Occupational therapy perspectives from the southern hemisphere

Asian Journal of Occupational Therapy, 2009

The World Federation of Occupational Therapists (WFOT), with 65 country members, is a dynamic and proactive organization as demonstrated by the tremendous level of activity and project work presently taking place. Reflections on international involvements of WFOT as well as present and future global projects taking place within the WFOT are described.

South African Journal of Occupational Therapy, 2021

BACKGROUND: The contemporary perspectives of occupational therapy in Latin America focus on an epistemic, political, and plural field under construction and in dispute. It is about the notions of knowing and doing designed to appoint the theoretical and methodological aspects that support the reading and intervention of the complex realities PURPOSE: This paper explores a glocal dialogue about the production and dissemination of knowledge in occupational therapy in Latin America KEY ISSUES: The dialogue includes issues and trends in the global scientific and social scenario, without neglecting aspects of different local realities around the world. By focusing on the profession in Latin America, using different perspectives, such as Critical Occupational Therapy; Occupational Therapy and Social Issues; Occupational Therapy and Culture; Territory and Community Occupational Therapy; Southern Occupational Therapies; and Occupational Science in Latin America. It further discusses the rel...

World Federation of Occupational Therapists Bulletin, 1998

President's Report The All India Occupational Therapy Association (AIOTA) invited the Executive members to hold their interim meeting in New Delhi, and they arranged their own AIOTA Executive Meeting to coincide with this event so that we could all meet. Executive members took the opportunity to travel to make visits to nearby countries: Barbara Tyldesley, President, was invited to the Sri Lanka Society of Occupational Therapists and the Schools of Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy in Colombo. Carolyn Webster, Secretary, was invited to visit the Pakistan Association of Occupational Therapists and the School of Occupational Therapy in Karachi. Nathan Vytialingam and Anne Spencer, 2nd and 1st Vice Presidents, were invited to visit the Medical School in Nepal with a view to discussing the possibility of starting an occupational therapy school and service in Katmandu. Sri Lanka The visit to Sri Lanka had a very dense and exciting timetable. I was met at the airport by Nimal Liyanage, the AIOTA Delegate to WFOT, and a delegation. I was taken to Kandy, 113 miles away from Colombo. An interesting drive, the countryside was very similar to Malaysia, and the driving was amazing. Even though the roads were relatively narrow and everyone prefers to be in the middle of the road, there is unfailing courtesy and the ability to move over when necessary. Next afternoon, we went to the Ragama Rehabilitation and Rheumatology Hospital run by Dr Lalith Wijaranata. The occupational therapists and the rest of the multidisciplinary team are doing

World Federation of Occupational Therapists Bulletin, 2000

Occupational therapists know that culture is relevant to their work, but have failed to understand that while they share a professional foundation, practice cannot assume uniformity, given the cultural uniqueness of different contexts. A discussion of why culture matters forms the basis for appreciating the cultural identity of the profession, which unifies around a belief in the power and positive potential of occupation to transform people's lives. This is the profession's 'essence'. Examples from South Africa are used to show that previous epistemologies must be challenged, and assumptions, values and beliefs adjusted in order to match cultural needs. As people's 'being' is shaped by the culture within which they are situated, the collective cultural practices or 'doing' of occupational therapy should be diversified across the globe. Service options that are driven by these perspectives are suggested as ways of giving due recognition to cultural needs and people's right to occupationally fulfilled lives.

World Federation of Occupational Therapists Bulletin

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2020

In the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago the full range of physical, mental, psychological, and socially derived problems of occupational engagement exist. Occupational therapy is often a part of the health care team to address these challenges; however, the profession is at an emergent stage in the country. This paper describes a process used for the development of an indigenous entry-level master's degree program in occupational therapy. The process was also supported and enhanced by the collaborative relationships among key stakeholders, including global partners. A qualitative design process was used to analyze the health care needs, barriers, and strategies that impact the sustainability of the proposed program. This included 47 survey respondents, 10 semi-structured interviews, and a focus group. The findings led to the development of curricular threads that informed the curricular framework of the program. The curricular framework will safeguard the sustainability of the program and the clinical relevance of its content and methods relative to the community the graduates will serve. Systematic review of curricular design and program outcomes is needed to enhance the intended learning experience of the occupational therapy students.

The American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 2006

Revista de Estudios Sociales No.35, 2016

This paper explores Occupational Therapy (OT) interventions using a dialogical perspective with therapists and people with functional diversity. 1 Framing the dialogue between the discourses that participate in the therapeutic process, the paper reflexively explores the interferences in the forms of subjectivity that the discipline promotes under the governmental umbrella. The research uses ethnographic and narrative material as the basis of its methodology. The material suggests that OT, like other health disciplines, constitutes a governmental mechanism of bodily regulation that produces subjectification through certain procedures: distributing persons in space, regulating their use of time, and perfecting their performance of activities. The reflection allows us to reconsider the construction of the "patient" in OT interventions considering the rights of persons with functional diversity. K E Y WO R D S | Occupational therapy (Thesaurus); subjectification, governmentality (Author´s Keywords). * The publication presented forms part of the doctoral research project, "Terapia Ocupacional: una disciplina para la autonomía. Prácticas y discursos de subjetividad y gubernamentalidad en torno a una ciencia emergente," financed by the Beca Presidente de la República, of the Government of Chile. The material in this document includes results of the research conducted as part of the author's doctoral thesis. We would like to thank the doctoral thesis committee of the School of Social Psychology of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona for their helpful commentary. The findings were also presented at the Second Qualitative Research Encounter in Bío-Bío (2012), Chile. We would like to thank Profs. Soledad Martínez and Bruno Bivort, who organized the Encounter, for inviting us to present these findings. ** PhD in Social Psychology from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain). Professor at the Universidad de Chile, she belongs to the disability research line of the Department of Occupational Therapy and Occupation Science of the University of Chile and is a member of the Fractals in Critical Research group of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Her most recent publications include: Configuración de subjetividad en mujeres en situación de discapacidad: un abordaje desde discapacidad, cuerpo y género" (co-author). Revista Chilena de Terapia Ocupacional 15 (1): 33-44, 2015 and "Cuerpo, discapacidad y prácticas institucionales: Una visión crítica de su evolución histórica en Chile" (co-author). Revista Chilena de Terapia Ocupacional 14 (2): 107-117, 2014.

Creative Education, 2015

The formation of Occupational Therapists has become the subject of analysis and debate in recent decades after several changes in health policies in Brazil, among them the implementation of the National Curriculum Guidelines (NCGs) directing teaching practices in line with the Health Unic System and International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF). Given these paradigms, the Occupational Therapy courses passed with several adjustments in their course of pedagogical political projects (PPPs) and their teaching practices. The study's goal was to characterize the Occupational Therapy courses and analyze their PPPs focusing on changes in the health care model and the inclusion of ICF. The research was exploratory and was conducted through documentary analysis. By 2013 there were 63 occupational therapy courses working in the country, 44 in private institutions and 19 in public, demonstrating a lack of supply in public. The Occupational Therapy courses are still guided by the biomedical model, and the applicability of the ICF as well as the insertion of the biopsychosocial model are incipient in teaching practice.