| Becoming | The process in which humans constantly engage in order to become all that they can be and want to be, ... |
| Belonging | The sense of being part of a group, connected to others, that humans require and strive for in order to ... |
| Restoration | Serve to renew depleted energy resources and result in improved physical and mental state with feelings of regeneration during and after participation (eg. sleep and quiet focussed activities)- contributes to sense of well-being |
| Productivity | central to human beings nature, goes beyond work, to include all goal-related occupations. |
| Pleasure | Not necessarily goal-directed activities that provide pleasure and generate higher motivation to participate and leaves one feeling refreshed afterwards. |
| Socio-cultural | The relationship between self and society as well as human culture and cultures of service provision. |
| Temporal | Bio-temporality, Socio-temporality, subjective time and orchestrating occupations within the flow of time |
| Spatial | The body as the house of occupation, Occ environment, material culture as human adaption and social meaning of Occ spaces |
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