"The Meaning of Everyday Occupation, Third Edition encourages occupational therapy personnel-students, educators, researchers, and practitioners-to recognize humans as occupational beings and to understand the meaning and significance of everyday occupation in day-to-day life. It explores the concept of meaning as it relates to occupation in daily life. Each chapter is augmented by the authors' personal reflections, narratives from occupational therapists in practice, and quotations from participants in the authors' occupational research, creating a text in which the concepts and theories of occupation and occupational therapy come alive for the reader"-- Provided by publisher.

Meaning in everyday life -- Meaning in everyday occupation -- Space and place : sources of meaning -- A cultural perspective on everyday occupation -- Everyday occupation : source of well-being and development -- Occupation as meaningful connection -- Disability and occupation -- Occupation and the human spirit -- Everyday creativity as a source of meaning -- Occupation speaks : final thoughts.