The Model of Human Occupation (MOHO) explains how occupations are motivated, patterned, and performed within everyday environments (Kielhofner, 2008). It has been argued that MOHO is the most widely-cited and utilized occupation-focused practice model in the world (Haglund, Ekbladh, Thorell, & Hallberg, 2000; Law & McColl, 1989; Lee, 2010; National Board for Certification in Occupational Therapy, 2004).

MOHO-IRM Web is a confidential online resource for occupational therapy practitioners, educators, students, and researchers. Here you may access and use all of the MOHO assessments and interventions that are supported for distribution through the University of Illinois at Chicago. Assessments for sale have been psychometrically validated using classical test theory and RASCH approaches. References to this research and other evidence for the use of MOHO throughout the world are available in the Scholarship section. Additionally, MOHO-IRM Web offers access to translated versions of the MOHO Assessments in 20 languages.

The Model of Human Occupation and its corresponding assessments and resources are the result of three decades of extensive contributions and collaborations from the late Dr. Gary Kielhofner, Professor and Head of the Department of Occupational Therapy at the University of Illinois at Chicago. MOHO-IRM Web is dedicated to his memory.

"It's not what you take when you leave this world behind you. It's what you leave behind you when you go." - Randy Travis.

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The Intentional Relationship Model (IRM) was created in 2008 by Dr. Renee Taylor with the debut of her textbook: "The Intentional Relationship: Occupational Therapy and Use of Self." IRM provides therapists with guidance on how to communicate with clients in ways that best meet their clients' interpersonal needs as they unfold within the therapeutic interaction. IRM describes six therapeutic approaches to communicating with clients, or modes: Advocating, Collaborating, Empathizing, Encouraging, Instructing, and Problem-Solving. IRM describes an interpersonal reasoning process by which a therapist learns to apply these modes to match a client's unique interpersonal characteristics while at the same time responding to the inevitable interpersonal events of therapy (Taylor, 2019).