Townsend E
School of Occupational Therapy, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Can J Occup Ther. 1993 Oct;60(4):174-84. doi: 10.1177/000841749306000403.
Occupational therapy has tremendous, unfulfilled potential. The lecture critically analyzes that potential in light of occupational therapy's social vision. The analysis is built on emerging views of occupational therapy's core philosophy of client-centered practice using the ordinary occupations of daily life as a form of therapy. Critical analysis shows that foundational features of occupational therapy are consistent with foundational features of social justice. However, analysis also shows that occupational therapy's social vision is narrowed to comply with dominant community, managerial and medical approaches to disability and aging. Given therapists' good intentions, critical analysis is unnerving, but it provides a guide for transforming practice and developing occupational therapy's potential.
职业疗法有着巨大却未被实现的潜力。本次讲座根据职业疗法的社会愿景对这一潜力进行了批判性分析。该分析基于职业疗法以日常生活中的普通活动作为治疗形式的以客户为中心的核心实践理念的新观点。批判性分析表明，职业疗法的基本特征与社会正义的基本特征是一致的。然而，分析也表明，职业疗法的社会愿景被缩小，以符合主流社区、管理和医学对残疾与老龄化的处理方式。尽管治疗师们初衷良好，但批判性分析令人不安，不过它为转变实践和挖掘职业疗法的潜力提供了指导。
