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History, concepts and proposals on social occupational therapy in Brazil

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  • Roseli Esquerdo L. Universidad Federal de San Carlos
  • Ana Paula Malfitano Universidad Federal de San Carlos
  • Carla Regina Silva Universidad Federal de San Carlos
  • Patricia Borba Universidad Federal de San Paulo
Vol. 15 No. 1 (2015): Agosto
https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-5346.2015.37132

Abstract

This article presents a historical constitution of Social Occupational Therapy in Brazil, resulting from a process that has configured it as a complex field with limitations, which develops technologies and actions that aim to cope with issues arising from the inequalities that emerge from social contradictions in capitalist societies. Initially, we discuss the variations of the theoretical and methodological understanding in professional discourse regarding the social aspect; after that, we outline the basic theoretical perspectives that have supported and sustained the propositions of this area. We report some aspects - national and international – presented by authors that have underlined social demands for occupational therapy, as well as those presented by authors living in Brazil who advocate a social occupational therapy. Finally, taking part of our experiences with the METUIA Project, which gathers activities of education, research and extension in this field, and it is developed in four different Brazilian universities, we present how we have coped with issues related to a particular group – the poor urban youth, and worked in the production of social technologies on social occupational therapy which, from our standpoint, have been able to foster new opportunities for therapeutic-occupational activities, integrating and articulating actions of macro and micro scopes.

Keywords:

Occupational Therapy/Trends, Social Occupational Therapy/History, Social Occupational Therapy/Propositions, Occupational Therapy/Social Issues

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Esquerdo L., R., Malfitano, A. P., Silva, C. R., & Borba, P. (2015). History, concepts and proposals on social occupational therapy in Brazil. Revista Chilena De Terapia Ocupacional, 15(1), 73–84. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-5346.2015.37132
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Revista Chilena de Terapia Ocupacional
Facultad de Medicina
Universidad de Chile
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