Models & Theory

Japan is one of the world’s largest occupational therapy communities, and it has produced frameworks of its own. Some, like the Kawa model, grew from the ground up out of clinicians’ study meetings. Others, like MTDLP, were designed top-down by the national professional association. Reading them side by side shows two very different ways a profession can build theory.

This section collects my guides to those frameworks — written in English, from inside Japanese practice, with every claim checked against primary sources. Each guide names the original developers and links to the official materials; none of them is an official publication of the frameworks’ rights holders.