- Worldview of social occupational therapy reinforces the importance of the field and underscores the growing practice and theoretical field for global occupational therapy. - In-depth analysis of social issues is incorporated throughout the text along with a detailed analysis of the potential contributions of occupational therapists to their societies. - Focus on the social role of occupational therapy highlights the role of occupational therapy as a social profession and prepares readers to respond to social issues. - Theoretical and practical chapters talk about occupational therapy and social challenges. - Emphasis on human rights and social issues reflects the World Federation of Occupational Therapists Minimum Standards for the Education of Occupational Therapists.
Table of Contents
ForewordPresentation
Section I: Conceptual Outlines: Colors and Textures
1.�Citizenship, Rights, and Social Occupational Therapy
2.�Social Occupational Therapy in Brazil: A Historical Synthesis of the Constitution of a Field of Knowledge and Practice
3.�Occupational Therapy and Socioeconomic Processes
4.�Occupational Therapy: Social, Cultural? Diverse and Multiple!
5.�Social Context and Social Action: Generalizations and Specificities in Occupational Therapy
6.�Occupational Therapy in the Context of Social Protection Expansion
7.�Occupational Therapy and Social Assistance: Building a Critical Thinking About the Field
8.�The Theory of Communicative Action: A Theoretical-Methodological Contribution to Social Occupational Therapy
9.�Citizenship and Cultural Diversity in Management of Cultural Policies
10.�Traditional Peoples and Communities: Traditional Occupation as a Theme of Social Occupational Therapy
11.�School and Youth - Contributions of Social Occupational Therapy
12.�Social Occupational Therapy, Offenses and School:� Complex Plots in Fragile Relations
13.�Social Occupational Therapy and the Eradication of Child Labor in Brazil: The Challenge of Articulating Social Protection and Autonomy
14.�Informing Social Occupational Therapy: Unpacking the 'Social' Using Critical Social Theory
15.�Occupational Therapy on the Move: On Contextualizing Citizenships and Epistimicide
Section II: Sketches and Scenarios
Theoretical-Practical Sketches and Contemporary Scenarios: The METUIA/UFSCar Experience in Social Occupational Therapy
16.�Resources and Technologies in Social Occupational Therapy:� Actions with Poor Urban Youth
17.�Social Occupational Therapy in School: Experiences with a Student Association
18.�The Caravan for the Promotion of Rights: Disseminating and Discussing the Child and Adolescent Statute (CAS) in Schools
19.�Youth and Education: The Path Constituted by the Non-Place
20.�Paths of Life and the Marks of the Juvenile Justice System
21.�Social Occupational Therapy and the Support Contextures: An Experience Beyond Formal Devices
22.�Poor Youth and the City: Violated Rights, Denied Spaces
23.�Overcoming Invisibility: Carla's Story
24.�Social Occupational Therapy, Gender and Sexuality
25.�Activity Workshops: Exploring the Use of Digital Media by Brazilian Youths
26.�Under and Between Trees: Social Occupational Therapy in a Public Square
27.�The Planting Has Become a Plantation: Germinating Relationships to Sow Ties