The LPM A Tool for Successful Professional and Personal Development

2. Peggy Wittman, EdD, OT/L, FAOTA Professor, OT Department Eastern Kentucky University ASD. April 25. 2012 The LPMA Tool for Successful Professional and Personal Development

3. Who Am I?An OT, an Educator, a Practitioner-Scholar, and a Healthcare Consumer

4. Goals For Today’s Talk • Understand the basic constructs of the Lifestyle Performance Model • Explore how you might use the LPM as a tool for your professional and personal growth and development

5. The Lifestyle Performance Model • Developed by Fidler (AJOT, 1996) and Velde (1998-2002) • Used clinically and to measure outcomes by Wittman and Velde (1998-present)

6. Basic Constructs • The LPM describes and examines the interacting, multiple dimensions of doing and living from an organized, holistic framework • Based on a philosophy of social construction (a person’s perceptions of his/her occupational performance and satisfaction) • Related to Object Relations and Wellness theories • Performance and quality of life are essential constructs • Useful for Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy • A Top-Down Approach • Meets the four criteria for successful practice (client-centered, occupation-based, evidence-incorporated, and outcomes-oriented)

7. Lifestyle • Each person over time, develops a configuration of activity patterns that can be described as a life-style. These patterns of doing, of being engaged, emerge through the interplay of a person’s intrinsic needs, desires, and capacities and unique expectation of the environmental context of the person’s living.

8. Quality Of Life • Integrally related to the LPM as a phenomenological construct • Can be evaluated within each domain and overall

9. Is Chocolate A Choice?

10. Four Domains • Intrinsic Gratification • Reciprocal Interpersonal Relatedness • Societal Contribution • Self Care/Self Maintenance

11. The Assessment Process • The Lifestyle Performance Inventory (LPI) is used to gather data from the client or significant other(s) • A semi-structured interview (questions with probes) • Combined with other information (from chart, other evaluations: ROM, Sensory Profile, Burns Depression Scale, etc.) to form a Lifestyle Performance Profile (LPP)

12. HARMONY

13. Importance of the Environment • Physical – personal space, natural and man-made • Societal – legal, political, economic • Interpersonal – self and significant others, objects, home • Temporal – personal or inner time, mechanical time, natural and social time • Virtual – digitally created world (space and time)

14. Your occupations • Identify 5 or 6 occupations you spend most of your time doing • Identify 5 or 6 occupations you most enjoy doing • How are they alike and different?

15. INTRINSIC GRATIFICATION Personally referenced pleasure, engagement for the joy of it, activity repertoire regarding fun, personal interests

16. RECIPROCAL INTERPERSONAL RELATEDNESS Developing reciprocal relationships, sustaining reciprocal relationships, mutually satisfying, all aspects of living, friendships, intimacy, peer affiliations, family

17. SOCIATAL CONTRIBUTION Contributing to the fulfillment and welfare of others, productive member of society, filling societal roles, reciprocity is not expected

18. SELF CARE/SELF MAINTENANCE Expression of self, self reliance, dressing, grooming, maintenance of living spaces, eating, cooking, etc. (ADLs and IADLs)

19. Your Occupations • In which domains would you place the occupations you identified? • Is there overlap? • Are there any domains with no occupations? • The “Biggest Bang for the Buck” hypothesis

20. Where To From Here? • Professional and Personal Goal Setting • What are you looking for? • What occupations are most important to you? • How do you prioritize these? • How can you have harmony? Quality of Life? Wellness? Life satisfaction?

22. Four Domains • Intrinsic Gratification • Reciprocal Interpersonal Relatedness • Societal Contribution • Self Care/Self Maintenance

23. Time • 24 hours/day/7 days/week = 168 hours/week = 672 hours/month • WORK: 40 hours/week/5 days/week = 160 hours/month • SLEEP: 8 hours/day = 56 hours/week = 224 hours/month • OTHER: (Work + Sleep = 384 hours/month) deducted from Total = 288 hours/month!

25. References (Publications) • Vaught, E. & Wittman, P. (2011). A phenomenological study of the occupational choices of individuals who self-identify as adult children of alcoholics. Journal of Occupational Science, 18(4), 356-365. • Wittman, P.P. & Bundy, MB. (September, 2008).The Use of the Lifestyle Performance Model in a Group for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Developmental Disabilities Special Interest Newsletter, 1-4. • Velde, B.P., Wittman, P.P., & Mott, V. W. (2007). Hands-on learning in Tillery. Journal of Transformative Education, (5), 78-92. • Barnard, S.; Dunn, S.; Reddic, E.; Rhodes, K.; Russell, J.; Tuitt, T.; Velde, Beth P.; Wittman, P.P. (April-June 2004). Wellness in Tillery: A community-built program. Family and Community Health. 27, 151-157. • Carter, C., Meckes, L., Pritchard, L., Swensen, S., Wittman, P.P., & Velde, B.P. (April-June 2004). The Friendship Club: An after-school program for children with Asperger Syndrome. Family and Community Health, 27. 143-150. • Kampa, A., Kennedy, J., Velde, B., & Wittman, P. (2003, October 20). In the clinic. The Friendship Club: developing reciprocal relationships in children with Asperger's • syndrome. OT Practice, 8(19), 25-27. • Velde, B. P., Wittman, P.P., Lee, H., Lee, C., Broadhurst, E., Caines, M. (2003). Quality of life of older African American women in rural North Carolina. Journal of Women and Aging, 15(4), 69-82. • Elliott, S. J., Velde, B.P., & Wittman, P. P. (2002). The use of theory in everyday practice: An exploratory study. Occupational Therapy in Health Care, 16, 45-62.

26. References (Presentations) The use of the Lifestyle Performance Model in a Social Skills Group for children with ASD. Walker, B. & Stoffer, K. Kentucky Occupational Therapy Association, Prestonburg, KY, September, 2009. The use of the Lifestyle Performance Model and Animal Assisted Therapy to enhance social Skills: An interdisciplinary project. Poster presented with Bundy, MB., Tackett, K., & Miller, K. Network of Autism Training and Technical Assistance Programs, Columbus, Ohio. November, 2008. The evolution of a community-built practice in Tillery, North Carolina. Paper presented with Velde, B. & Phillips, D. at the 2006 Annual American Occupational Therapy Conference, Long Beach, CA, April, 2006. Using an occupational therapy model of practice to engage the power of occupation.. Velde, B. P. & Wittman, P. P. (2002, June 24). Paper presented at the World Federation of Occupational Therapy, Stockholm, Sweden. Comin Home: Using knowledge of occupation to emancipate participants. Velde, B.P. & Wittman, P. P. (2002, June 26). Paper Presented at the World Federation of Occupational Therapy, Stockholm, Sweden. Quality of life in Tillery, North Carolina. Paper presented with Velde, B. at the 2001 North Carolina Summer Symposium on Aging, Wilmington, NC, July, 2001.

27. References (Book Chapters) Velde, B., Wittman, P. (2002) The use of the Lifestyle Performance Model in a forensic setting and in the community beyond. In G. Fidler and B. Velde (Eds), Life-style performance: A model for engagement in human existence. Thorofare, NJ: Slack Publishers. Velde,B. & Wittman, P. (2002). The use of the Lifestyle Performance Model in community built health services. In G. Fidler and B. Velde (Eds). Life-style performance: A model for engagement in human existence, Thorofare, NJ: Slack Publishers.

28. Questions and Discussion

29. Contact Information • Peggy.wittman@eku.edu