Habilitating rehabilitation – the actions of occupational therapy in its completeness: the necessity for a conceptual discussion on rehabilitation processes
DOI:10.15343/0104-7809.200630.1.17
Keywords:
People with dificiencies-rehabilitation, Occupational therapy, Rehabilitation-conceptAbstract
Having as a focus of discussion the concept of rehabilitation, this article presents and examines different perspectives that
had constructed a certain look about the relation to people with deficiencies and on possible interventions engaged by occupational
therapy in this field. Aiming at extending the discussion on autonomy, independence, care and self management, we question the trend
professionals and programs directed to this population have of understanding this territory by means of lack, something that supposes
an ideal completeness that does not answer to the necessities and desires of this population in its relations with the economic, cultural,
social and political world. By also reassessing the idea of function, one works on the basis of the assumption that social exchanges
include the others gaze, a gaze that imposes in the present time a more complex and broader vision that goes beyond the observed
visible deficiencies in the rehabilitation processes.
