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{"title":"Everyday aesthetics from an occupational perspective","authors":"Kyle E. Karen, C. Evetts","doi":"10.1080/14427591.2023.2210150","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14427591.2023.2210150","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Mentions of aesthetic experiences tied to occupation in everyday life appear in the occupational science literature but aesthetic experiences have not been a focus of study. Building on the definition of aesthetic emotion, we draw on key conceptual sources from anthropology, philosophy, psychology, and the science of neuroaesthetics to explore everyday aesthetics from the perspective of occupation. Objects are critical to an aesthetic event and significant at an occupational, societal, and cultural level. The neurological process of object appraisal is a key source of aesthetic emotion in everyday life. We propose everyday aesthetics as a useful concept for identifying and describing aesthetic experiences that stir humans to act in ways related to occupation and social interaction. Reactions to aesthetic emotions stimulated by the appraisal of objects and events result in acts that potentially support or undermine health and well-being. Everyday aesthetic experiences are a source of motivation present in creative acts and in occupation. Aesthetic emotional processing in everyday life is an aspect of decision-making impacting pleasure, displeasure, agency, and subjective quality of life.","PeriodicalId":51542,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Occupational Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43962616","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}

{"title":"Understanding the occupational impact of waiting using occupational science concepts","authors":"A. de Iongh, C. Martin","doi":"10.1080/14427591.2023.2209781","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14427591.2023.2209781","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Waiting is part of the collective experience as occupational beings. It has been studied in fields of psychology and patient experience, but not yet explored within occupational science. We consider the strengths and limitations of considering waiting as an occupation in itself or as a form of occupational disruption. While people wait in almost every aspect of their daily lives, this paper focuses predominantly on waiting in the context of healthcare services. While recognising the wider impact of waiting in other aspects of life, this focus was chosen in response to media coverage of waiting times following the COVID-19 pandemic. In light of this exploration, we call for more occupationally focused research into the phenomenon of waiting, which can lead to fuller assessments of the impact of waiting for patients and development of occupationally focussed interventions to support ‘waiting well’.","PeriodicalId":51542,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Occupational Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49486728","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}

{"title":"Editorial","authors":"Clare Hocking","doi":"10.1080/14427591.2023.2191758","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14427591.2023.2191758","url":null,"abstract":"Anyone who has tracked the growth of occupational science will have observed the increasing scope of the discipline. Amongst the many concepts of interest, discussion of a few ideas has endured over the decades. Three of these feature in this issue of the Journal of Occupational Science: occupational balance, people’s experience of participating in occupation, and a temporal perspective of occupation changing over an evolutionary time frame, the human lifespan, and as individuals learn and develop skills and capacities. In her introduction to occupational science, published in the first issue of the first volume of the Journal of Occupational Science: Australia (later renamed as JOS), Yerxa (1993) emphasised the discipline’s roots in occupational therapy and its promise “to provide a substantive knowledge base for the profession” (p. 4). In itemising the dilemmas of occupational therapy practice that this new science would address, Yerxa pointed to the notion of balance (the daily round of work, play, rest, and sleep). She, like occupational therapists before her and the occupational science scholars and researchers who would follow, pinned the idea of balance to Meyer, an American psychiatrist who published in first issue of the Archives of Occupational Therapy in 1922. Wilcock (1993), also publishing in the inaugural issue of Journal of Occupational Science: Australia, extended the discussion. Balance, she maintained, is foundational to health. At a biological level, it is maintained through the mechanisms of homeostasis. Behaviourally, Wilcock maintained, “balanced and stimulating use of physical, mental and social capacities” (p. 22) enhanced health. Accordingly, engaging in a range of occupations would “provide balance between physical, mental and social challenges and relaxation” (p. 23). Wilcock argued, however, that the technologies that have altered lifestyles in post-industrial societies have altered occupational structures to an extent that human life is out of step with our biology and with sustaining the ecology. The apparent complexity of occupational balance is taken up in this issue. Liu, Zemke, Liang, and McLaughlin Gray (2023) offer both a review of the concept and, noting that it has not been taken up outside Western societies, offer an Eastern perspective. Their Model of Occupational Harmony integrates the multiple viewpoints various authors have taken to the concept, ranging from the biological rhythms Wilcock emphasised to occupational balance as the patterns or characteristics of occupation, time use, and need satisfaction. Rather than holding each of these perspectives as distinct, the model suggests how they might be considered as a coherent whole, thus “allowing occupational scientists to embrace the complexity of the orchestration of occupational engagement” (p. 145). Interest in conceptualising occupational balance in this integrated manner is high: This was the 8 most downloaded JOS article in 2022. Taking a different","PeriodicalId":51542,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Occupational Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42109918","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}

{"title":"Stranded in the living room: A narrative study of occupational disruption and imbalance as experienced by two Norwegian students during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown","authors":"Mona Asbjørnslett, Simon Reidar Berg, Védis Einarsdottir, L. Skarpaas","doi":"10.1080/14427591.2023.2190344","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14427591.2023.2190344","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The everyday life experiences of undergraduate students under conditions of social isolation have been little explored. This paper explores the ways in which the 2020 COVID-19 lockdown impacted two Norwegian students’ everyday lives. Data were derived from diary entries kept by the students, one with a physical impairment and the other a single parent, over a 5-week period during the first lockdown (May-June 2020). Initial data analysis was done by the students and formed part of their bachelor’s degree theses. Their two supervisors subsequently carried out the secondary analysis presented in this paper, using a narrative design and methodology. The concept of social isolation is used as a lens through which to explore occupational disruption and imbalance experienced by both students during lockdown. Three themes emerged from the students’ personal stories: 1) Life at home: Not being able to maintain a healthy occupational balance, 2) Finding confidence, regaining motivation and purpose, and 3) The meaning of a productive place. The findings highlight how social isolation led to a significant experience of occupational disruption that influenced the ability to maintain a healthy occupational balance for both students, despite their quite different situations. This paper contributes to occupational science literature by showing examples of occupational disruption in everyday life of students during a pandemic. Furthermore, we introduce occupational resignation related to occupational disruption and discuss the meaning of a productive place to maintain occupational balance and regain motivation after occupational disruption.","PeriodicalId":51542,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Occupational Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41591425","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}

{"title":"Occupational ecology: An emerging field for occupational science","authors":"Salvador Simó Algado","doi":"10.1080/14427591.2023.2185278","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14427591.2023.2185278","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The following article highlights the need to develop an occupational ecology, that is, the study of the deep and inseparable connection between human occupation and the ecological environment. Occupational ecology emerges as an occupational science field of study in an interprofessional and transdisciplinary dialogue. Potential fields of study are proposed for the development of an occupational ecology. Different projects and examples are presented to illustrate this proposition. This knowledge may empower, among other disciplines, the development of an ecosocial occupational therapy, translating theory to praxis, whose purpose is the creation of healthy, inclusive, and sustainable communities. Ecopations and eco-occupations are presented as key related concepts for occupational ecology.","PeriodicalId":51542,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Occupational Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41589607","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}

{"title":"Shedding light on hidden Filipino occupations as portrayed by mass media and scholarly resources: A critical interpretive synthesis","authors":"M. Sy, Ricardo Carrasco, Terry Peralta-Catipon, D. P. Yao, Veronica Dee, Peñafrancia E. Ching","doi":"10.1080/14427591.2023.2182348","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14427591.2023.2182348","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51542,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Occupational Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41270962","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}

{"title":"Special Issue on Place","authors":"C. Hand","doi":"10.1080/14427591.2023.2170679","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14427591.2023.2170679","url":null,"abstract":"Place is a fundamental part of the occupations of everyday life. In 2008 Rowles advocated seeking knowledge of how person and place come together in humans’ search for meaning, attending to how ‘being in place’ is created through actions, routines in time and space, familiarity with life spaces, and emotional responses to place. Attention to place in occupational science has continued to grow in recent years, shaped by the current global context as well as theoretical and empirical work in occupational science and beyond. Globally, there are significant challenges to sense of place and engaging in occupation in place that have prompted research, for example experiences of marginalization and oppression in place among multiple individuals and collectives; immigration and displacement highlighting the impact that a change in place can have on daily life; and consequences of measures to reduce the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, such as restricting one’s life spaces. A transactional perspective of place and occupation, which has been developed and applied in occupational science over the past decade or so, holds that they are co-constitutive and impossible to separate. That is, occupation is a transaction that joins person and place, with such transactions extending over time, as the person transacts within their past, current, and future contexts toward their vision of the future (Dickie et al., 2006). Several articles in this issue employ this approach. This issue presents nine articles related to occupation in place. Four are from Canada, four are from the United States, and one is from the United Kingdom. The articles examine place empirically, theoretically, and methodologically.Many drawon place-based theory such as transactional perspectives of occupation, place integration, sense of place, and emplacement. This issue addresses topics of immigration, aging ‘out-of-place’, human-canine interactions, mothering, online gaming, exclusion among older adults, embodiment and emplacement, and place-based research methods. All relate to ideas of built, natural, social, cultural, societal, temporal, and/or historical aspects of place and context. The first two articles in this issue focus on refugees and the process of re-establishing place and identity through occupation. Khan et al. (2023) conducted a narrative inquiry to explore occupational transitions among Syrian youth who had experienced forced migration to Canada. Part of the authors’ positionality was that they viewed “forced migration from one’s homeland as a life-altering experience that involves the process of re-establishing one’s identity and place through continuous negotiation between one’s own cultural values and the norms of the new society” (p. 8). The authors found that displacement from one’s home country meant an ‘unfolding’ of occupational possibilities, which were shaped by sociocultural and political contexts. The Syrian youth sought to find a place in society through educatio","PeriodicalId":51542,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Occupational Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47704864","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}

{"title":"Understanding disruptions to children’s patterns of occupation and forms of occupational engagement during COVID-19 in Greece: An exploratory study","authors":"Sofia Zogogianni, G. Whiteford, Panagiotis Siaperas","doi":"10.1080/14427591.2022.2149051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14427591.2022.2149051","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Background Occupational engagement and participation is considered essential for children’s health, development, and social connectedness. Due to the global COVID-19 pandemic and the ensuing government ordered restrictions in Greece, school aged children’s patterns of occupational engagement were altered. Purpose The purpose of this study was to explore the ways in which restrictions disrupted school aged children’s occupational patterns and the ways in which they engaged in chosen occupations in Greece during the first wave of COVID-19 in 2020. Design/methodology Two hundred and seventy-five children aged 6- to 12-years old completed the Children’s Assessment of Participation and Enjoyment (CAPE) online. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics to identify how the patterns of occupation and forms of occupational engagement changed during the COVID-19 related restrictions and whether age or gender could be correlated to any altered patterns identified. Findings Children became more involved in home-based informal occupations—particularly recreational occupations—and the forms of their occupational engagement altered. Gender apparently influenced the types of occupations in which the children participated and there was an increase in the amount of time spent with family members in co-occupations. Conclusion The study described in this article was unique in that it was conducted during the first wave of COVID-19 in Greece. Its findings highlight the impacts of restrictions on children’s patterns of occupation and forms of occupational engagement within a global pandemic context.","PeriodicalId":51542,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Occupational Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2022-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41409437","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}

{"title":"Forbidden fruit: An exploration of meaning construction of tobacco smoking of people living with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)","authors":"Natalie Gätz, F. van Nes, Jesper Larsen Maersk","doi":"10.1080/14427591.2022.2148722","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14427591.2022.2148722","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Background: Smoking is an avoidable risk factor for diseases, impacting socioeconomic and health care systems globally. The meaning, purposes, and values related to continued smoking after being diagnosed with COPD have not yet been sufficiently explored from an occupational perspective. Gaining an understanding of why people continue to engage in health-compromising or harmful occupations facilitates a more inclusive view on and discussion of occupation. The purpose of this study was to explore meaning construction regarding the occupation of tobacco smoking of people living with COPD in Germany. Methods: This study applied an interpretative phenomenology analysis (IPA) approach to explore the lived experience of people living with COPD who continue to smoke. Four participants were interviewed. Their accounts were then analysed following IPA guidelines. Findings: Three themes emerged from the data: Set in stone, Forbidden fruit, and To wear sackcloth and ashes. Smoking was experienced as a meaningful occupation, and it was especially valued for how it structured the day. Smoking was a familiar habit, and it supported emotional, physical, and cognitive well-being, and contributed to sense of identity. Conclusion: The findings illustrate the importance of understanding occupations that are not positively related to physical health and well-being because of their harmful nature. The findings of this study suggest that occupations do not need to be health-promoting, productive, or reasonable to be meaningful to individuals—meaning is constructed by subjective perceptions of enjoyment, pleasure, and well-being and by experiencing a sense of restoration and reward when engaging in them.","PeriodicalId":51542,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Occupational Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2022-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45857680","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}

{"title":"Supported employment for youth with intellectual disability: Promoting occupational justice","authors":"Madri Engelbrecht, L. van Niekerk, L. Shaw","doi":"10.1080/14427591.2022.2146159","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14427591.2022.2146159","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Introduction: Youth with intellectual disabilities are severely marginalized in accessing employment. South African policies recognize this group as a priority in youth development efforts, but employment research focuses mainly on adults with disabilities. A lack of understanding about the employment endeavours of youth with intellectual disabilities leads to a shortfall in focused employment strategies and could perpetuate occupational injustices for this group. Aim: To explore how a South African work transition program for youth with intellectual disabilities promotes occupational justice through work. Methodology: Critical ethnography and a critical occupational perspective were used to highlight the socio-political context of the program and structural influences on opportunity in work for youth with intellectual disabilities. Eight in-depth interviews were conducted with program directors, a job coach, and an employer, plus five focus group interviews with employed and unemployed youth respectively. Available program documents were reviewed, and reflective journaling was done on observations during interviews. Content analysis of reviewed documents and thematic analysis of interview transcripts were completed. Manifestations of occupational justice were considered in all program aspects. Findings: The individualized support tenet of ‘supported employment’ promoted youth with intellectual disabilities’ uptake of occupational opportunities and sustained participation in work as meaningful occupation. Support was offered by different role players and premised on the program’s human rights foundation in recognition of a concern for contextual barriers, such as policy shortfalls that constrain employment participation and perpetuate occupational injustices for youth with intellectual disabilities.","PeriodicalId":51542,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Occupational Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2022-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48885109","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}