The ValMO Model

Foreword – ValMO model 9

Preface to the first English edition 11

Introducing the Authors 12

Introduction 14

Literature     18

Part 1

IContext, basic concepts and dimensions

 1. Current occupational
 therapy – a challenge     21

The dilemma of occupational therapists     24

Occupational therapy – something self-evident     25

Occupational therapy for a healthy life by doing     27

The challenge for occupational therapy     32

Literature     34

 2. Why do we need a model describing human occupation?     35

How the ValMO model came about     35

Occupation analysis     36

Categorizing occupations     37

Meaning in occupation     38

The ValMO model     43

Literature     44

 3. The occupation and the value triads     45

The occupation triad     45

Occupation and value     48

Literature     59

 4. The perspective triad     61

Three time perspectives     61

Macro-perspective     64

Meso-perspective     75

Micro-perspective     77

Interaction between the three time perspectives     81

Literature     84

 5. The ValMO model, health and illness     87

Balance in occupation and occupational patterns     87

Value, meaning and health in relation to occupations     91

Literature     95

 6. Measuring aspects of the ValMO model     97

Identifying patterns     97

Measuring occupational value     104

Final comments     106

Literature     108

 7. Applications of the ValMO model     109

The ValMO model for occupational therapists     109

The ValMO model for performing a self-analysis of occupations     113

The ReDO^® method     113

The ValMO model in efforts toward occupational justice and health in society     116

Literature     117

Part 2

IIOccupations, well-being and sustainable development

 8. The ValMO model in a global sustainability perspective…| with ethical and existential consequences     121

Sustainable development     123

The surface of everyday existence and the depth of life     124

Meaning and change from an individual perspective     126

A new everyday life     130

People’s occupation as anethical means of expression     131

Literature     134

 9. Ecopation – ecoethical occupational awareness     137

Machine-ethical occupations     137

Ecoethical occupations     141

Literature     144

 10. Ecopation and the concept of glocalization     145

Occupational values in eco-occupation     147

The perspective triad on the glocal level     154

Literature     160

Summary     163

Occupational therapy and the occupational perspective     165

Index 167