Occupational Therapies Without Borders: Volume 2: Towards an Ecology of Occupation-Based Practices

by Kronenberg, Frank

• ISBN13: 9780702031038
• ISBN10: 0702031038
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-11-01
• Publisher: CHURCHILL LIVINGSTONE

Summary

The companion text to Occupational Therapy without Borders - Volume 1: learning from the spirit of survivors!In this landmark text writers from around the world discuss a plurality of occupation-based approaches that explicitly acknowledge the full potential of the art and science of occupational therapy. The profession is presented as a political possibilities-based practice, concerned with what matters most to people in real life contexts, generating practice-based evidence to complement evidence-based practice. As these writers demonstrate, occupational therapies are far more than, as some critical views have suggested, a monoculture of practice rooted in Western modernity. Nobel Peace Laureate Desmond Tutu captures the ethos of this book, which essentially calls for engagements in the service of a purpose that is larger than the advancement of our profession's interests: "Your particular approach to advancing our wellbeing and health strikes me as both unique and easily taken for granted. Whilst you value and work with medical understandings, your main aim seems to go beyond these. You seem to enable people to appreciate more consciously how what we do to and with ourselves and others on a daily basis impacts on our individual and collective wellbeing. As occupational therapists you have a significant contribution to make [.] allowing people from all walks of life to contribute meaningfully to the wellbeing of others." Links philosophy with practical examples of engaging people in ordinary occupations of daily life as a means of enabling them to transform their own lives Includes contributions from worldwide leaders in occupational therapy research and practice Describes concrete initiatives in under-served and neglected populations Looks at social and political mechanisms that influence people's access to useful and meaningful occupation Chapters increase diversity of contributions - geographically, culturally and politically Emphasis on practice, education and research maintains academic credibility A glossary and practical examples in nearly every chapter make text more accessible to students

Table of Contents

Foreword

Foreword

Preface

Dedication

Acknowledgments

List of contributors

Introduction: courage to dance politics

Discourses Without Borders

Pecket Learning Community

Meeting the needs for occupational therapy in Gaza

Manchester survivors poetry and the performance persona Rosie Lugosi

Treating adolescent substance abuse through a perspective of occupational cultivation

Occupational therapy in the social field: concepts and critical considerations

An ethos that transcends borders

Participatory Occupational Justice Framework (POJF) 2010: enabling occupational participation and inclusion

Situated meaning: a matter of cultural safety, inclusion, and occupational therapy

Spirituality in the lives of marginalized children

Occupational therapy in Asia: becoming an inclusive, relevant,and progressive profession

Influencing social challenges through occupational performance

(Re)habilitation and (re)positioning the powerful expert and the sick person

Foucault, power, and professional identities

Occupational therapists - permanent persuaders in emerging roles?

Practices Without Borders

Rebuilding lives and societies through occupation in post-conflict areas and highly marginalized settings

The CETRAM community: building links for social change

Community publishing

Enabling play in the context of rapid social change

Natural disasters: challenging occupational therapists

Ubuntourism: engaging divided people in post-apartheid South Africa

Brazilian experiences in social occupational therapy

From kites to kitchens: collaborative community-based occupational therapy with refugee survivors of torture

Argentina: social participation, activities, and courses of action

Crossing borders in correctional institutions

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