Occupational therapists can play a vital role in enabling clients to compose or re-orchestrate their occupational lives so they are able to meet their occupational needs more consistently. This role may be fulfilled by intervening directly with clients or by indirectly influencing clients' occupational lives or society at large to effect changes at an environmental or organizational level.
occupations), the fact that the existing literature base reflects the reality of a tiny proportion of the global population, and the implications of all this for the science of occupation. Several chapters draw from critical social theory to foreground, for example, the failure of occupational science to engage with macrolevel issues, such as power, politics, and economics; others address research methodologies and knowledge paradigms. Complex theories and ideas are presented clearly throughout and with ample references to encourage further reading. The book not only offers critiques but also ideas and examples of how occupational science might be done differently. The cover blurb asserts that this is ''the must-have resource for occupational therapists, occupational scientists, students and researchers,'' and the book does not disappoint. My only complaint is that the book is slim and thus leaves many occupational science assumptions unchallenged.
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