Background: Occupational adaptation is a key occupational therapy concept, yet lacks clarity
and consensus, impacting on its application in practice, theory and research. Concept …

Background: This study integrates research on practice applications of the construct of
occupational adaptation with occupational therapy and occupational science literature …

This paper introduces a practice model based on the occupational adaptation frame of
reference (Schkade & Schultz, 1992). The occupational adaptation practice model …

The aim of this scoping review was to identify and describe how occupational adaptation
has been used in different research studies published from 1992 to 2015 and to identify …

Overview In this chapter, we synthesize as an introductory chapter the results of a scoping
study on the construct of occupational adaptation that we published as an original research …

Background: The occupational adaptation frame of reference asserts that a person's
occupational functioning may be improved through positive changes in his/her adaptive …

Drs. Janette K. Schkade and Sally Schultz published the seminal articles on the
Occupational Adaptation Model in the American Journal of Occupational Therapy in two …

Overview In this chapter, we analyze many of the studies included in the scoping review of
literature presented in Chapter 1 and offer an analysis of occupational adaptation as an …

Who says theory can't be fun, practical, and understandable? Occupational Adaptation in
Practice: Concepts and Cases is a user-friendly text that clearly describes the theory of …

Overview In this chapter, I present a reconceptualization of Schkade and Schultz's
Occupational Adaptation (OA) model (1992) as having two core principles: Occupational …