A Political Practice of Occupational Therapy

Nick Pollard, Dikaios Sakellariou, Frank Kronenberg, Nick Pollard, Dikaios Sakellariou, Frank Kronenberg

• Publisher: Churchill Livingstone
• Year: 2008
• Print ISBN:
  9780443103919
• eBook ISBN:
  9780702037023
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Occupational Therapy

This challenging and innovative book explores the political aspects of occupational therapy. It looks at how practitioners may develop political awareness in order to aid community development. A Political Practice of Occupational Therapy is about maximizing the potential impact of occupational therapists' engagements and ensuring the profession is working towards the contruction of a civic society. It is supported by twelve chapters of practice examples from the UK, US, Georgia and Australia, as well as a history of the profession as an agency for social change.It asks: - How is it possible to introduce the political into a profession that is linked to health and social care?- What form could political practice take, and how could the political components of practice be analyzed and evaluated? It includes significant theoretical chapters on gender, class and sexuality, challenges to holism, occupational literacy, and a discussion of political competence. This book will be of particular use for students exploring community and emerging role settings, client centred practice, occupational and social justice and the theoretical base of the profession.From an editorial team that is widely recognized for their challenges to traditional thought and practice in occupational therapy, this book will be of value not just to occupational therapists but also those employed in health profession management and development, and community based rehabilitation.

Table of contents

• Cover image
• Table of Contents
• Front matter
• Copyright
• List of contributors
• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. A political practice of occupational therapy
• Chapter 2. Political competence in occupational therapy
• Chapter 3. When Adam dalf and Eve span
• Chapter 4. Occupational apartheid
• Chapter 5. Three sites of conflict and cooperation
• Chapter 6. Political challenges of holism
• Chapter 7. Occupational therapy foundations for political engagement and social transformation
• Chapter 8. Encouraging student consciousness of the political through community fieldwork
• Chapter 9. Enacting political activities of daily living in occupational therapy education
• Chapter 10. Individual blame or systemic failure? Re-evaluating occupational disengagement in an Indigenous community
• Chapter 11. Political practice in occupational therapy in georgia
• Chapter 12. When the therapist met the evangelists
• Chapter 13. The Sleaford MACA group
• Chapter 14. The Transatlantic Fed
• Chapter 15. Working with refugees and asylum seekers
• Chapter 16. Illustrating occupational needs of refugees
• Chapter 17. Reflections on working with south Sudanese refugees in settlement and capacity building in regional Australia
• Chapter 18. Forging partnerships to address health-related needs
• Chapter 19. Occupational therapy with Native American youth
• Chapter 20. Postcolonial practice in occupational therapy
• Chapter 21. Facing the challenge
• Index