Abstract

GONCALVES, Monica Villaça  and  MALFITANO, Ana Paula Serrata. Social Occupational Therapy, Impoverished Youth, and Everyday Urban Mobility. S. Afr. j. occup. ther. [online]. 2021, vol.51, n.4, pp.32-40. ISSN 2310-3833.  http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2310-3833/2021/vol51n4a5.

Considering social participation as an objective in Social Occupational Therapy, we discuss the incorporation of the concept of Everyday Urban Mobility from four of its action technologies: (a) workshops/activities, dynamics and projects; b) individual territorial follow-ups; c) articulation of resources in the social field; d) dynamization of the support network. Based on data from a research study with impoverished young favela dwellers in Brazil, this study included a secondary analysis of these data, and discusses how urban mobility could be incorporated into social occupational therapy practices. We conclude that social occupational therapy (from a political perspective of mobility), can develop actions to facilitate the urban mobility of young people and use it as a point of departure for occupational therapy professional practice. In doing so, it becomes possible to apply mobility as an objective, a resource, a means of assessing everyday life, and/or an aspect to be considered in micro- and macro-social work endeavours that are linked to social policies.

Keywords : Social Occupational Therapy; Youth; Right to Freedom of Movement; Citizenship; Urbanization.

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