No One Dresses Accidentally: A Research Synthesis on Intentional Occupational Performance

OTJR: Occupation, Participation and Health

AOTF: The American Occupational Therapy Foundation

Life Balance: Multidisciplinary Theories and Research

Feature Article
No One Dresses Accidentally: A Research Synthesis on Intentional Occupational Performance

OTJR: Occupation, Participation and Health
Vol. 30, No. 3 Summer 2010

By Jeffrey L. Crabtree, MS, OTD, FAOTA

ABSTRACT

The fields of philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience have differing but comparable perspectives on intention. Taken together, these perspectives help explain intentional occupational performance. This rich body of research and theory also offers insight into the critical role of intention in the therapeutic use of occupation. This synthesis examines these perspectives of intention as they relate to the concept of occupational performance and discusses the implications of intention for the therapeutic use of occupation, which ultimately include the need for occupational therapists to renew their professional focus on occupation as their single level of intervention.

AUTHOR

Jeffrey L. Crabtree, MS, OTD, FAOTA, is Associate Professor, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana.

Originally submitted November 2, 2008. Accepted for publication April 4, 2009. Posted online July 25, 2009.

Address correspondence to Jeffrey L. Crabtree at jlcrabtr@iupui.edu.

doi: 10.3928/15394492-20090725-01

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