Title: Occupational Adaptation
1Occupational Adaptation
- Emily K. Schulz, Ph.D., Ph.D., OTR/L, CFLE
- OT 606
2Occupational Adaptation Schematic
OCCUPATIONAL ENVIRONMENT Element
PERSON Element
INTERACTION Element
Demand for Mastery
Desire for Mastery
Press for Mastery
Occupational Challenge
Occupational Environment
Person
Occupational Role Expectations
Adaptive Response Generation Subprocess
Incorporation into Occupational Environment
Occupational Response
Adaptive Response Integration Subprocess
Adaptive Response Evaluation Subprocess
Assessment of Response Outcome
3The Person System and the Adaptive Response
Generation Subprocess
Person
Adaptive Response Generation Subprocess
Adaptive Response Mechanism
Adaptation Gestalt
4 The Person - Adaptive Response
Generation Subprocess
Adaptive Response mechanism
Adaptation Gestalt
Adaptive Response Modes
Adaptive Response behaviors
Adaptation Energy Primary Energy Secondary Energy
Cognitive
Psychosocial
Hyperstable Hypermobile Blended
Existing Modified New
Sensorimotor
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5Occupational Adaptation
6Adaptive Response Generation Subprocess
- Adaptive Response Modes
- Patterns of responding to environmental cues that
the individual develops. - Existing - those already in our repertoire
- Modified - those in which we make changes in an
existing mode - New - those that come about because our existing
or modified are not working for a particular need.
- Adaptive Response Behaviors
- Are types of behavior we use in attempting to
respond adaptively and masterfully. - Primitive (hyperstable) - presents as a kind of
stuckness - Transitional (hypermobile) - highly variable, not
well-modulated, very active, often random, and
without clear goal direction. - Mature (blended) - modulated, goal directed,
logical or insightful, and solution oriented.
- Adaptation Energy
- is the fuel that drives the occupational
adaptation process. - Primary Energy -
- Is active when there is intentional and focused
attention directed to the occupational challenge
at hand - Secondary Energy -
- is active when there is intentional and focused
attention directed away from the occupational
challenge at hand
- Adaptation Gestalt
- Every person system (psychosocial, cognitive,
sensorimotor) is present in every response. The
three person systems then must be configured into
a plan for the occupational response. This plan
is called the adaptation gestalt.
7Adaptive Response Evaluation Subprocess
- Relative Mastery - Is measured by
- Efficiency
- Effectiveness
- Satisfaction to Self
- Satisfaction to Others/Society