A political practice of occupational therapy / edited by Nick Pollard, Dikaios Sakellariou, Frank Kronenberg ; foreword by Hanneke van Bruggen - Edinburgh ; New York : Churchill Livingstone/Elsevier, 2009 - xxiv, 255 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index

A political practice of occupational therapy / Nick Pollard, Frank Kronenberg, Dikaios Sakellariou -- Political competence in occupational therapy / Nick Pollard, Dikaios Sakellariou, Frank Kronenberg -- When Adam dalf and Eve span : occupational literacy and democracy / Nick Pollard -- Occupational apartheid / Nick Pollard, Frank Kronenberg, Dikaios Sakellariou -- Three sites of conflict and cooperation : class, gender and sexuality / Dikaios Sakellariou, Nick Pollard -- Political challenges of holism : hetroglossia and the (im)possibility of holism / Dikaios Sakellariou, Nick Pollard -- Occupational therapy foundations for political engagement and social transformation / Gelya Frank, Ruth Zemke -- Encouraging student consciousness of the political through community fieldwork / Alison J. Beck, Karin J. Barnes -- Enacting political activities of daily living in occupational therapy education : health care disparities in Oregon / Tiffany Boggis -- Individual blame or systemic failure? Re-evaluating occupational disengagement in an indigenous community / Tamar Paluch, Shana Boltin, Linsey Howie -- Political practice in occupational therapy in Georgia : ’challenging change’ through social action / Maria Kapanadze, Medea Despotashvili, Nino Skhirtladze -- When the therapist met the evangelists : a story of the enablement of an inner-city community / Julie Coleman with Jeff and Vanessa Kirby -- The Sleaford MACA group / Catherine McNulty -- The transatlantic Fed : from individual stories of disability to collective action / Brendan Abel, Melodie Clarke, Stephen Parks -- Working with refugees and asylum seekers : challenging occupational apartheid / Richard Davies -- Illustrating occupational needs of refugees / Clarissa Wilson -- Reflections on working with South Sudanese refugees in settlement and capacity building in regional Australia / Andrina Mitchell -- Forging partnerships to address health-related needs : targeting embedded rural communities in the horseracing industry / Karin J. Opacich, Shannon K. Lizer, Peggy Goetsch -- Occupational therapy with Native American youh / Maggie Hotch-Heyman -- Postcolonial practice in occupational therapy : the Tule River tribal history project / Gelya Frank, Heather J. Kitching -- Facing the challenge : a compass for navigating the heteroglossic content / Nick Pollard, Dikaios Sakellariou

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