Occupation, well-being, and culture
This emphasizes the need to respect and be open to clients’ culturally based understandings of their lives and the impact of structural inequalities on their occupational opportunities and well-being.
What is cultural humility?
True or false: The field of OT has in the past adopted "enablement" as a core competency.
What is true?
This and its opposite inform social practices that give rise to prejudice, discrimination, and social marginalization for those whose abilities or physiques differ from socially valued, socially constructed ‘‘norms.’’
What is ableism?
Empowered people have these two things, suggesting empowerment is a relevant concept for occupational therapists.
Freedom of choice and action
This practice reflects an assumption that those theories and models developed in a Western context are applicable and relevant in other, different contexts.
What is intellectual colonialism or theoretical imperialism?
Leamy et al (2011) said this is both a motivator and an outcome of occupational engagement and is of enormous importance to the satisfaction, meaning, and quality that people experience in their lives.
What is empowerment?
This pertains not solely to ethnicity or race but to any dimension of diversity, including class, gender, sexual orientation, and ability.
What is culture?
According to Hammell, this problematic process asserts an inherent inequality between the therapist and client.
What is enablement?
Critical thinking, awareness of one’s own assumptions, beliefs, values, and biases and understanding how these views might differ from those of other people are qualities associated with this cultural ideal.
What is cultural competence?
The central tenet of the ___ approach defines ___ not as a set of physical or cognitive abilities but as the freedom, or opportunity, to choose what individuals wish to do and to be and the opportunity to act on these wishes.
What are capabilities?