The Person-Environment-Occupation-Performance Model
- Authors: Charles Christiansen and Carolyn Baum
- Created: 1985; Updated: 1997
- Time Period:
- Occupational Science founded and expanded
- Beginning of identity crisis
- Contemporary paradigm emerging
- Expansion of research and publication
- Constructs:
- Person
- Environment
- Occupations:
- Abilities
- Actions
- Tasks
- Occupations
- Social and occupational roles
- Occupational performance and participation is center of doing occupations
- Intrinsic/extrinsic factors + occupations = overall occupational performance and participation
- Function:
- Client expresses a level of competency to perform and master occupations within meaningful activities
- Dysfunction:
- Client's occupational performance is limited and restricted, occupational competence is not achieved
- Application to Practice:
- Assess competence level and personal, social, material resources within environment
- Promote self-confidence and motivation
- Focus on the person first, rather than the disability
- Understand components of occupational performance
- Research:
- Green, S. & Cooper, B.A. (2000). Occupation as a quality of life constituent: a nursing home perspective. British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 63, 17-24. doi 10.1177/030802260006300104
- Assessments:
- Interviews
- COPM
- Occupational Performance Interview II
- Self-assessments
- Occupational self-assessment
- Activity card sort
- Interest checklist
- Role checklist
- Standardized and Observational Screenings
- Task Analysis
- Intervention Tools:
- Incorporate meaningful occupations
- Identify intrinsic factors
- Recognize and alter environmental factors
- Adapt and modify tasks and occupations
- Improve role functioning/performance
- Change:
- Participation in meaningful occupations matching a client's skill levels to derive a sense of fulfillment and positive self-identity that brings about intrinsic motivation
PEOP
- Basic Concepts:
- Applicable to all individuals, groups, institutional needs across the lifespan
- Client-centered
- Major components:
- occupations
- performance
- person
- environment
- Relationships are transactive
- Domain of Practice:
- client selects occupational performance issue
Cole, M. B., & Tufano, R. (2008). Applied theories in occupational therapy: A
practical approach. Thorofare, NJ: Slack, Inc. ISBN: 978-1-55642-573-8