Individual support and resources articulation in Social Occupational Therapy: sharing an experience

DOI: 10.15343/0104-7809.20112233238

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This text presents and discusses an experience of individual and territorial support, realized in the field of social occupational therapy.
Focusing urban poor youth, weaimed to carefor the contemporary necessity of development and extension of alternatives of prevention
in vulnerability and violence situations, by means of the education and of the defense of citizenship, as well as facing the challenge of the
creation of participative methodologies. This is a complex thematic for which there is only a small accumulation of references and material
on intervention possibilities, directed to the production of social technologies dedicated to the creation of spaces of participation and to
the extension of the network of sociabilities and opportunities for youngsters. Thus, ingenuousness in relation to resources and activities
that facilitate the reflective approachand listening processes was necessary to constitute bonds based on confidence relations, fortified by
the technical responsibility concerning the exigencies presentedby young people. We conclude that individual and territorial support may
be proposed like a technique, a practical set of methods and procedures, becoming an additional tool in adapting care services to the goal
population of occupational therapy in the social field.