Self-Care, Productivity, and Leisure, or Dimensions of Occupational Experience? Rethinking Occupational “Categories”

Hammell, Karen R Whalley

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“…According to Hammell (2009), engaging in meaningful activities contributes to a person's sense of purpose and well-being, and, through providing opportunities to demonstrate competency, adds to one's feeling of self-worth. Meaningful activities reflect who we are as a person and are sources of pleasure, satisfaction, and personal expression (B.…”

Section: Engagement In Meaningful Activitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Psychosocial Characteristics of Student Veterans with Service-Related Disabilities: Implications for Further Research and Occupational Therapy Involvement

Dutra

Eakman

Schelly

2016

Occupational Therapy in Mental Health

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PSYCHOSOCIAL CHARACTERISTICS OF STUDENT VETERANS WITH SERVICE-RELATED DISABILITIES: IMPLICATIONS FOR FURTHER RESEARCH AND OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY INVOLVEMENTThe purpose of this study was to assess how post-9/11 university student veterans differ from nonveteran university students on four mental health indicators. In comparison to a demographically matched sample of nonveteran students, we found that veterans in our study had significantly higher levels of depression and post-traumatic stress symptomatology and nonsignificantly lower levels of engagement in meaningful activities and meaning in life. Our nonexperimental study indicates mental health differences between student veterans and their nonveteran peers do exist and argues for the inclusion of occupational therapy services for student veterans.iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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Section: Engagement In Meaningful Activitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Psychosocial Characteristics of Student Veterans with Service-Related Disabilities: Implications for Further Research and Occupational Therapy Involvement

Dutra

Eakman

Schelly

2016

Occupational Therapy in Mental Health

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“…Occupations are conceptualized as vehicles for health, well-being, and social inclusion that are continuously "shaped, embedded, and negotiated within, as well as contributing to the shaping of, social systems and structures" [33] (p. 55). While the occupation of work is often prioritized within Western societies given its economic value and it ties to identity and social status [34], other types of occupations-such as caring for children, other family or friends; procuring and preparing food; maintaining one's home; or socializing through activities-are also essential and meaningful parts of daily life. Applying a critical occupational perspective ensures attention to taken-for-granted assumptions about the multi-faceted occupations that comprise daily life, including and beyond activities directly associated with looking for and securing work.…”

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“Activated, but Stuck”: Applying a Critical Occupational Lens to Examine the Negotiation of Long-Term Unemployment in Contemporary Socio-Political Contexts

Rudman

Aldrich

2016

Societies

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Abstract:Background: Solutions for the problem of long-term unemployment are increasingly shaped by neoliberally-informed logics of activation and austerity. Because the implications of these governing frameworks for everyday life are not well understood, this pilot study applied a critical occupational science perspective to understand how long-term unemployment is negotiated within contemporary North American socio-political contexts. This perspective highlights the implications of policy and employment service re-configurations for the range of activities that constitute everyday life. Methods: Using a collaborative ethnographic community-engaged research approach, we recruited eight people in Canada and the United States who self-identified as experiencing long-term unemployment. We analyzed interviews and observation notes concerning four participants in each context using open coding, critical discourse analysis, and situational analysis. Results: This pilot study revealed a key contradiction in participants' lives: being "activated, but stuck". This contradiction resulted from the tension between individualizing, homogenizing frames of unemployment and complex, socio-politically shaped lived experiences. Analysis of this tension revealed how participants saw themselves "doing all the right things" to become re-employed, yet still remained stuck across occupational arenas. Conclusion: This pilot study illustrates the importance of understanding how socio-political solutions to long-term unemployment impact daily life and occupational engagement beyond the realm of job seeking and job acquisition.

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“…Current debates about practices and the construction of a diversity of foundations clearly puts the mono-cultural view of occupational therapy into question 9,18,19,20,21,27,31,32,33 .…”

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“…Critical here means questioning the method of thinking as the main aspect of knowledge construction. To be critical is to interrogate the assumptions of occupational therapy, questioning that which is considered the obvious and the natural 9,27,31,32,33 . Critical, is not only thinking about the political, ethical and economic issues that are affecting the community and the implications for occupational therapy, but also involves questioning from where, which and how knowledge emerges, i.e.…”

Section: Emerging Southern Epistemologiesmentioning

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“…However, the ethical and political dimensions of occupational therapy have been denied, subtracted from the foundation of occupational therapy. Subtracted by rigorous militancy, by the needs of professional associations and unions, and the need for social legitimacy of being a positivist scientific discipline 33 . The scientific foundation that has dominated us is a-historic, a-septic, and neutral.…”

Section: Emerging Southern Practicesmentioning

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Southern occupational therapies: Emerging identities, epistemologies and practices

Guajardo

Kronenberg²,

Ramugondo

2015

S. Afr. j. occup. ther

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For over a decade, debates in occupational therapy have extended into the profession's theoretical foundations as well as epistemological underpinnings thereof A series of proposals have emerged from around the world that aim to link the definition of occupational therapy, its knowledge and practices to contemporary social, political, cultural and economic conditions. Contributing to this is the increasing precariousness of the global social life, the economic crises of many social systems, and the deterioration of the ecological environment. The current paper critically reflects on the historical conditions that shape the institution of occupational therapy, particularly in the regions of South America and Africa. This involves a political, ethical, and epistemological rethinking of the foundations that underpin identities, knowledge and practices of occupational therapy and their effects on society. These foundations may favour processes of exclusion and ahistorical and individualist views of human occupation, as opposed to social perspectives expressed in collective occupations and human rights promoting practices. The authors propose to problematise the construction of a professional identity, knowledge and practices of occupational therapy, emphasising the need for a liberating discipline, committed to and acting alongside people and communities who are in situations of social exclusion. This implies the necessary positioning of occupational therapy within social transformation. Key words: Southern, critical, epistemologies, human occupation, human rights

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Self-Care, Productivity, and Leisure, or Dimensions of Occupational Experience? Rethinking Occupational “Categories”

Abstract: If occupational therapists enabled diverse clients'perspectives to inform occupational categories, perhaps relationships between occupations and well-being might more easily be identified in theory and addressed in practice.

Cited by 184 publications

References 48 publications

Psychosocial Characteristics of Student Veterans with Service-Related Disabilities: Implications for Further Research and Occupational Therapy Involvement

Psychosocial Characteristics of Student Veterans with Service-Related Disabilities: Implications for Further Research and Occupational Therapy Involvement

“Activated, but Stuck”: Applying a Critical Occupational Lens to Examine the Negotiation of Long-Term Unemployment in Contemporary Socio-Political Contexts

Southern occupational therapies: Emerging identities, epistemologies and practices

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