Crackpots and basket-cases: a history of therapeutic work and occupation

Laws, Jennifer

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“…Belief in ‘the transformative potential of doing things’ has a long legacy in the history of therapeutic work (Hocking : 149, see also Laws ). As Clare Hocking () has described, the earliest occupational therapists in the United Kingdom were guided by ‘Romantic assumptions’ of their time, principal among them the belief that patients should emotionally engage in the process of making beautiful objects.…”

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“…This conviction that patients could be transformed by the power of craft – emergent from the Arts and Crafts movement, and in direct response to the structural changes of the Industrial Revolution – were, notably, relatively eclipsed in occupational therapy following the Second World War. This resulted from the profession's efforts to align with biomedical standards and associated individualised (rather than environmental) models of impairment, as well as art therapists’ growing interest in using art as a means for psychoanalytic diagnostics (Laws , see also Hocking ).…”

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The art and nature of health: a study of therapeutic practice in museums

Mangione

2018

Sociology Health & Illness

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Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews at a major metropolitan art museum and botanic garden, this article considers the practical accomplishment of American museums' 'health turn' by tracing how museum staff develop therapeutic programmes for visitors with disabilities. In doing so, it considers one of medical sociology's fundamental theoretical questions - how ideologies of health order social life - in an unconventional empirical setting. Acknowledging contemporary arguments for both the relative merits and unintended consequences of this policy trend, I focus instead on the particular institutional arrangements, professional norms, and material cultures of art and nature that shape museums' therapeutic work, so as to reveal its effects. Data reveals ideological similarities, but practical differences, between museological and medical understandings of wellness. Extending a 'medical sociology of practice' to new contexts ultimately foregrounds the contingencies, and diversity, of therapeutic mechanisms and meanings, thereby broadening sociological research on healing and healthism.

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The art and nature of health: a study of therapeutic practice in museums

Mangione

2018

Sociology Health & Illness

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“…paid work) within society is a central aim of rehabilitation. Indeed, the high social value placed on a productive citizenry has been a fundamental driver in the development of the allied (rehabilitation-focused) health professions of physiotherapy and occupational therapy, and for specialties such as vocational rehabilitation [1][2][3]. Rehabilitation's focus on remediating impairments in order to help shape 'productive citizens' is tacitly understood to be an integral move toward supporting broader governmental goals regarding social participation, inclusiveness and enablement (and increasingly in recent years cost-containment).…”

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Problematizing ‘productive citizenship’ within rehabilitation services: insights from three studies

Fadyl

Teachman

Hamdani

2019

Disability and Rehabilitation

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Background: The idea that everyone should strive to be a 'productive citizen' is a dominant societal discourse. However, critiques highlight that common definitions of productive citizenship focus on forms of participation and contribution that many people experiencing disability find difficult or impossible to realize, resulting in marginalization. Since rehabilitation services strive for enablement, social participation, and inclusiveness, it is important to question whether these things are achieved within the realities of practice. Our aim was to do this by examining specific examples of how 'productive citizenship' appears in rehabilitation services. Methods: This article draws examples from three research studies in two countries to highlight instances in which narrow understandings of productive citizenship employed in rehabilitation services can have unintended marginalizing effects. Each example is presented as a vignette. Discussion: The vignettes help us reflect on marginalization at the level of individual, community and society that arises from narrow interpretations of 'productive citizenship' in rehabilitation services. They also provide clues as to how productive citizenship could be envisaged differently. We argue that rehabilitation services, because of their influence at critical junctures in peoples' lives, could be an effective site of social change regarding how productive citizenship is understood in wider society. ä IMPLICATIONS FOR REHABILITATION 'Productive citizenship', or the interpretation of which activities count as contributions to society, has a very restrictive definition within rehabilitation services. This restrictive definition is reflected in both policy and practices, and influences what counts as 'legitimate' rehabilitation and support, marginalizing options for a 'good life' that fall outside of it. Rehabilitation can be a site for social change; one way forward involves advocating for broader understandings of what counts as 'productive citizenship'.

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“…L'éthique suscite de plus en plus d'intérêt dans le domaine de la réadaptation, notamment en ergothérapie [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11] et en physiothérapie [12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23]. Qu'il soit question de la pratique dans le secteur public [24][25][26][27][28] ou privé [12,15,16,23,29], les enjeux éthiques de la pratique des ergothérapeutes et celle des physiothérapeutes commencent à être documentés. Cet intérêt contemporain croissant pour l'éthique appliquée aux pratiques en réadaptation peut contribuer au développement des connaissances éthiques et possiblement à l'agir éthique, c'est-à-dire au respect des exigences de l'éthique au quotidien.…”

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Les enjeux éthiques en réadaptation. Un état des lieux de la conceptualisation de notions éthiques

Goulet¹,

Drolet²

2019

bioethics

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En réadaptation, l'éthique suscite de plus en plus d'intérêt. Cela dit, peu de réflexions méta-éthiques ont, à ce jour, été menées. C'est pourquoi une recension et une analyse critique de l'usage du concept d'« enjeu éthique » s'avèrent pertinentes. Pour ce faire, une recension systématique et critique des écrits discutant d'enjeux éthiques en réadaptation a été effectuée. Cette recension, qui s'inspire de la méthode développée par McCullough et ses collaborateurs, a permis de recenser et d'analyser 80 articles. Plusieurs caractéristiques et lacunes dans la conceptualisation du concept d'enjeu éthique ont été notées. Trois principaux constats ressortent de l'étude, soit: 1) le corpus de textes étudiés est dominé par l'éthique descriptive; 2) la conceptualisation éthique y est marginale, en ceci que les concepts éthiques sont généralement énoncés sans être définis; et 3) le corpus se caractérise par l'usage d'amalgames et par la multiplication de concepts éthiques imprécis et souvent utilisés comme des synonymes alors qu'ils réfèrent à des phénomènes distincts. Ces lacunes conceptuelles occasionnent des confusions et des imprécisions conceptuelles qui peuvent nuire à la recherche en éthique, à son enseignement et au respect de l'éthique en clinique, de même que discréditer la discipline qu'est l'éthique. In rehabilitation, there is a growing interest in ethics. That said, few meta-ethical reflections have been conducted to date. Therefore, a review and critical analysis of the use of the concept of "ethical issue" is warranted. To this end, a systematic and critical review of the literature discussing ethical issues in rehabilitation was conducted. This review, based on the method developed by McCullough and colleagues, identified and analyzed 80 articles. Several characteristics and gaps in the conceptualization of the ethical issue concept were noted. Three main findings emerge from the study: 1) the corpus of texts studied is dominated by descriptive ethics; 2) ethical conceptualisation is marginal, in that ethical concepts are generally stated without being defined; and 3) the corpus is characterized by the use of amalgams and by the multiplication of imprecise ethical concepts that are often used as synonyms while referring to distinct phenomena. These conceptual gaps create conceptual confusion and imprecision that can undermine ethics research, teaching and clinical ethics, and discredit the discipline of ethics.

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Crackpots and basket-cases: a history of therapeutic work and occupation

Cited by 48 publications

References 16 publications

The art and nature of health: a study of therapeutic practice in museums

The art and nature of health: a study of therapeutic practice in museums

Problematizing ‘productive citizenship’ within rehabilitation services: insights from three studies

Les enjeux éthiques en réadaptation. Un état des lieux de la conceptualisation de notions éthiques

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