Recovery Through Activity : Increasing Participation in Everyday Life

The Recovery Through Activity offers an occupation-centred treatment programme and intervention, rooted in occupational therapy, and underpinned by the Model of Human Occupation. This valuable resource contains comprehensive evidence regarding the value of twelve categories of activity, along with a wealth of resources to support their implementation.

Fully revised to reflect current practice, and with a range of fresh resources, this book:

Will help practitioners support participants in recognising the long-term benefits of occupational participation while exploring a range of activities.

Offers comprehensive evidence regarding the value of activity along with a wealth of resources to support implementation of an occupation-based intervention.

Includes worksheets that are available for download online to support easy use, as well as links to purpose-made mini videos introducing prospective participants to the 12 topics.

Provides examples of how groupwork can be adapted, as well as suggestions for how assessments can be used to build competence in 1:1 work.

Divides session ideas into quick questions, discussion topics, and options for exploration and reflection.

Presents new session ideas as well as helpful signposts to further developments in the companion handbook, Discovery Through Activity .