Jackson J
Department of Occupational Therapy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles 90033, USA.
Am J Occup Ther. 1995 Jul-Aug;49(7):669-79. doi: 10.5014/ajot.49.7.669.
This article examines how sexual orientation may be relevant to the study of occupations and the practice of occupational therapy. It is suggested that a lesbian, gay, or bisexual orientation may influence the occupations in which a person engages, the symbolic interpretation of those occupations, and the environmental contingencies of those occupations, and thus is an appropriate topic for occupational scientists to address. With the use of clinical reasoning studies and literature on authentic occupational therapy, it is argued that a person's lesbian, gay, or bisexual orientation may be relevant to the therapeutic process if therapists are to truly achieve an intersubjective understanding of the patient's world and create an environment in which the patient is able to live a meaningful life. Given this argument as a foundation, the article explores why sexual orientation may be overlooked in some of the theoretical perspectives that guide practice. The narrative perspective on identity is introduced as one potentially valuable way that occupational therapy researchers and practitioners may understand sexual orientation and its relationship to occupation. Specifically it is suggested that sexual orientation may be understood, in part, as a symbolic theme of meaning that informs values and convictions that may then be expressed in one's choice of occupations.
本文探讨性取向如何与职业研究及职业治疗实践相关。研究表明，女同性恋、男同性恋或双性恋取向可能会影响一个人所从事的职业、这些职业的象征意义以及这些职业的环境偶然性，因此是职业科学家需要探讨的一个合适话题。通过运用临床推理研究以及关于真实职业治疗的文献，有人认为，如果治疗师想要真正实现对患者世界的主体间理解，并创造一个让患者能够过上有意义生活的环境，那么一个人的女同性恋、男同性恋或双性恋取向可能与治疗过程相关。基于这一论点，本文探讨了为何在一些指导实践的理论视角中性取向可能被忽视。身份的叙事视角被引入，作为职业治疗研究人员和从业者理解性取向及其与职业关系的一种潜在有价值的方式。具体而言，有人认为性取向在一定程度上可以被理解为一种意义的象征主题，它为价值观和信念提供信息，这些价值观和信念随后可能在一个人的职业选择中得以体现。
