The number of immigrants is constantly growing in Finland. This leads to higher number of immigrant clients in social and health care. Occupational therapy can enhance integration of immigrants by helping them to find new ways to carry out occupations in their daily lives. Thus, occupational therapists do not have any standardized therapeutic methods to work with immigrant clients in practice. Lifestyle Redesign® Program is a preventative occupational therapy group program and applicable to multiple client groups. This thesis was carried out in co-operation with Oulun seudun setlementti ry.

The purpose of this bachelor´s thesis was to plan, carry out, evaluate and raport an application of Lifestyle Redesign® Program for young male immigrants.

An occupational therapy group consisting of six male immigrants was established and Lifestyle Redesign® Program was applied to the group. The program gave us themes which we applied to be appropriate for our group. The participants had a possibility to affect the content of the themes which were implemented in the group. The Functional Group Work Model developed by Barnes, Howe and Schwatrzberg guided us to lead the group and helped us to understand the group process. Evaluation was based on the written feedback from the group members and the personnel from Oulun seudun setlementti ry.

On the basis of the feedback and our own observations we can conclude that the group had a positive impact on participants´ life management skills. The group also helped them to find structure in their daily lives.

As a conclusion we can say that immigrants benefit from occupational group therapy as it offers a possibility to share experiences and come across with other people who are in the same situation. Young immigrants have an urgent need for support as they move alone to a new country and try to start a life there. It would be important that occupational therapy groups could be offered to every immigrant as an early method to prevent the feelings of loneliness and displacement.