By Michael K. Iwama PhD MSc BScOT BSc
A landmark book in occupational remedy and an important contribution to the rehabilitation idea literature! The Kawa version provides a brand new conceptual version of perform that differs from modern theories in regard to: beginning (East Asia), underlying philosophical base (East Asia), being seriously infused with a natural-ecological, holistic global view, and relational constitution. The version is predicated at the metaphor of nature (a river) that stands for the meanings of lifestyles. as a result familiarity of the metaphor, to either therapists and consumers alike, the Kawa version is comparatively effortless to realize, remarkably easy, but entire and powerful. in contrast to different types, it used to be raised from medical perform, by means of practitioners, via a technique of qualitative learn tools. it's the first conceptual version and big theoretical paintings of occupational treatment from outdoor of the Western world.
- A 'must-read' for all scholars of occupational therapy
- The first gigantic paintings in occupational treatment from open air of the Western world
- Introduces an jap viewpoint on issues of concept and tradition in occupational therapy
- Eight case reports, 4 from Western perform contexts and 4 from the East
- Developed by means of clinicians and practitioners for his or her peers
- Questions the cultural obstacles of occupational remedy, its wisdom (epistemiology), concept and perform. It places the reader in contact with the cultural nature of self, purchaser and profession
- Enables readers to improve serious research abilities for analyzing concerns of concept and tradition, instead of studying concept as 'recipes'
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If the stability of 36 Others may, in their quest to probe social-cultural bases to meanings of doing, ponder the matter of cosmological myths or imaginations that people hold for the structure and content of the universe and their imagined places within it. ; what is the reason for being? ’ In such queries, the views of a larger schema in which meanings are mediated and clarified are being made explicit. These views or narratives are referred to here as ‘cosmological myths’6, and are employed in an attempt to reflect on cultural influences that extend beyond individual physical attribution to include deeper realms of the social.
Progressing beyond culture’s usual treatment as a static mark or individual emblem of distinction (like race or ethnicity), culture was also discussed as a dynamic process by which such individual distinctions and the categories that function to delineate and organise such distinctions are socially manufactured (or constructed1,2). Collective agreement on the meaning of shared social experiences was speculated to be the important basis by which meanings were ascribed to phenomena and objects we experience and perceive in our world.
Cross-Cultural Concepts As the Building Blocks of Conceptual Models Occupation 22 Instead of an occasion like Christmas that acquires certain meanings from the surrounding social context, we might now consider another matter closer to the subject of occupational therapy. What happens to a concept like occupation when we view it in various contexts of culture? If we were to insert a social phenomenon, such as ‘human action’ into a similar comparison between two different shared social spheres of experience, a similar contrast of associated meanings as what was demonstrated with the concept of Christmas would be apparent.