Can professionals actually enable occupational justice?

Townsend, Elizabeth; Marval, Rebecca

doi:10.4322/cto.2013.025

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“…There is an ethical and moral obligation for healthcare professionals to identify and address injustices in the care environments in which they work (Townsend & Marval, ). Measuring active engagement therefore, is an important step to developing interventions which address these injustices.…”

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Engagement and social interaction in dementia care settings. A call for occupational and social justice

Morgan‐Brown

Brangan

McMahon

et al. 2018

Health Soc Care Community

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As full citizens, people with dementia are entitled to engage in social and occupational activities in residential care settings. Limitation or deprivation of choice and experience of valued occupations has been described elsewhere as occupational injustice. This research frames the unmet needs of people with dementia for occupation and social interaction, as issues of human rights and citizenship. It identifies a gap in current measurement tools of engagement in residential settings and in response, presents the Assessment Tool for Occupational and Social Engagement (ATOSE) as an objective measure of engagement. It examines results from a study of five residential care settings in Ireland using the ATOSE which included 73 residents with dementia and/or enduring mental health diagnoses. Residents spent on average, 38% of their time engaged and 62% of their time not engaged while in their communal sitting rooms. The ATOSE observations supported the rights of residents as citizens to have low levels of engagement addressed. A critical gerontology lens is employed to discuss concepts of citizenship, occupational justice, and social justice in the context of this research project.

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confidence: 99%

Engagement and social interaction in dementia care settings. A call for occupational and social justice

Morgan‐Brown

Brangan

McMahon

et al. 2018

Health Soc Care Community

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“…Examples of contextual factors are national origin, ethnicity and disability. The occupational justice framework can be applied with individuals, groups, and communities (Townsend & Marval 2013 ). To date there is no literature on the applications of this framework in disability policy formulation.…”

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Analysing disability policy in Namibia: An occupational justice perspective

2018

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BackgroundThe Namibian disability policy of 1997 has not been reviewed for about 20 years, which has raised concerns with persons with disabilities and stakeholders in the fields of disability and rehabilitation. In March 2017, the government publicised its intention to review the policy. Thus, this study’s purpose was to generate evidence that can contribute to the development of a more current disability policy that will promote occupational justice.ObjectivesThe aim of the study was to develop an alternative disability policy option for Namibia and to present outcomes and trade-offs using a policy analysis approach while applying the occupational justice framework to gather evidence.MethodA qualitative research design and Bardach’s eightfold path approach to policy analysis were used. Critical disability theory provided the theoretical framework. The occupational justice framework was the conceptual framework for the study. Evidence from preceding phases of this study and appropriate literature was utilised to construct possible disability policy alternatives in Namibia, set evaluative criteria, project outcomes and confront trade-offs.ResultsThree main disability policy alternatives emerged: access policy, support policy and universal coverage policy. Access policy had the fewest trade-offs, and the support policy had the most trade-offs in the Namibian context. Access policy was projected to foster occupational participation among persons with disabilities.ConclusionResults have implications for selecting disability policy alternatives that promote occupational participation and justice among persons with disabilities in Namibia. Furthermore, the study has implications for advancing the practice of occupational justice in disability policy formulation.

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“…The education of occupational therapists has been changing around the world, with a push for new-graduates to emerge with a strong sense of social responsibility, responsiveness to contextual determinants of occupational performance and engagement, and the ability to apply this knowledge to promote social justice, occupational justice (Townsend & Marval, 2013;Sakellariou & Pollard, 2013), and citizenship (Lopes, 2016). This has been clearly reflected in the World Federation of Occupational Therapists' (WFOT) "Revised Minimum Standards for the Education of Occupational Therapists" (World Federation of Occupational Therapists, 2016).…”

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confidence: 99%