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Occupational Science: Society, Inclusion, Participation is the must have resource for occupational therapists, occupational scientists, students and researchers. The book begins with a comprehensive review of the current literature and the knowledge generated to date. Reasons for the field's limited impact are proposed, including its focus on individuals rather than groups and communities, its psychological view of occupation, and its narrow focus on socially approved occupations. Global realities such as poverty, anti-social behaviour and ageing populations are discussed and implications for action are considered.
The second section of the books comprises a series of chapters that address the philosophical, theoretical and scientific bases that underpin and inform everyday decision making in occupational therapy practice. This is followed by a section on methodological and structural considerations. The concluding chapter offers a critical reflection on methods, strategies, values and relationships for the future, to achieve a relevant science that makes a difference to current occupational realities. Written by an internationally renowned team of contributors, this book offers a truly comprehensive critique of the field.
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• Internationally renowned Editors and contributors
• First comprehensive text on occupational science
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• Links theory to practice
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| Title of eBook: Occupational Science | |
| Release Date: 11-21-2011 | |
| Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell |
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Occupational Science
Chapter One
Introduction to critical perspectives in occupational scienceClare Hocking and Gail E. Whiteford
Introduction
Occupational Science: Society, Inclusion, Participation advances an emancipatory agenda in which we stress the power of occupation to address global population inequities. The agenda is informed by a suite of initiatives undertaken by local governments, non-government organizations and individual citizens working to improve the lives of vulnerable people. Such initiatives include, amongst others, those aimed at income creation for persons excluded from labour markets, developing safe environments following natural disasters, and reducing the impact of infectious diseases including AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria through community-based education programmes.
As occupational scientists, we have framed the ideas presented in this book relative to such global initiatives in explicitly occupational terms. Examples of populations with occupational needs include people excluded from education and work that would ensure their survival and provide the means to rise out of poverty, people participating in antisocial and self-destructive occupations, and those forced into degrading and life-threatening occupations (e.g., slave labour, forced prostitution). Examples of phenomena cast in occupational terms include:
* Environmental degradation caused through patterns of occupational participation that are inappropriate to their specific context;
* The disruption of traditional occupations in discrete communities and the corollaries of this;
* The increasing burden of caregiving in communities at on
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