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OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY WITHOUT BORDERS
Occupational Therapy Without BordersLearning From The Spirit of Survivors
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Edited By
Franciscus Kronenberg, BSc(OT), BA(Ed), International Guest Lecturer in Occupational Therapy, Cape Town, South Africa
Salvador Simo Algado, Lecturer in Occupational Therapy, Universitat de Vic/Catalunya, Spain
Nick Pollard, DipCOT, SRAT, MA, MSc, Senior Lecturer in Occupational Therapy, School of Health and Social Care, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK

Description
This landmark book challenges occupational therapists to examine the generally accepted assumptions and key concepts of their profession by looking at the social and political mechanisms that influence people's access to useful and meaningful occupations. It also explores the new idea of occupational apartheid – the separation between those who have meaningful, useful occupations and those who are deprived of, isolated from, or otherwise constrained in their daily life.

Audience
Primary market: Occupational therapy undergraduate and postgraduate students internationally. Faculty lecturers on occupational therapy courses. Practicing occupational therapists.
The World Federation of Occupational Therapists has 126,000 members. There are approximately 429 accredited training programmes.
Secondary market: community development workers; rehabilitation workers, social activists, international development agencies, self-help groups and grassroots organisations, NGOs, voluntary agencies.

Contents


Introduction Section 1 – Spirit of Survivors Stories / Voices for our Future
1. A Beginning? 2. Once a Street Child, Now a Citizen of the World 3. The Right to be Blind Without Being Disabled 4. Occupation under Occupation: Days of Conflict and Curfew in Bethlehem 5. A Beginner Writer is Not a Beginner Thinker

Section 2 – Philosophical and Theoretical Arguments
6. Occupational Apartheid 7. Occupational Therapy and Social Field: Clarifying Concepts and Ideas 8. The Art of Occupational Therapy: Engaging Hearts in Practice 9. A Participatory Occupation Justice Framework: Population-Based Processes of Practice Occupational therapy and society 10. Situated Meaning: An Issue of Culture, Inclusion and Occupational Therapy 11. Social Occupational Therapy: a Socio-Historical Perspective 12. The Presence of Child Spirituality: Surviving in a Marginalized World 13. Challenges for Occupational Therapy in Community-Based Rehabilitation: Occupation in a Community Approach to Handicap Development 14. The Model of Human Occupation as a Conceptual Tool for Understanding and Addressing Occupational Apartheid 15. Countering Disability-Related Marginalization Using Three Canadian Models 16. The Kawa (River) Model: Nature, Life Flow and the Power of Culturally Relevant Occupational Therapy

Section 3 – Occupational Therapy Practice Without Borders
17. Connecting Health and Social Justice: A Lebanese Experience 18. Occupational Therapy Intervention with Children Survivors of War 19. Juggling with survivors in the streets of Guatemala 20. To Practice to Learn: Occupational Therapy with the Children of Viet Nam 21. Voices Talk and Hands Write 22. Transcending Practice Borders Through Perspective Transformation 23. Unlocking Spirituality: Play as a Health-Promoting Occupation in the Context of HIV/AIDS 24. Inclusive Education in Pakistan: An Occupational Therapist?s Contribution to Teacher Education 25. The Return of the Corn Men: An Intervention Project with a Mayan Community of Guatamalan ?Retornos? 26. Muffled Cries of Occupational Injustices in Japanese Society 27. The Occupational Therapy International Outreach Network: Supporting Occupational Therapists Working Without Borders

Section 4 – Critical Education and Research
28. Reflections on Occupational Justice as a Subtext of Occupation-Centred Education 29. Politics in Occupational Therapy Education: A South African Perspective 30. The Metuia Project in Brazil: Ideas and Actions Which Bind Us Together 31. Domestic Workers? Narratives: Transforming Occupational Therapy Practice 32. Participatory Action Research: Creating New Knowledge and Opportunities for Occupational Engagement

Epilogue Bibliography Index


Bibliographic details
Paperback, 360 pages, publication date: DEC-2004
ISBN-13: 978-0-443-07440-0
ISBN-10: 0-443-07440-2
Imprint: CHURCHILL LIVINGSTONE


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Last update: 27 Sep 2008
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