The Meaning of Everyday Occupation, Third Edition, has been updated to reflect new directions in occupational therapy and occupational science. It encourages professionals in occupational therapy, including practitioners, educators, researchers, and students, to acknowledge humans as occupational beings and to comprehend the significance of everyday occupation in daily life.

The Third Edition, written by renowned and award-winning authors Drs. Betty Risteen Hasselkus and Virginia Allen Dickie, examines the idea of meaning in relation to vocation in day-to-day living. Through the addition of quotations from participants in the authors’ occupational research, personal reflections from the authors, and accounts from practicing occupational therapists, each chapter is enhanced to bring the concepts and theories of occupation and occupational therapy to life for the reader.

The Third Edition’s themes include: What everyday life and its vocations mean.
Location and space as meaning-giving elements
Culture in the workplace and in therapeutic settings
Development and well-being through regular work
Employment as a means of interaction
Disability and profession
Career and the human condition
Regular inventiveness
The whole Third Edition, which emphasizes occupation as experience, supports the contributions of meaning to a client-centered approach to practice. This opens up new possibilities for therapeutically influencing the systems that each of us lives and works in.

We frequently take our daily jobs for granted. The Meaning of Everyday Occupation, Third Edition gives readers the chance to contemplate daily occupational patterns on a personal level by making everyday occupation more visible. Occupational therapy staff members are better able to comprehend how clients’ lives are impacted by their daily occupation and its interruption when they are aware of these patterns in their own lives.

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