Pub Date : 2023-09-19DOI: 10.1080/14427591.2023.2259034
{"title":"Special issue: Situated occupation in everyday life: Towards environmental, economic, social inclusiveness and sustainability","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/14427591.2023.2259034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14427591.2023.2259034","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51542,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Occupational Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135016118","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-11DOI: 10.1080/14427591.2023.2253802
Sandra Brooks, Sarah Reynolds
This study aimed to narrow the gap in understanding the health and well-being effects of becoming through occupation by exploring the concept of becoming through yoga practitioners’ perspectives. Four participants from the Southwest of England were recruited to engage in one-to-one semi-structured interviews concentrated on perspectives of transformation; that is, becoming, from their viewpoint as yoga practitioners. Qualitative interpretative phenomenological analysis brought about rich, in-depth accounts of the lived experiences of becoming, revealing the nature of becoming for a yogi, how yoga impacted their identity formation, and tensions between the Western definitions of becoming and yoga. The findings uncovered three themes: mapping self through time and yoga practice, transformed health and well-being through doing yoga, and strengthened connections through being a yogi. The findings support the significance of yoga as an occupation that elicits becoming through personal transformations despite the potential for adverse effects, such as insecurity and Western conformity pressures. Yogis’ depictions of becoming differed from the Western occupational paradigm of becoming, as highlighted by participants’ concentration on self-acceptance versus active self-promotion. For yoga practitioners, becoming involved receptivity and reinforced inner resilience. Further research is warranted on how the effects of becoming manifest across different meaningful occupations and diverse cultural backgrounds.
{"title":"The exploration of <i>becoming</i> as a yoga practitioner and its impact on identity formation, health, and well-being","authors":"Sandra Brooks, Sarah Reynolds","doi":"10.1080/14427591.2023.2253802","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14427591.2023.2253802","url":null,"abstract":"This study aimed to narrow the gap in understanding the health and well-being effects of becoming through occupation by exploring the concept of becoming through yoga practitioners’ perspectives. Four participants from the Southwest of England were recruited to engage in one-to-one semi-structured interviews concentrated on perspectives of transformation; that is, becoming, from their viewpoint as yoga practitioners. Qualitative interpretative phenomenological analysis brought about rich, in-depth accounts of the lived experiences of becoming, revealing the nature of becoming for a yogi, how yoga impacted their identity formation, and tensions between the Western definitions of becoming and yoga. The findings uncovered three themes: mapping self through time and yoga practice, transformed health and well-being through doing yoga, and strengthened connections through being a yogi. The findings support the significance of yoga as an occupation that elicits becoming through personal transformations despite the potential for adverse effects, such as insecurity and Western conformity pressures. Yogis’ depictions of becoming differed from the Western occupational paradigm of becoming, as highlighted by participants’ concentration on self-acceptance versus active self-promotion. For yoga practitioners, becoming involved receptivity and reinforced inner resilience. Further research is warranted on how the effects of becoming manifest across different meaningful occupations and diverse cultural backgrounds.","PeriodicalId":51542,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Occupational Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135938502","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-07DOI: 10.1080/14427591.2023.2248619
Jesper Larsen Maersk
{"title":"Uncovering personal meaning construction through occupation from a psychoanalytic perspective","authors":"Jesper Larsen Maersk","doi":"10.1080/14427591.2023.2248619","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14427591.2023.2248619","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51542,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Occupational Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42925751","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-06DOI: 10.1080/14427591.2023.2248130
Tatiana Maria Marques Tironi, Maria João Leote de Carvalho, A. F. Drummond, L. Costa
{"title":"Social inequalities portrayed in the occupational experiences of girls ahead of incarceration in Brazil","authors":"Tatiana Maria Marques Tironi, Maria João Leote de Carvalho, A. F. Drummond, L. Costa","doi":"10.1080/14427591.2023.2248130","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14427591.2023.2248130","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51542,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Occupational Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47026392","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-05DOI: 10.1080/14427591.2023.2248607
Alexia Bystrzycki, N. Kiepek
{"title":"Criminalization of occupation: Articulating a legal perspective within occupational science","authors":"Alexia Bystrzycki, N. Kiepek","doi":"10.1080/14427591.2023.2248607","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14427591.2023.2248607","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51542,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Occupational Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47439091","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-04DOI: 10.1080/14427591.2023.2248135
I. Wenger, H. Lynch, M. Prellwitz, Christina Schulze
For children, playing outdoors is a meaningful occupation, and such play is enabled by outdoor playgrounds. As play is a fundamental right for every child, Universal Design is an approach to creating inclusive playgrounds that welcome all children. Yet, research investigating how the physical environment of a playground supports children ’ s play needs, in terms of play value and inclusion, is largely absent. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate how children ’ s experiences of the environmental characteristics of outdoor playgrounds add to the understanding of play value and inclusion from a child-centred perspective. Using a meta-ethnography approach, a systematic review of qualitative evidence was conducted, which included 17 studies. The study identi fi ed two themes. Theme one describes the understanding of play value from the children ’ s view, which includes their experiencing and mastering of challenges, creating and shaping of the physical environment, social experiences of playing with or alongside other children, and sense of belonging felt from the welcoming playground atmosphere. Theme two describes how the design of the physical environment of a playground in the sense of the variety of spaces and places, and the variability of designed and non-designed elements, in fl uences play value and inclusion. The line of argument synthesis describes the interrelationship between the physical (variety and variability) and the social environment (inclusion) characteristics of the playground through the socio-spatial element of play value. This study identi fi ed the interrelated elements contributing to high play value, and consequently place-making, which can contribute to the understanding of inclusive design for playgrounds.
{"title":"Children’s experiences of playground characteristics that contribute to play value and inclusion: Insights from a meta-ethnography","authors":"I. Wenger, H. Lynch, M. Prellwitz, Christina Schulze","doi":"10.1080/14427591.2023.2248135","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14427591.2023.2248135","url":null,"abstract":"For children, playing outdoors is a meaningful occupation, and such play is enabled by outdoor playgrounds. As play is a fundamental right for every child, Universal Design is an approach to creating inclusive playgrounds that welcome all children. Yet, research investigating how the physical environment of a playground supports children ’ s play needs, in terms of play value and inclusion, is largely absent. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate how children ’ s experiences of the environmental characteristics of outdoor playgrounds add to the understanding of play value and inclusion from a child-centred perspective. Using a meta-ethnography approach, a systematic review of qualitative evidence was conducted, which included 17 studies. The study identi fi ed two themes. Theme one describes the understanding of play value from the children ’ s view, which includes their experiencing and mastering of challenges, creating and shaping of the physical environment, social experiences of playing with or alongside other children, and sense of belonging felt from the welcoming playground atmosphere. Theme two describes how the design of the physical environment of a playground in the sense of the variety of spaces and places, and the variability of designed and non-designed elements, in fl uences play value and inclusion. The line of argument synthesis describes the interrelationship between the physical (variety and variability) and the social environment (inclusion) characteristics of the playground through the socio-spatial element of play value. This study identi fi ed the interrelated elements contributing to high play value, and consequently place-making, which can contribute to the understanding of inclusive design for playgrounds.","PeriodicalId":51542,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Occupational Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42129896","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-03DOI: 10.1080/14427591.2023.2247850
Staffan Josephsson
ABSTRACT The focus of this Ruth Zemke lecture is to present and reflect on ways theoretical resources on narrative interpretation are relevant to some of the key tensions and challenges facing the study of human occupation and related practices today; The tensions between an individual and a social framing of human occupation, between a focus on identifying discrete elements of human occupation versus a processual focus on how human occupations unfold and work, and finally the tensions between focusing on success versus acknowledging human vulnerability as resource. Drawing on Ricoeur’s notion of narrative interpretation as a threefold mimetic process involving material, emplotment, and communication, suggestions are offered on how a narrative-in-action approach illuminates how processes of agency and change in people’s human occupation can be shaped and revised.
{"title":"To act in front of the stories: Narrative interpretation as a resource to move from what to how","authors":"Staffan Josephsson","doi":"10.1080/14427591.2023.2247850","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14427591.2023.2247850","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The focus of this Ruth Zemke lecture is to present and reflect on ways theoretical resources on narrative interpretation are relevant to some of the key tensions and challenges facing the study of human occupation and related practices today; The tensions between an individual and a social framing of human occupation, between a focus on identifying discrete elements of human occupation versus a processual focus on how human occupations unfold and work, and finally the tensions between focusing on success versus acknowledging human vulnerability as resource. Drawing on Ricoeur’s notion of narrative interpretation as a threefold mimetic process involving material, emplotment, and communication, suggestions are offered on how a narrative-in-action approach illuminates how processes of agency and change in people’s human occupation can be shaped and revised.","PeriodicalId":51542,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Occupational Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43375141","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-31DOI: 10.1080/14427591.2023.2240815
I. Wenger, S. Kantartzis, H. Lynch, C. Schulze, J. Jackson
{"title":"Making secret hiding places: An occupation of childhood","authors":"I. Wenger, S. Kantartzis, H. Lynch, C. Schulze, J. Jackson","doi":"10.1080/14427591.2023.2240815","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14427591.2023.2240815","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51542,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Occupational Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43730821","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-30DOI: 10.1080/14427591.2023.2248601
Laura Reinhold, M. Mondaca
{"title":"Envisioning better opportunities for young-system-survivors: A critical dialogical study among occupational therapists promoting inclusive practices in Germany","authors":"Laura Reinhold, M. Mondaca","doi":"10.1080/14427591.2023.2248601","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14427591.2023.2248601","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51542,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Occupational Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46132597","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-29DOI: 10.1080/14427591.2023.2245444
S. Mohr, Debbie Kramer-Roy, P. Boyle
{"title":"The experience of flow by people living with disabilities: A meta-study of qualitative research","authors":"S. Mohr, Debbie Kramer-Roy, P. Boyle","doi":"10.1080/14427591.2023.2245444","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14427591.2023.2245444","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51542,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Occupational Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49177241","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}