A Political Practice of Occupational Therapy

by Pollard, Nick; Kronenberg, Franciscus; Sakellariou, Dikaios; Van Bruggen, Hanneke

• ISBN13: 9780443103919
• ISBN10: 0443103917
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-10-09
• Publisher: CHURCHILL LIVINGSTONE

Summary

This challenging and innovative book explores the political aspects of occupational therapy practice, developing this concept from the implications of occupational justice, and expanding on some of the ideas originally set out in OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY WITHOUT BORDERS. The book discusses how practitioners may develop political awareness in order to achieve goals in community development, or towards occupational goals, and is supported by twelve chapters of practice examples from the UK, US, Georgia and Australia as well as an important history of the profession as an agency for social change. Contents include significant theoretical chapters on gender, class and disability, challenges to holism, occupational literacy, and a discussion of political competence.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Theory

A political practice of occupational therapy

Political competence in occupational therapy

When Adam delf and Eve span: occupational literacy and democracy

Explorations of context

Occupational apartheid

Three sites of conflict and co-operation: class, gender and sexuality

Political challenges of holism: hetroglossia and the

Practice

Occupational therapy foundations for political engagement and social transformation

Encouraging student consciousness of the political through community fieldwork

Enacting pADL's in occupational therapy education: health care disparities in Oregon

Individual blame or systemic failure? Re-evaluating occupational disengagement in an Indigenous community

Political practice in occupational therapy in Georgia: 'challenging change' through social action

When the therapist met the evangelists. A story of the enablement of an inner-city community

The Sleaford MACA Group

The Transatlantic Fed: from individual stories of disability to collective action

Working with asylum seekers: challenging occupational apartheid

Illustrating occupational needs of refugees

Reflections on working with South Sudanese refugees in settlement and capacity building a regional Australia

Forging partnerships to address health related needs: targetting embedded rural communities in the horseracing industry

Occupational therapy with Native American youth

Postcolonial practice in occupational therapy: the Tule River Tribal History Project

Facing the challenge: a compass for navigating the heteroglossic content

Index

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