cover image - Occupational Therapies Without Borders - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 3rd Edition
ISBN: 9780443110726
Copyright: 2027
Page Count: 472
Imprint: Elsevier
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Occupational Therapies Without Borders - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 3rd Edition

by Nick Pollard, PhD, MA, MSc, DipCOT, FHEA, Ana Paula Serrata Malfitano, Dikaios Sakellariou, PhD, MSc, BSc, FHEA and Sarah Kantartzis

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Copyright: 2027
Page Count: 472
Imprint: Elsevier
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Since its first edition in 2005, Occupational Therapies Without Borders has been a key text in many of the world’s leading occupational therapy education programs. It focuses on how occupational therapists can affect positive societal change through nurturing participation parity and engagement in occupation.

This book comprehensively covers theory, methodology and practice in the context of working with different cultures and geographies. It explores occupational therapy and social class, race, disability, marginality and sexuality from a critical theory perspective, and discusses practical approaches.

The book has been fully revised to reflect emerging concerns for occupational therapy in different and health and social systems globally. It will motivate undergraduate and postgraduate occupational therapy students to explore the transformative potential of their practice.
    • Includes contributions from internationally leading experts across a range of geographical, political and linguistic contexts
    • Presents an international range of innovative ideas, theory and approaches to occupational therapy education and practice
    • Emphasises the importance of critically deconstructing and engaging with the broader context of occupation, particularly around how occupational injustices are shaped through political, economic and historical factors
    • Contributes to a decentralisation of knowledge and a recognition of anglophone education bias, feeding into the current debates about decolonisation and intersectionality in educational curricula
    • New to this edition
    • Updated content on current and future concerns, including Black Lives Matter, queer rights, COVID-19, increasing political polarisation and the rise of populism, and stresses in health and social care systems
    • New content on critical theory and how it can be utilised as a tool towards a more reflexive, politically-engaged occupational therapy
    • New chapters discussing concepts including social class, race, disability, marginality, and sexuality
  • Section 1 Critical Theory and Occupational Therapy
    1. Occupational Therapy: Building From Critical Recognition to Un-Doing Neoliberalisation
    2. Chilean Common Pots as a Situated Collective Occupation: Contributions to an Empowering and Community-Allied Occupational Therapy
    3. Resurgence of Indigenous Occupations: Walking Alongside Adivasis in India
    4. Dialogue for an Anti-Oppressive Praxis: Paulo Freire and Occupational Therapy
    5. Contributions of a Materialist Feminist Analysis to Emancipatory Occupational Therapy
    6. Occupational Therapy and Territorial-Community Approaches: Different Places in the World and the Weaving of Solidarity Networks
    7. For a Feminist Poetic Reason
    8. The Notion of Radical Inclusion Based on Social Occupational Therapy in the Education Sector
    9. Doing and Being: Understanding Occupational Therapy Through the Lens of the Capabilities Approach
    10. Occupational Therapy Informed by the Mad Justice and Neurodiversity Movements
    11. Creation of a Disability Studies Informed Approach to Occupational Therapy Education, Scholarship, and Practice
    12. Social Occupational Therapy, Social Protection, and Universalisation of Access to Rights: Social Services/Welfare as a Field of Work
    13. Centring Indigenous Knowledges to Strengthen Agency Amongst Scholars and Practitioners to Decolonise Occupational Therapy
    14. Critical Race Theory and Occupational Therapy Considerations
    15. When Quality Becomes Quantified: Pushing Back Against Modern Eugenics and Ableism for Occupational Therapy Practitioners

    Section 2 Experiences of Practice and Education Based on Critical Theories
    16. Feminism and Occupational Therapy: The Embodied Injustices of Motherhood
    17. Participation and Collective Resistance of Women With Disabilities: Lessons for a Feminist Occupational Therapy From the South
    18. Black Mothers and Their Children in the Brazilian Context: An Investigation Into the Daily Confrontation of Racism
    19. Occupational Therapy in the Encounter With Migrant Groups: The Chinese and Sub-Saharan Diasporas in Argentina From an Ethnographic Approach
    20. The Occupational Therapist as a Social Articulator: Confronting Violence and Guaranteeing the Social Rights of the LGBTQIAPN+ Population
    21. Intra- and Intergenerational Occupational Justice in the Context of the Climate Crisis: Sustainable Practices in Occupational Therapy in Clinic, Teaching, Research, and Volunteer Community Engagement
    22. Ecosocial Occupational Therapy for a Healthier and Sustainable Job Inclusion: E-GSD Case Study
    23. Therapeutic Nucleation, the Use of Metaphors, and the Importance of the Collective Community Experience in Chile Based on Ecosocial Occupational Therapy
    24. When Service Users Teach Social Occupational Therapy: Teaching Actions as a Support for Interventions
    25. The Political and Ethical Framing of Criminal Occupations in Occupational Therapy Practice
    26. Trauma-Informed Occupational Therapy With Forced Migrants: Critical Reflections on Application, Successes, and Challenges
    27. Rural Horizons in Occupational Therapy
    28. The Intersectionality of Unmet Community Mobility Needs
    29. Casting Off Enlightenment Canon: Towards a Disruptive Social Reconstructionist Education for Occupational Therapy and Occupational Science
    30. Teaching Into the Legacy of bell hooks: Creating Beloved Community in the Graduate Classroom
    31. An Emancipatory Approach to Education and Practice of Occupational Therapy
    32. Disrupting Dominant Narratives, Colonialist and Cycles of Oppression With(in) Occupational Therapy Education
    33. Fissures and Third Spaces: The Production of Decolonial Pedagogical Practices in the Education of Occupational Therapists
    34. Transformative Learning: From Adding to What Learners Know to Challenging What They Assume to Know About the Occupation
  • Nick Pollard, PhD, MA, MSc, DipCOT, FHEA, Senior Lecturer in Occupational Therapy, College of Health, Wellbeing and Life Sciences, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK, Ana Paula Serrata Malfitano, Professor, Postgraduate Program in Occupational Therapy, Occupational Therapy Department, Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil, Dikaios Sakellariou, PhD, MSc, BSc, FHEA, Associate Professor, European University Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus and Sarah Kantartzis, Honorary Professor, Division of Occupational Therapy and Arts Therapies, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, UK
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