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- Title
Street-level Decision Making and Practising with De-colonial Intent: Practice is Political Action.
- Authors
Silcock, E. Mary
- Abstract
Occupational therapy contributes to the way healthcare and societal networks of power operate. In this critical analysis of practice in Aotearoa New Zealand, legal, economic and material networks of power have been problematised through geneaological examination of occupational therapy practice. The everyday decisionmaking of occupational therapists was significantly shaped by the economic models of healthcare delivery and the medico-legal status of being a regulated health professional. The material nature of occupational therapy was able to contest the dominance of these networks. Developing a critical consciousness of underlying normative worldviews and power relations within social structures is necessary to support societal de-colonial healing.
- Subjects
NEW Zealand; OCCUPATIONAL therapy laws; PROFESSIONAL standards; PRACTICAL politics; OCCUPATIONAL therapy; OCCUPATIONAL therapy services; DECISION making in clinical medicine; POWER (Social sciences); ARCHIVES; CORPORATE culture
- Publication
New Zealand Journal of Occupational Therapy, 2020, Vol 67, Issue 3, p31
- ISSN
1171-0462
- Publication type
Article