Resources and technologies in Social Occupational Therapy: actions with the poor youth in town
The METUIA team from the Occupational Therapy Department of the Federal University of Sao Carlos – UFSCar has been elaborating procedures and resources, which have produced contributions to the action of occupational therapy based on a local and communal dimension, aiming at a locally rooted techn...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Universidade Federal de São Carlos
2014-12-01
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| Series: | Cadernos de Terapia Ocupacional |
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| Online Access: | http://doi.editoracubo.com.br/10.4322/cto.2014.081 |
| Summary: | The METUIA team from the Occupational Therapy Department of the Federal University of Sao
Carlos – UFSCar has been elaborating procedures and resources, which have produced contributions to the action of
occupational therapy based on a local and communal dimension, aiming at a locally rooted technical contribution and
directed to face the challenges of the social field. The territory notion adopted presupposes historical, economic, social
and cultural dimensions that contextualize a given geographical area where the therapeutic and occupational action
is developed. We have been dealing with questions related to the poor urban youth and working in the production
of social technologies (understood as products, techniques or replicable methodologies developed in interaction
with the community, and that represent alternatives for social transformation), which have been able to foster new
possibilities of action, integrating and articulating actions of macro and micro social scope. This article presents discussions on Workshops of Dynamics, Activities and Projects; Individual and Territorial Follow-up; Articulation
of Resources in the Social Field; and Dynamization of the Social Care Network. We support a continuous and
critical reflection on the labor process, assuming the technical, ethical and political dimensions that comprise the
professional qualification of occupational therapists. We also advocate that the practical and conceptual existence
of these technologies promotes actions associated with the social question of the lives of these young individuals,
seeking the expansion of equality, recognition of differences, and their space in the public sphere, so that more
participation can be produced with more freedom, autonomy and solidarity. |
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| ISSN: | 0104-4931 2238-2860 |