Occupational therapy in Latin America: Conceptual discussions on territory and community

Bianchi, Pamela Cristina; Malfitano, Ana Paula Serrata

doi:10.1080/11038128.2020.1842492

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“…These approaches considered local context, privileged community voices, and engaged communities in designing and solution while focusing on grassroots movements, which met non‐urban needs. These few publications represent a large tradition of counter‐hegemonic and praxis‐based epistemologies among occupational therapists in the Global South (e.g., Souza et al, 2021 ; Bianchi & Malfitano, 2022 ; Córdoba, 2021 ; Correia et al, 2021 ; Dos Santos, 2017 , 2022 ; Lopes & Malfitano, 2021 ; Monzeli et al, 2021 ; Paganizzi, 2007 ).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Southern occupational therapists have engaged in counter‐hegemonic, territorial (geographically considerate), and community‐focussed therapies for over 30 years (Bianchi & Malfitano, 2022 ). While initially enveloped in Northern biomedical models, Southern occupational therapies evolved in place as a resistive response to recognised local realities of social inequity (Díaz‐Leiva & Malfitano, 2021 ).…”

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Extension, austerity, and emergence: Themes identified from a global scoping review of non‐urban occupational therapy services

Hayes

Santos

Costigan

et al. 2022

Aus Occup Therapy J

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Introduction: Rural communities contribute to national wellbeing, identities, economies, and social fabrics yet experience increased risk of mortality, morbidity, and disability, coupled with lower levels of income, formal education, and employment than urban citizens. Despite higher need, occupational therapy services are maldistributed to urban locations. Publications about nonurban services discuss predominantly outreach-based, individualist, rehabilitation for specified diagnoses/age groups. However, given this population level inequity, it is unclear why individualist focussed services are more commonly discussed. Understanding intentions expressed in publications about nonurban service design may identify assumptions/limitations to current approaches and contribute to improved future services. Methods: Each of 117 publications identified in a scoping review was read by two reviewers to independently identify themes. Provisional themes were discussed and modified in an iterative process to develop final themes/subthemes.The first author reinterrogated the publications and coded data to identify relevant examples to support the identified themes. Results: Three key themes and nine subthemes were identified. Hegemonic perspectives were found in the themes (i) Extension of urban practice and (ii) Austerity, particularly in the Global North. Non-urban services were typically extended to non-urban contexts underpinned by austerity and neoliberal values such that non-urban persons and their context were problematised rather than service or funding design. A counter-hegemonic perspective was found in the theme (iii) Responses to situational realities more commonly in Global South publications, which valued non-urban contexts, and focussed on developing non-urban communities and promoting justice.

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Extension, austerity, and emergence: Themes identified from a global scoping review of non‐urban occupational therapy services

Hayes

Santos

Costigan

et al. 2022

Aus Occup Therapy J

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“…O primeiro desafio consistiu em identificar profissionais e práticas territoriais e comunitárias para a observação participante. Para tanto, na primeira fase da pesquisa doutoral, foram realizadas revisão conceitual da literatura e entrevistas semiestruturadas com as duas autoras mais recorrentes nas publicações de cada país (Bianchi & Malfitano, 2021). Nas entrevistas, foi solicitada às autoras a indicação de práticas e/ou terapeutas ocupacionais que considerassem, em seu entendimento, bons exemplos de atuação territorial e comunitária.…”

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Atuação profissional de terapeutas ocupacionais em países latino-americanos: o que caracteriza uma ação territorial-comunitária?

Bianchi

Malfitano

2022

Cad. Bras. Ter. Ocup.

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Resumo O estudo objetivou identificar como os conceitos território e comunidade se expressam na prática do terapeuta ocupacional e quais dimensões caracterizam uma ação territorial e comunitária nos países Argentina, Brasil, Chile e Colômbia. Os termos território e comunidade se inserem nas relações políticas, econômicas e sociais estabelecidas no modelo capitalista de produção. Na terapia ocupacional, foram incorporados em decorrência de eventos políticos, sociais e econômicos nos diferentes países, como uma forma de unir a crítica sobre a realidade social às práticas profissionais. O presente artigo traz parte dos resultados de uma pesquisa doutoral, em que foram realizados quatro estudos de caso social, utilizando observação participante e entrevistas semiestruturadas com atores sociais das experiências acompanhadas, nos quatro países investigados. Os resultados destacaram cinco estratégias que caracterizam ação territorial-comunitária na terapia ocupacional latino-americana: a atuação implicada no coletivo e nas relações sociais; a tessitura de redes formais e informais; a construção de vínculos através do uso das atividades; a horizontalidade e disponibilidade nas relações; e as estratégias para lidar com a vulnerabilidade social nos âmbitos micro e macrossocial. Conclui-se que os termos território e comunidade são utilizados de forma articulada nas práticas profissionais, o que pressupõe a reflexão sobre os modos de vida dos sujeitos e as relações que eles estabelecem com seus espaços de vida, tendo a tessitura de redes de solidariedade nos lugares como uma das finalidades da ação técnica.

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“…These processes will enable occupational therapists to leave institutions, assuming territory, (urban and rural spaces, public and private spaces) as organising elements of a more socially engaged reasoning. This happened, therefore, from new theoretical readings of Sociology, Anthropology, Philosophy, as well as the creation of more situated methodological tools to operate the territory and community, as a sociocultural phenomenon of production of meanings and forms of collective organization in a given territory 36 . It is in this sense that the literature on Occupational Therapy in Latin America demonstrates a strong convergence of territory and community related to intervention aimed at social participation 37 .…”

Section: Territory and Community Occupational Therapymentioning

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Contemporary Perspectives of Occupational Therapy in Latin America: Contributions to the Glocal Dialogue

Correia

Wertheime²,

Morrison

et al. 2021

S. Afr. j. occup. ther.

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BACKGROUND: The contemporary perspectives of occupational therapy in Latin America focus on an epistemic, political, and plural field under construction and in dispute. It is about the notions of knowing and doing designed to appoint the theoretical and methodological aspects that support the reading and intervention of the complex realities PURPOSE: This paper explores a glocal dialogue about the production and dissemination of knowledge in occupational therapy in Latin America KEY ISSUES: The dialogue includes issues and trends in the global scientific and social scenario, without neglecting aspects of different local realities around the world. By focusing on the profession in Latin America, using different perspectives, such as Critical Occupational Therapy; Occupational Therapy and Social Issues; Occupational Therapy and Culture; Territory and Community Occupational Therapy; Southern Occupational Therapies; and Occupational Science in Latin America. It further discusses the relationship between the theoretical perspectives and the coloniality of knowledge in occupational therapy and the contradictions based on neoliberal models in the production and dissemination of knowledge CONCLUSION: The hegemonic neoliberal model and the glocalisation theoretical framework appeared to support and circumvent the production of scientific knowledge in occupational therapy, and placed Latin America on the periphery of the global debate Keywords: professional practice of occupational therapy; theoretical framework, theoretical perspective, coloniality of knowledge, critical occupational therapy, occupational science.

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Occupational therapy in Latin America: Conceptual discussions on territory and community

Cited by 7 publications

References 34 publications

Extension, austerity, and emergence: Themes identified from a global scoping review of non‐urban occupational therapy services

Extension, austerity, and emergence: Themes identified from a global scoping review of non‐urban occupational therapy services

Atuação profissional de terapeutas ocupacionais em países latino-americanos: o que caracteriza uma ação territorial-comunitária?

Contemporary Perspectives of Occupational Therapy in Latin America: Contributions to the Glocal Dialogue

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