Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
Scand J Occup Ther. 2022 Jan;29(1):1-12. doi: 10.1080/11038128.2021.1895308. Epub 2021 Mar 9.
The World Federation of Occupational Therapists asserts that all occupational therapists are obligated to promote occupational rights, and has highlighted the importance of Amartya Sen's concept of 'capabilities' to the work of securing the occupational rights to which all are equally entitled.
To outline the capabilities approach and highlight its relevance and importance for the occupational therapy profession.
MATERIAL & METHODS: Drawing from Sen's work, and that of other scholars who have critiqued and adapted his capabilities approach, this paper describes the foundational components of the capabilities approach and identifies important overlaps with issues of concern to occupational therapy.
Sen's capabilities approach employs a contextualised view of human wellbeing; attending to whether people have the abilities to do the things they would value doing, whether their circumstances actually provide the real opportunities to choose to do what they would value doing.
The capabilities approach, with its attention to abilities and actions, options and opportunities, empowerment and choice, justice and participation, has clear relevance for occupational therapists.
A capabilities perspective provides a valuable framework for occupational therapists striving towards equalising people's opportunities, possibilities and choices - their capabilities - to secure their occupational rights.
世界作业治疗师联合会声明所有作业治疗师都有义务促进作业权利，并强调阿玛蒂亚·森的“能力”概念对确保所有人都平等享有的作业权利的重要性。
概述能力方法，并强调其对作业治疗专业的相关性和重要性。
本文借鉴森的著作以及其他批判性和适应性采用其能力方法的学者的著作，描述了能力方法的基本组成部分，并确定了与作业治疗关注的问题的重要重叠。
森的能力方法采用了一种关注人类福祉的背景化视角；关注人们是否具备做他们认为有价值的事情的能力，以及他们的环境是否真正提供了选择做他们认为有价值的事情的实际机会。
能力方法关注能力和行动、选择和机会、赋权和选择、正义和参与，对作业治疗师具有明显的相关性。
能力视角为努力实现平等人民的机会、可能性和选择——即他们的能力——以保障他们的作业权利的作业治疗师提供了一个有价值的框架。
