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The Capabilities Approach

Book section · March 31, 2025 Cite

Ian wants to manage his money and has schizophrenia: Neuroscience facilitates our understanding of money management

Book section · January 1, 2025 The purpose of this chapter is to explore how Ian, a 25-year-old who wants to manage his money, might be affected by schizophrenia, a condition that changes how the brain perceives the world, other people, and one’s own sensory, cognitive and emotional exp ... Full text Cite

Re-viewing the Social Context of Occupation through a Theoretical Lens: Social Capital, Social Identity and Social Support – Bourdieu, Holland, and Putnam

Book section · January 1, 2025 Occupational therapy is rooted in several philosophical traditions that conceptualize human action as inherently social and inextricable from social fields (i.e., structured social spaces in which people relate and position themselves using capital). Occup ... Full text Cite

Occupational justice

Book section · 2024 The updated 14th edition presents a more realistic and inclusive focus of occupational therapy as a world-wide approach to enhancing occupational performance, participation, and quality of life. ... Cite

Occupational justice in everyday occupational therapy practice

Book section · November 11, 2016 Revision of: Occupational therapy without borders / Frank Kronenberg, Salvador Simao Algado, Nick Pollard. 2005. ... Cite

Ethnography and the transactional study of occupation

Book section · March 1, 2013 Studying occupation from a transactional perspective calls for a focus on the relationships that constitute the situation of occupation. In this chapter we discuss the fit of ethnographic processes and the transactional perspective. We propose that the eth ... Full text Cite