A critical approach to the foundations of occupational therapy: contributions to an Alternative Occupational Therapy
Alejandro Guajardo Córdoba,
Ana Paula Serrata Malfitano
Abstract:This essay addresses, from a critical perspective of the Global South, what has been called the foundations of occupational therapy. It argues that these so-called foundations rely on certain constitutive categories that form the basis of the construction of concepts, theories, and frameworks with which the discipline operates, including mainly the notion of occupational nature, the concept of the individual, among others. These categories that support what has been referred to as the foundations of our work p… Show more
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