The Redesigning Daily Occupations (ReDO)-Program: Supporting Women With Stress-Related Disorders to Return to Work—Knowledge Base, Structure, and Content

Abstract

This article presents the structure and content of an occupational therapy group treatment program intended to enable lifestyle changes for return to work, used with women who have stress-related disorders. The Redesigning Daily Occupations-program constitutes three phases. Phase I focuses on occupational self-analysis. Phase II focuses on setting goals and strategies for change, and Phase III is a job placement program that provides opportunities to implement the strategies when work is restarted. The program may be of use for the target group and additional populations where people experience difficulties in organizing their daily occupations. The program outcome should be evaluated.

KEYWORDS:

• occupational therapy
• intervention
• occupational value
• occupational patterns

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The author is grateful to the four occupational therapists—Gun Johansson, Ingrid Jönsson, Kerstin Kniberg, and Susanne Sverdrup—who participated in the development of the ReDO-program and who headed, in all, eight treatment groups. They have made significant contributions to the ReDO research project. The ReDO research project is financially supported by the Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research and Vårdal Institute, The Swedish Institute of Health Sciences.

Notes

^a An instrument developed by Erlandsson and Eklund (2003). Two open questions are used to identify and grade experiences of hassles and uplifts in life.