Health, the body and occupational therapy
Engelsk titel: Health, the body and occupational therapy
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Författare:
Björklund A
;
Svensson T
Språk: Eng
Antal referenser: 22
Dokumenttyp:
Artikel
UI-nummer: 00057368
Sammanfattning
The aim of this study was to identify and characterize conceptions of health in a group of experienced occupational therapists. Data collection involved the occupational therapists' personal accounts of the meaning of health and data analysis was accomplished qualitatively. The material comprised 52 distinguishable articulations of the meaning of health, which were categorized under three main themes: 22 articulations of Health as ?feeling fine?; 20 articulations of Health as ability to act; and 10 articulations of Health as an objective state of body and/or mind. The results show a very strong tendency towards holistic health conceptions and also toward a phenomenological view on the body. If this tendency were to be taken to reflect current basic views within the profession, this would indicate a movement away from biomedical frames of reference on the theoretical level. This would seem to imply consequent movements on the practice level away from organ-focused interventions to the benefit of interventions in the person/context dimension of occupational performance. Studies of processes of change seem to be needed and we suggest that a paradigm theory approach would probably be most pertinent.