Globalization and occupation therapy - a continued musing.
I have been talking about the implications of globalization on the occupational therapy profession for quite some time - it started off withblog posts here and then apresentation at OT24VX in 2015. Then I gave the topic a whole chapter inmy theory textbook in 2019. Then there were more blog postshereandhere.In sum, I am uncertain if occupational therapy is a unitary global profession, although I now add this caveat:at least as understood in the publications of academics. I add this caveat now because I am uncertain if the things that people in academia write about truly reflects actual practice in other countries. I know that in the United States there is some academic scholarship that is highly relevant to practice, and other scholarship that leaves me wondering if I am an occupational therapist according to the way some suggest that practice should be constructed.So for example I read the Canadian Journal and wonder if everyday practitioners are functioning in 'change agent roles' as described or if I would be more likely to find someone providing traditional OT to a worker who injured their hand in the Alberta oil sands so they can resume their occupational roles. I am unsure. I know that in the US I am more likely to find practitioners doing very pragmatic and traditional things in traditional health and educational/community settings - and that social/occupational justice ' work ' on a population level is actually quite rare (excep...
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