Life-style Performance: A Model for Engagement in Human Existence presents the theoretical base, structural format, and application of the Life Style Performance Model. This model of occupational therapy practice provides the occupational therapist with ways for responding to the timely needs of community service, of health and wellness programs, and to the dynamics that comprise the quality of life. The Life-style Performance Model is a phenomenologically based practice model that addresses both occupation for occupation's sake and as a therapeutic intervention. This exceptional book builds on the current text Activities: Reality and Symbol, providing the conceptual rationale and structural format for applying knowledge about activities to well populations, to those in need of treatment and rehabilitation, and to the operations of organizations and agencies. In addition, content includes the underlying constructs of the model such as: personal efficacy; self dependency; the multi-dimensions of doing; performance domains, the dynamics of engagement; elements of a person; agency congruence; information gathering processes; skills of interviewing; data analysis and critique; examples of application in various settings; cultures and populations; and projections for the future.

About the Author

Beth P. Velde is director of graduate studies and associate professor of occupational therapy at East Carolina University, Greenville, NC. Dr. Velde earned a bachelor of science degree in zoology and a master of science degree in parks and recreation from the University of Illinois, a master of science degree in occupational therapy from College Misericordia, Dallas, PA, and a PhD in educational psychology from the University of Calgary, Alberta. Since becoming an occupational therapist, she has authored 25 scholarly papers, chapters, and books, including Activities: Reality and Symbol andCommunity Occupational Therapy Education and Practice. Her special interest is in community-built occupational therapy practice and research into the relationship of occupation in quality of life.

Gail S. Fidler holds a bachelor of arts degree from Lebanon Valley College, Annville, PA, and received her formal education in occupational therapy at the University of Pennsylvania. Her early years as an occupational therapist were spent at military and veteran’s hospitals. She has worked for the American Occupational Therapy Association as coordinator of the Psychiatric Study Group and has held numerous positions with occupational therapy educational programs. Mrs. Fidler has published over 25 articles and chapters, and has authored or co-authored six books, including Activities: Reality and Symbol. She continues to pursue scholarly activities in occupational therapy and present her ideas through a variety of modalities.

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