Cultural Influences And Occupation-Centred Practice With Children And Families

Occupation-Centred Practice with Children: A Practical Guide for Occupational Therapists

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 75-93

  Nelson, Alison ^a   Iwama, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Crux of using Kawa Model to explicate and illuminate context; Cultural influences and occupation centred practice with children and families; Cultural safety recognizes effect of past and present political actions on current health status of colonised peoples; Culture and occupations of the child; Culture nd how it might be viewed within occupational therapy practice; Culture, fundamental facet of how we ascribe meaning to and make sense of occupations; Kawa Model tool for culturally safe practice, Kawa (Japanese for 'river') Model; Occupation centred practice with children; Therapists' observations and knowledge of environmental context; Views of children and their occupations, and our Western centredness influencing practice as occupational therapists

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960562110     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444319699.ch4     Document Type: Chapter

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