Occupational Therapy Without Borders - Volume 1: Learning From The Spirit of Survivors (Occupational Therapy Essentials) - Softcover

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9780443074400: Occupational Therapy Without Borders - Volume 1: Learning From The Spirit of Survivors (Occupational Therapy Essentials)
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ISBN 10: 0443074402 ISBN 13: 9780443074400
Publisher: Churchill Livingstone, 2005

Synopsis

This landmark text challenges occupational therapists to more fully realize the profession's social vision of a more just society where disability, old age, and other marginalizing conditions and experiences are addressed by involving people in helping themselves to (re)gain the capacity and power to construct their own destinies through their participation in daily life.

The book explores the new concept of occupational apartheid - the separation between those who have meaningful, useful occupations and those who are deprived of or isolated from occupation, or who are otherwise constrained in their daily life.

All royalties from this book will go to a special fund that support the initiatives of SPIRIT OF SURVIVORS - Occupational Therapy Without Borders.

Companion volume also available - Occupational Therapies without Borders Volume 2: towards an ecology of occupation-based practice (9780702031038)

  • links philosophy with practical examples of engaging people in the ordinary occupations of daily life as a means of enabling them to transform their own lives rather than remain dependant and marginalized
  • allows the voices of survivors to be heard
  • includes contributions from worldwide leaders in occupational therpy research and practice
  • describes concrete initiatives in under-served and neglected populations
  • questions generally accepted assumptions and key concepts of the profession
  • looks at social and political mechanisms that influence people's access to useful and meaningful occupation

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About the Author

Frank Kronenberg, Lecturer in Occupational Therapy at Universities in Sweden, Denmark and Spain Joint Founders of Occupational Therapists without Borders (NGO); Salvador Simo Algado, Lecturer in Occupational Therapy, Universitat de Vic/Catalunya, Spain; and Nick Pollard, DipCOT, SRAT, MA, MSc, Senior Occupational Therapist, Research and Development Worker, Doncaster and South Humberside Healthcare NHS Trust

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Publisher
Churchill Livingstone
Publication date
2005
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0443074402
ISBN 13 
9780443074400
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
488
Editor
Kronenberg BSc(OT) BA(Ed) Frank, Pollard PhD MA MSc DipCOT FHEA Nick, Algado Salvador Simo
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