Includes bibliographical references and index.

The complexity of human occupation / Christiansen and Baum -- The evolution of occupation / Bing -- Occupational development / Edwards and Christiansen -- Time use and patterns of occupations / Christiansen -- Personal & environmental influences on occupations / Stone -- Occupation and meaning / Jonsson and Josephsson -- Relationship of occupations to health and well-being / Wilcock -- Occupational issues of concern in populations / Bass-Haugen ... [et al.] -- Methods of inquiry: the study of human occupation / Polatajko and Davis -- Introduction to occupation-based practice / Moyers -- Person-environment-occupation-performance (PEOP), an occupational-based framework for practice / Baum and Christiansen -- Personal performance capabilities and their impact on occupational performance / Lou and Lane -- Environmental enablers and their impact on occupational performance / Stark and Sanford -- Occupational performance assessment / Law, Baum and Dunn -- Person-environment-occupation-performance (PEOP), a model for planning interventions for individuals and organizations / Baum, Christiansen and Bass-Haugen -- Categories and principles of interventions / Youngstrom and Brown -- Therapy as learning / Berkeland and Flinn -- OT interventions in a rehabilitation context / McColl -- OT interventions: community health approaches / Scaffa and Brownson -- Interventions in a societal context: enabling participation / Townsend and Landry -- Outcomes: the results of interventions in occupational therapy practice / Baum and Christiansen.