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This 8 page paper relates the nature of occupational therapy from a feminist perspective. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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in occupational therapy has extended from a holistic approach, one that is defined by an increasing view of occupational therapy as it corresponds with the social model for disability.
In understanding this shift, it is necessary to relate the links between the premise for occupational therapy and both medical and social models. Occupational therapy is initially based
in a medical model of disability, in which assessments are made of physical dysfunction relative to the capacity for occupational performance. Occupational therapy and practice can be related in
terms of the a rehabilitative framework linked to the development of normative standards of functioning, assessments of dependency and view of biomechanical functioning relative to the presence of a condition
that results in disability (Smith, 2001). In essence, the role of occupational therapy for physical dysfunction appears to relate directly to normative assessments of independent living capabilities, and as
a result comparative views of functioning for disabled and non-disabled people have become central to the traditional views of occupational therapy. Social theorists like Michel Foucault have related specific
issues in regards to the application of the medical model for disability and the processes that define occupational therapy for physical dysfunctions based in factors like power and physiology.
Foucault begins by assessing the way in which individual control, power and decision-making come into play for each individual. Foucault writes: "We believe in the dull constancy of
instinctual life and imagine that it continues to exert its force indiscriminately in the present as it did in the past ... We believe, in any event, that the body
obeys the exclusive laws of physiology and that it escapes the influence of history, but this too is false" (Foucault, 1977, p. 153). Foucault believed in the constancy of
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