scholarly journals Connecting the anthropology of aging and occupational therapy/Occupational science: Interdisciplinary perspectives on patterns and meanings of daily occupation

2015 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 25-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret A Perkinson ◽  
Sherylyn Briller
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Therapy ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Occupational Science ◽  
Daily Occupation

Introduction to the special Issue on Occupational Therapy

Intersecting Disciplinary Frameworks to Improve Foster Care Transitions

2008 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 15-19
Author(s):  
Amy Paul-Ward
Keyword(s):  
Foster Care ◽  
Occupational Therapy ◽  
Knowledge Base ◽  
Clinical Outcomes ◽  
Care Transitions ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Occupational Science ◽  
Cross Training ◽  
Medical Anthropologist ◽  
Conducting Research

As a medical anthropologist teaching and conducting research in a department of occupational therapy, I am constantly challenged with considering how I can contribute to the education of clinicians, enhance the knowledge base on rehabilitation issues, and work with rehabilitation specialists to improve clinical outcomes. Over the last several years a growing number of researchers and educators have been exploring the benefits of combining anthropology, disability studies, occupational science, and occupational therapy for the purposes of cross-training and knowledge expansion. One only has to skim through the articles in this special issue to appreciate the scope and variability of these efforts.

Doing Occupational Justice: A Central Dimension of Everyday Occupational Therapy Practice

2020 ◽  
Vol 87 (2) ◽  
pp. 144-152
Author(s):  
Antoine L. Bailliard ◽  
Aaron R. Dallman ◽  
Amanda Carroll ◽  
Ben D. Lee ◽  
Susan Szendrey
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Therapy ◽  
Occupational Therapists ◽  
Everyday Practice ◽  
Science Literature ◽  
Occupational Science ◽  
Canadian Association ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Occupational Justice

Background. The Canadian Association of Occupational Therapists (CAOT) and the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA) state that occupational justice is part of the domain of occupational therapy and that occupational justice is “an aspect of contexts and environments and an outcome of intervention” (AOTA, 2014, p. S9). Key Issues. Despite the increasing focus on justice in the occupational therapy and the occupational science literature, many practitioners in traditional settings do not see its relevance to their everyday practice (Galvin, Wilding, & Whiteford, 2011) or have difficulty envisioning how to enact a justice-informed practice. Purpose. This paper demonstrates how occupational justice is germane to all settings of occupational therapy, and how it can be enacted at micro, meso, and macro levels of occupational therapy practice. Implications. We argue that occupational therapy is a justice-oriented profession at its core and will discuss how occupational justice can be enacted at all levels of practice.

The Making of Ritual Specialists: What Cultural Anthropologists can Contribute to Educating Funeral Service Practitioners

2008 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sherlyn Briller ◽  
Allison Kabel
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Therapy ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Collaborative Teaching ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Occupational Science ◽  
The Past ◽  
Health Practitioners ◽  
Funeral Service ◽  
Health Related

For the past five decades, anthropologists have taught health practitioners about how our discipline studies and addresses health-related issues. Important curricular reforms in the education of health professionals in the late 1960's and early 1970's greatly expanded such teaching roles for social scientists (Chrisman and Johnson, 1996). While anthropological teaching of certain types of health practitioners such as physicians and nurses are well-known, anthropologists' growing roles in teaching other kinds of practitioners are also being documented today. For example, the burgeoning intellectual, collaborative teaching and practice relationships between anthropology, occupational therapy and occupational science have been discussed by Frank (2007) and Frank & Zemke (2005).

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