Introduction A strong professional identity helps occupational therapists maintain
professional values and thrive when facing work-related challenges and opportunities …

Background In a globalised world, with injustices and inequities, occupational therapists
have a moral and ethical obligation to use their knowledge and skills to work at a collective …

Background: Perspectives that individualize occupation are poorly aligned with socially
responsive and transformative occupation-focused research, education, and practice. Their …

Occupational identity has been conceptualized with the individual at the core of the construct
and assuming that autonomy and free choice are universally applicable constructs. While …

Occupational science as a discipline is still comparatively new and though there has been a
significant leap forward in terms of conceptual and theoretical development in the last …

Over the past decade, many occupational science scholars have emphasized the critical
potential of occupational science; that is, its capacity to generate knowledge to inform …

Aim: The purpose of this article is to consider the ways in which theory generation, and
hence knowledge generation, in occupational therapy is a complex social process, and …

Occupational therapy and science are facing calls for social transformation based on the
growing awareness and concern with widening occupational inequities and growing …

Calls to 'transcend the individual'in occupational science have emerged in recognition of the
boundaries of individualistic perspectives and the drive to develop a socially responsive …

Looking glasses enable people to see themselves. Aside from fairground mirrors, which
deliberately distort the image for comic effect, looking glasses are presumed to provide an …