Vona du Toit described the importance of task concept in engagement in activity and development of productivity.  In the levels of Creative Ability task concept is reported to develop in the explorative (self-presentation) level. This small and study of 18 occupational therapists (85% from a mental health field) who were known to use the VdTMoCA in their practice investigated the criteria occupational therapists use to determine if a client’s task concept is absent, developing or consolidated. Questionnaire responses were analysed using an open system of coding to identify the themes. The results indicated that therapists used and observed all of the five components of task concept that had been previously described (understanding the task as a whole, task completion, task evaluation, task satisfaction, and identification with the task), however it was suggested that the five components developed, influenced and interacted with each other differently from previously thought.  Previous suggestions in Creative Ability theory assumed that all five components were equally weighted and developed in a sequential manner with understanding the task as a whole being the first and task satisfaction usually the last to develop.  The study data indicated that the components of task concept may not develop in a sequential pattern but rather in a linear way with each component being strengthened as the phase of the level is moved through from therapist directed through to transitional. These suggestions were organised into a new conceptual framework for task concept with accompanying diagrammatic representation.  Due to the small size of the study and the perspectives from a predominantly mental health cohort it was acknowledged that findings required further academic debate and testing.