The PEOP model is a client-centered …show more content…
The person’s ego, or sense of self, is similar to the spiritually in a client-centered treatment in therapy. Spiritually is the experience of meaning (Cole & Tufano, 2008). Cole and Tufano (2008) stated the meaning of occupations are the emotions, motivation, and affect. The FOR uses concepts of ego psychology, object relations, human spirituality, and humanism (Cole & Tufano, 2008). The psychodynamic FOR applies the focus and concepts to clients, specifically mental health practice (Cole & Tufano, 2008). There are five areas of focus in the psychodynamic theory: social participation and relationships, emotional expression and motivation, self-awareness, defense mechanisms, and projective arts and activities (Cole & Tufano, 2008). Social participation and relationships revolve around shared activities (Cole & Tufano, 2008). Examples of this could be Henry working on wood burning projects with his father. The attachment theory comes the concept and refers to the satisfaction of emotional needs through participation (Cole & Tufano, 2008). The frame of reference explains how emotions and personal drives influences every area of occupational performance (Cole & Tufano, 2008). The psychodynamic theory uses to individual’s ability to love and work as motivation (Cole & Tufano, …show more content…
Cole and Tufano (2008) stated the functions of the ego include reality-testing, judgement, sense of self and the world, control of drive, object relationship, thought processes, adaptive regression, defensive functioning, stimulus barrier, autonomous functioning, synthetic integrative functions, and mastery. Henry displays immature defenses, a lack of self-control, acting out, and deficits in coping. For an individual to be healthy, the ego functions need to be present throughout occupational performance (Cole & Tufano, 2008). Disability is the imbalance of the three parts of the personality (Cole & Tufano,