Occupational Therapy without Borders

Introduction Section 1 - Spirit of Survivors Stories / Voices for our Future 1. A Beginning. 2. Once a Street Child, Now a Citizen of the World 3. The Right to be Blind Without Being Disabled 4. Occupation under Occupation: Days of Conflict and Curfew in Bethlehem 5. A Beginner Writer is Not a Beginner Thinker Section 2 - Philosophical and Theoretical Arguments 6. Occupational Apartheid 7. Occupational Therapy and Social Field: Clarifying Concepts and Ideas 8. The Art of Occupational Therapy: Engaging Hearts in Practice 9. A Participatory Occupation Justice Framework: Population-Based Processes of Practice Occupational therapy and society 10. Situated Meaning: An Issue of Culture, Inclusion and Occupational Therapy 11. Social Occupational Therapy: a Socio-Historical Perspective 12. The Presence of Child Spirituality: Surviving in a Marginalized World 13. Challenges for Occupational Therapy in Community-Based Rehabilitation: Occupation in a Community Approach to Handicap Development 14. The Model of Human Occupation as a Conceptual Tool for Understanding and Addressing Occupational Apartheid 15. Countering Disability-Related Marginalization Using Three Canadian Models 16. The Kawa (River) Model: Nature, Life Flow and the Power of Culturally Relevant Occupational Therapy Section 3 - Occupational Therapy Practice Without Borders 17. Connecting Health and Social Justice: A Lebanese Experience 18. Occupational Therapy Intervention with Children Survivors of War 19. Juggling with survivors in the streets of Guatemala 20. To Practice to Learn: Occupational Therapy with the Children of Viet Nam 21. Voices Talk and Hands Write 22. Transcending Practice Borders Through Perspective Transformation 23. Unlocking Spirituality: Play as a Health-Promoting Occupation in the Context of HIV/AIDS 24. Inclusive Education in Pakistan: An Occupational Therapist's Contribution to Teacher Education 25. The Return of the Corn Men: An Intervention Project with a Mayan Community of Guatamalan 'Retornos' 26. Muffled Cries of Occupational Injustices in Japanese Society 27. The Occupational Therapy International Outreach Network: Supporting Occupational Therapists Working Without Borders Section 4 - Critical Education and Research 28. Reflections on Occupational Justice as a Subtext of Occupation-Centred Education 29. Politics in Occupational Therapy Education: A South African Perspective 30. The Metuia Project in Brazil: Ideas and Actions Which Bind Us Together 31. Domestic Workers' Narratives: Transforming Occupational Therapy Practice 32. Participatory Action Research: Creating New Knowledge and Opportunities for Occupational Engagement Epilogue Bibliography Index