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It is reported that the thesis section is available, to publish abstracts of postgraduate theses in the disciplinary field. Who submits your thesis, must present the title, abstract, key words (include Occupational Therapy), and a summary of 2 to 3 pages of your thesis. And `present it in Spanish, English and / or Portuguese.
Why could be difficult understand what is occupational therapy? A theoretical proposal from four perspectives.
Authors
- Daniela Olivares A. Universidad Austral de Chile
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Rodolfo Morrison J.
Departamento de Terapia Ocupacional y Ciencia de la Ocupación, Universidad de Chile
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2834-1646
- Randy Yañez R. Universidad Austral de Chile
- Jimena Carrasco M. Universidad Austral de Chile
Abstract
This article is the result of an essay developed by four occupational therapists that currently perform as academic at two Chileanuniversities.
During a round table discussion, at the Third Chilean Meeting of Student Occupational Therapy in 2014, and from their own theoretical
developments, they meet to take the challenge of explaining why it is so difficult to define what occupational therapy is.
Thus, the discussion begins with the pragmatists women’s theorist of the early twentieth century and her contributions to understand
the processes of health and disease from a holistic perspective as opposed to the dichotomous and reductionist point of view installed
by neopositivism science.
It continues with Heidegger’s ontological proposal of ‘Being and Time’ for explanation of occupation and occupational therapy,
assuming an ontological gap in the history of the profession. Then, it presents the contributions from the Actor-Network Theory and
how helps to answer the initial question, assuming that the difficulty would be the inability to translate and enroll themselves theoretical
developments to other actors.
Finally a proposal of epistemological positioning initially developed by Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela, which derives to the
paradigm of complexity, defined by Edgar Morin, is handed in.
