Intervention fields and cores in social occupational therapy

Abstract

This work presents discuss on the occupational therapist professional role as a technician acting on the social field. A brief history of occupational therapist acting in this field and the present need for action insertion and projects' development, to which is presented an intervention based on the concepts of autonomy, citizenship and rights. The social field is understood as interdiscipline and intersection sphere which challenges reflexions and methodologies to many professional categories, as occupational therapist, to create and/or increase personal and supporting social nets from people and comunities, the population to whom the actions in the social field are targeted. The purpose is so that implanted directives target the concept of staff work and the build of a net for the social field - whcih structures in different levels of assistance. It works from the concepts of fields and knowledge cores, understanding field as an interdisciplinar activities sphere and the core as a center for specific actions from each professional. The challenge is in the necessary junction between technical and political intervention, tasks presents in the field, adding contributions from different cores. The occupational therapist acts in the field and also bid their specificity from the core of occupational therapy - from the activity and the comprehension of it as path activity, and not 'only' as the end. The occupational therapist´s role in social field is discussed, in this context.