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Dynamic performance analysis: a framework for understanding occupational performance.

Occupational therapy is now consistently described as a profession concerned with enabling occupation. A crucial step in enabling occupation is understanding the occupational performance of our clients. Dynamic Performance Analysis (DPA) is a new approach to occupational analysis that focuses on the...

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Published in:American Journal of Occupational Therapy Vol. 54; no. 1; pp. 65 - 73
Main Authors: Polatajko HJ, Mandich A, Martini R
Format: case study tables/charts Journal Article
Published: American Occupational Therapy Association Jan/Feb2000
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          Polatajko HJ
          Mandich A
          Martini R
        affil: School of Occupational Therapy, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Western Ontario, Elborn College, London, Ontario N6G 1H1, Canada; hpolataj@julian.uwo.ca
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          Task Performance and Analysis
          Adaptation, Occupational
          Occupational Therapy Assessment
          Occupational Therapy
          Conceptual Framework
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      ab: Occupational therapy is now consistently described as a profession concerned with enabling occupation. A crucial step in enabling occupation is understanding the occupational performance of our clients. Dynamic Performance Analysis (DPA) is a new approach to occupational analysis that focuses on the client's actual performance. DPA, acknowledging that optimal performance is the product of the interaction of person, environment, and occupation, and thus highly individualistic, places the client and his or her occupation, in interaction with the environment, at the center of the analysis process. Embedded in a top-down framework, DPA is a dynamic, iterative process, carried out as the client performs the occupation. The purpose of DPA is to identify where performance breaks down and test out solutions. In this article, the rationale, origins, and basic assumptions of DPA are discussed, and a detailed description of the DPA process together with two clinical examples is presented.
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