Person, Environment, Occupational Performance (PEOP) Role in Holistic Health and Fitness Performance of Army Soldiers

Abstract

Medical readiness is a major source of overall military readiness, and Army occupational therapy practitioners are uniquely qualified professionals to enhance readiness within the Army. The literature lacks a theoretical paradigm that guides occupational therapy practitioners with improving readiness in the Army and a unifying model that provides consistent terminology of the internal mechanisms of change for Army occupational therapy practitioners. This article uses two case studies to propose the implementation of the Person, Environment, Occupational Performance (PEOP) model to promote client-centered care and holistic health and fitness performance strategy development provided in the military context.

Keywords:

• Occupational therapy
• function
• medical readiness

Disclosure statement

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