Racism in occupational therapy

Confronting Systemic Racism in Occupational Therapy

While the current reckoning with racism in the profession is likely to produce a new generation of professionals versed in anti-racist pedagogy ...

AOTA's Guide to Addressing the Impact of Racial Discrimination ...

Why should occupational therapy practitioners promote antiracism? Occupational therapy practitioners as health professionals must disavow racism and inequitable ...

Racism in occupational therapy: “It's part of who we are . . .”

2020 also saw the release of statements condemning racism, and committing to anti-racist actions, by several occupational therapy organizations ...

Developing an Anti-Racist Practice in Occupational Therapy

Developing an Anti-Racist Practice in Occupational Therapy: Guidance for the Occupational Therapist ... race and racism in occupational science. We present ...

Systemic Racism in Canadian Occupational Therapy: A Qualitative ...

Canada does not collect data on race within the profession, but calculating from the latest census data, “visible minority” therapists make up 13.7% of ...

Anti-racism and Occupational Therapy Education - Encompass

There is a pressing need to address racism within healthcare education; however, occupational therapy educators lack a compilation of discipline-specific ...

Why Anti-Racist Occupational Therapy Is the Current and Future ...

Anti-racism tends to be an individualized approach, and set up in opposition to individual racist behaviors and impacts” (Race Forward, 2020).

A Phenomenological Study of Systemic Racism Experienced Among ...

Occupational therapy students, racism, lived experiences, qualitative research, Wilcock's Occupational ... OT academic content on Black occupational beings ...

"Black Occupational Therapists' Experiences on the ... - SOAR@USA

... Therapy, Occupational Stress, African Americans, Racism, Surveys and Questionnaires. Disciplines. Occupational Therapy | Race and Ethnicity | Social Justice ...

Breaking the silence: Racism and anti-racism in occupational therapy

5. Engage in bystander anti-racism. Occupational therapists may witness racism in their daily practice. This could be from colleagues, clients or carers and ...

Experiences of epistemic racism among occupational therapists

Epistemic racism establishes the knowledges and ways of knowing of a dominant group as legitimate, invalidating those of groups marked by racialization.

Linking Antiracist Action From the Classroom to Practice

Juxtaposed to systemic racism, antiracism contends that racist policies and structures cause health and social outcomes to be predictable on the ...

The shadow side of occupational therapy: Necropower, state racism ...

The shadow side of occupational therapy: Necropower, state racism and colonialism. Pier-Luc Turcottea Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Rehabilitation ...

Becoming Anti-Racist Occupational Therapy Practitioners

Six databases were searched for content related to OT and anti-racism. ... Although being anti-racist is a lifelong process, strategies within ...

Systemic Racism in Canadian Occupational Therapy: A Qualitative ...

Background. Research on racism within occupational therapy is scant, though there are hints that racialized therapists struggle. Purpose.

Racism and Occupation - OT Potential

The authors outline for us how occupation has played a role in systemic racism in the US. This history and present must be understood and ...

Antiracist Occupational Therapy | Jessica Kingsley Publishers - UK

It has taken our occupational therapy profession more than a century to break its loud silence on the harmful existence of systemic racism and ...

Full article: Commentary on racism in occupational science

In societies infused with/founded on racism, there is no neutral ground, no 'opting out' through a stance of 'non-racist'. There is ...

Anti-Racist OT Practice - A Beginner's Guide - OTs for Action

Tagged: antiracist, antiracism, occupational therapy, OT, equity, BIPOC, occupational injustice, occupational justice ... Older PostRacism in ...

Becoming Anti-Racist Occupational Therapy Practitioners

Six databases were searched for content related to OT and anti-racism. ... Although being anti-racist is a lifelong process, strategies within this study can ...