If you do not have an hour to spare, Michael Rhulman brings up some interesting points around what cooking is and what it has accomplished that are also covered in the clip above, but in four minutes!
I chose to discuss cooking as I saw it in both my first year placements. Cooking assessments and activities are a component of mainstream occupational therapy practice. There are formalized assessments that have been well documented in the OT literature (Baum and Edwards, 1993) There are also many informal assessments and uses of cooking activities used in practice. Cooking has been used with children, adults and older adults and across practice areas.
Here is a link to an occupational therapists blog that discusses her uses of cooking therapy with her clients.
http://otjourney.wordpress.com/tag/cooking-therapy/MY POWERPOINT!!
I should begin by defining the term "Doing". According to Hammell (2004) "Doing" refers to the concept of carrying out goal orientated, purposeful activities. People spend most of their time doing meaningful, purposeful activities. As we all know cooking can be something we feel we must do (in order to eat and therefore survive) or it can be something we want to do (for leisure). In both cases the task of cooking is still a purposeful activity, the goal is to produce a product.
Images one through to seven in the slideshow demonstrate the art of doing through cooking. Each photo shows someone doing a cooking task or the product achieved by doing the task.
According to Wilcock (1998), "Being" refers to the “self” and the “essence” of the person. This can can be facilitated through occupational engagement such as cooking. The perception of "being" ranges from appreciating a moment to the deeper experiencing of our inner selves.
Images eight to twelve identify "Being". For example, slide eleven captures the essence (being) of a child enjoying the moment in a cooking task.
"Becoming" refers to the idea that people can in-vision themselves becoming something in the future, and exploring new opportunities (Hammell, 2004).
Images thirteen to fifteen show my understanding of becoming. The images are based on students who are being taught skills in the art of cooking. This to me is becoming as they have in-visioned cooking to be apart of their future and are taking steps to make this happen by exploring the opportunities available to them.
Lastly "Belonging" refers to the sense of being included, and having mutual support and friendship (Hammell, 2004). Belonging can contribute to the meaningfulness and pleasure of "doing".
Images fifteen to twenty show my understanding of belongingness.
In image fifteen and seventeen they are depicting very different types of communities and how cooking and sharing a meal includes them all together and shows the mutual support of the community, or in the case of image seventeen it shows friendship.
Images seventeen to twenty depict the same feeling of support, inclusion and friendship but in a family environment.
References
Baum, C., & Edwards, D. (1993). Cognitive performance in senile dementia of the Alzheimer’s type: The kitchen task assessment. American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 47, 431-436
Evolutionary documentary. (2012, January 12). Did cooking make us human? [video file]. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rf_OWun4Y04
Hammell, K. (2004). Dimensions of meaning in the occupations of daily life. Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy, 71 (5).
Rhulman, M. (2010, October 15). On the importance of cooking [Video file]. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4V4feAFVe8
Wilcock, A. (1998). Reflections on doing, being becoming. Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy, 65, 248-256.
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