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About the Author |
vii |
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Acknowledgments |
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Introduction |
xi |
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Chapter 1 |
Meaning: An Essential for Life |
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Personal and Social Meanings |
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Meaning and Performance in Life |
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Aspects of Seeing |
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How do We “Know” Meaning? |
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The Open Door Policy |
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Chapter 2 |
Meaning in Everyday Occupation |
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Happiness Is |
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Occupation and Being |
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Occupation and Becoming |
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Occupation and Belonging |
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Chapter 3 |
Space and Place: Sources of Meaning in Occupation |
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Space and Piace in Our Lives |
41 |
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Health and Well-Being within Space and Place |
42 |
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Space and Therapy |
43 |
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From Space to Place in Therapy |
44 |
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Placelessness |
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Special Places |
51 |
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A Geography of Health |
55 |
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Chapter 4 |
Culture and Occupation: the Experience of Similarity and Difference |
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Culture as Similarity and Difference |
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Cultivating the Similar in Our Lives |
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Cultivating Difference in Our Lives |
70 |
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Structuring the Similarities: Routines, Habits, and Rituals |
71 |
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Disability as Difference |
76 |
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Chapter 5 |
Occupation as a Source of Well-Being and Development |
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The Essence of Well-Being |
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Occupation and Human Development |
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Occupation to the End |
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Chapter 6 |
Occupation as Meaningful Connection |
101 |
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Relation and the Professional |
103 |
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Relation and Well-Being |
106 |
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Occupational Forms of Relation |
109 |
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Occupational Therapy and Connectedness |
113 |
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Chapter 7 |
Disability and Occupation |
123 |
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The Faces of Disability |
126 |
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Occupation as Disability Experience |
129 |
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Disability as Occupational Experience |
133 |
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Being the Bridge |
136 |
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Chapter 8 |
Occupation as a Source of Spirituality |
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This Thing Called Spirituality |
145 |
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Spiritual “Health” |
146 |
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Spirituality and Occupation: Compatible Partners? |
148 |
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Spirituality and Everyday Occupation |
150 |
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Spirituality and Occupational Therapy |
154 |
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The Space Within |
157 |
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Chapter 9 |
Creativity in Occupation as a Source of Meaning |
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Creativity from without and Within |
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Arising from Chaos |
170 |
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Creativity and Health |
172 |
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To the Dancing Star |
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Chapter 10 |
Occupation Speaks: Final Thoughts |
183 |
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The Therapist and the Splint |
186 |
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Index |
189 |
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