The group device as intervention in rehabilitation: reflections from the practical one in Occupational Therapy

Abstract

The group boardings have been, each time more, source of inquiry and intervention in the practical one of the occupational therapy. This article searchs to argue the use of the group device as intervention in rehabilitation, raising some theoretical elements that base this proposal. A therapeutical group of activities can be configured as important space for the revelation and changes of diverse relative contents to the rehabilitation, as difficulties, limits and potentialities, lived deeply from different necessities and demands. It also can, through the processes to tie, to configure themselves in space for the construction of new projects of life, singulars and collective.