Ecology of Human Performance (EHP) MOP

Ecology of Human Practice

It emphasizes prevention, health-promotion, and rehab

intervention that is all inclusive towards people.

This model is made for practitioners across healthcare. It is

a person-centered model that respects and values all

people with varying disabilities.

EHP componenets

person, task, context, performance

OTs role in this model

to analyze the situation to

ensure the person can work through all the components

without problems to achieve healthy functioning.

Theorists of EHP

Dunn, Brown, mcGuigan, Youngstorm

Motivation in EHP

Enhanced by directly asking the person what he or she wants and needs

If they are interested then they are more likely to engage

Function (EHP)

Individuals who have a high performance range of tasks and can participate in numerous occupations and roles

Assessment in EHP

OTs help clients by carefully assessing all components that

may be affecting performance outcomes and setting goals

for them to improve.

There are 6 steps

Step 1

Identify and prioritize the person's wants and needs

by gathering data

Step 2

Do a task analysis to understand still requirements and demands

Step 3

observe and evaluate performance style of completing tasks

Step 4

identify the desired context for clients

Step 5

assess person variables like strengths and weaknesses

Step 6

establish consumer-drive goals and empower client through the therapeutic process

5 intervention types

establish and restore, alter, adapt/modify, prevent, create

Establish and restore

A practitioner seeks to remediate person

variables that are part of one's sensorimotor,

cognitive, and/or psychosocial domains.

They use educational (behavioral) methods

and task analysis to restore or remediate

skills

Alter

Focuses on the context. It involves selecting

a context (environment) that matches the

client's current capacity and activity

demands. The practitioner seeks the best

environment to support human performance

for the client at their functioning level

Adapt/Modify

Focuses directly on the modification of the

context or task for successful performance.

The practitioner has determined that a way to

improve occupational performance is to

adapt/modify either the task or the contextual

features to match the person's current level

of functioning

Prevent

Focus is to proactively minimize risks and

avoid the development of the performance

problems. Representative of a health

promotional attitude and preemptive strategy,

it is a primary intervention approach

Create

Promotes enriching and meaningful

occupational performance. Targeted at

person variables, tasks, and contexts. The

goal is to support optimal performance by

maximizing opportunities that enhance one's

quality of life

Goal of EHP

to maximize a person's participation and success in daily life by understanding how their person, context, and task dynamically interact to shape their performance range