Political Practice of Occupational Therapy

Name: Political Practice of Occupational Therapy
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ISBN: 9780443103919

ISBN-10: 0443103917

ISBN-13: 9780443103919

Edition: 2009

Authors: Nick Pollard, Dikaios Sakellariou, Franciscus Kronenberg

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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…

Book details

List price: $57.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Elsevier - Health Sciences Division
Publication date: 10/9/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.75" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 1.650
Language: English



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