Overview to Intervention Planning: Spiraling Within the Top-Middle-Bottom Occupational Performance Issues
Book Chapter
Knis-Matthews, L, Richard, L. (2023). Overview to Intervention Planning: Spiraling Within the Top-Middle-Bottom Occupational Performance Issues
. 71-80. 10.4324/9781003392408-10
Knis-Matthews, L, Richard, L. (2023). Overview to Intervention Planning: Spiraling Within the Top-Middle-Bottom Occupational Performance Issues
. 71-80. 10.4324/9781003392408-10
At this point in the process, data gathering for the person’s initial evaluation is nearing a pause. The word pause (and not end) suggests the practitioner is always evaluating for changes to the top-middle-bottom occupational performance issues throughout the evaluation and intervention process. The practitioner has collected relevant data; compartmentalized an abundance of information pertaining to the person’s story around the constructs of person, environment, occupation; and selected priority occupational performance issues (top-middle-bottoms) in collaboration with the person served. Now the intervention planning can begin. The plan for intervention is guided by top evaluations highlighting what change the person is seeking to make and bottom evaluations that shed some light as to what factors may be interfering with realizing these changes. This chapter will explain how these occupational performance issues stay connected within the intervention plan. An emphasis is placed on spiraling up and down within each set of occupational performance issues, beginning with the middle part.
