The occupational therapy discipline is built on several foundational theories that are fascinating, but they can also feel drawn out and extremely challenging to digest. Because of this, we’ve decided to assist OT students, OTA students, and OT practitioners by providing summarized highlights of the OT frames of reference, all in one place. But first, […]
Having survived several challenging years of occupational therapy school, we have to be honest…learning about theories, models, and frameworks in school isn’t always one of the most fun or exciting aspects of becoming an OT. However, after practicing occupational therapy for several years now, it’s now easy for us to see the importance of these […]
The Person-Environment-Occupation Performance (PEOP) model is an important framework used in occupational therapy to guide therapists’ assessment, intervention, and evaluation of client-centered care. It was first developed in 1985 (and last revised in 2015) by Carolyn Baum and Charles Christiansen during the time when the biomedical model was widely used in Western medicine. The biomedical […]