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The Contextually Situated Nature of Occupational Choice: Marginalised Young Adolescents' Experiences in South Africa

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Jenna Keane, Ciara Ryan & Ruth Usher. (2024) Leisure and social occupational choice within nursing home facilities in Ireland: Residents perspectives. Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy 31:1.
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Almut Spaeth, Fenna van Nes, Petra Verdonk & Tineke Abma. (2023) How caring work of older women gets disappeared: The gendered dynamics of changing everyday occupations in an older German couple. Journal of Occupational Science 0:0, pages 1-14.
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Loani Marx, Denise Franzsen & Matty van Niekerk. (2023) Current and future occupational performance priorities of adolescents with learning difficulties and their parents. Journal of Occupational Science 30:2, pages 262-276.
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Michelle Bergin, Bryan Boyle, Margareta Lilja & Maria Prellwitz. (2023) Irish Schoolyards: Teacher’s Experiences of Their Practices and Children’s Play-“It’s Not as Straight Forward as We Think”. Journal of Occupational Therapy, Schools, & Early Intervention 0:0, pages 1-20.
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Jackie Parsonage, Kristine Naylor Lund, Helen Dawes, Hajar Almoajil & Mona Eklund. (2022) An exploration of occupational choices in adolescence: A constructivist grounded theory study. Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy 29:6, pages 464-481.
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Rodolfo Morrison, Lilian Araya, Josefina Del Valle, Vivian Vidal & Katherine Silva. (2022) Apartheid ocupacional y derechos humanos: Narrativas de parejas del mismo sexo que quieren ser padres. Una experiencia chilena. Journal of Occupational Science 29:2, pages XXXVI-LI.
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Monica Villaça Gonçalves & Ana Paula Serrata Malfitano. (2022) Jovens brasileiros em situação de pobreza: O cotidiano na favela. Journal of Occupational Science 29:2, pages 263-278.
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Tanya Elizabeth Benjamin-Thomas, Debbie Laliberte Rudman, Colleen McGrath, Debra Cameron, Vinod Joseph Abraham, Jeshuran Gunaseelan & Samuel Prasanna Vinothkumar. (2022) Situating occupational injustices experienced by children with disabilities in rural India within sociocultural, economic, and systemic conditions. Journal of Occupational Science 29:1, pages 97-114.
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Karen Whalley Hammell. (2022) Securing occupational rights by addressing capabilities: A professional obligation. Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy 29:1, pages 1-12.
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Julia Jansen-van Vuuren, Heather Michelle Aldersey & Rosemary Lysaght. (2021) The role and scope of occupational therapy in Africa. Disability and Rehabilitation 43:25, pages 3639-3651.
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Elelwani L. Ramugondo. (2021) Terminología ocupacional: Conciencia ocupacional. Journal of Occupational Science 28:4, pages 574-587.
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Anna Opland Stenersen. (2021) Commentary: Reflections on anti-racism in the Norwegian context. Journal of Occupational Science 28:3, pages 417-418.
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Mary C. Lawlor. (2021) An untold story: A unifying narrative of the discipline of occupational science. Journal of Occupational Science 28:2, pages 208-220.
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Liesl Peters & Roshan Galvaan. (2021) A scoping review exploring ‘opportunity’ in occupational science: Possibilities for conceptual development. Journal of Occupational Science 28:2, pages 249-267.
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Clare Hocking. (2021) Occupation in context: A reflection on environmental influences on human doing. Journal of Occupational Science 28:2, pages 221-234.
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Roshan Galvaan. (2021) Generative disruption through occupational science: Enacting possibilities for deep human connection. Journal of Occupational Science 28:1, pages 6-18.
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Kavitha Murthi & Karen Whalley Hammell. (2021) ‘Choice’ in occupational therapy theory: A critique from the situation of patriarchy in India. Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy 28:1, pages 1-12.
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Lisette Farias & Juman Simaan. (2020) Introduction to the Anti-Racism Virtual Issue of the Journal of Occupational Science. Journal of Occupational Science 27:4, pages 454-459.
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Nikhil Tomar & Antoine L. Bailliard. (2020) Understanding the moral economics of occupational engagement. Journal of Occupational Science 27:1, pages 82-94.
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Tanya Elizabeth Benjamin-Thomas, Debbie Laliberte Rudman, Debra Cameron & Beata Batorowicz. (2019) Participatory digital methodologies: Potential of three approaches for advancing transformative occupation-based research with children and youth. Journal of Occupational Science 26:4, pages 559-574.
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Jennifer Claire McAdam, Denise Franzsen & Daleen Casteleijn. (2019) Identification of occupations in a South African rural less-resourced community. Journal of Occupational Science 26:3, pages 379-393.
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Tracey Parnell, Gail Whiteford & Clare Wilding. (2019) Differentiating occupational decision-making and occupational choice. Journal of Occupational Science 26:3, pages 442-448.
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Lindsey Nicholls & Michelle L. Elliot. (2019) In the shadow of occupation: Racism, shame and grief. Journal of Occupational Science 26:3, pages 354-365.
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Leonie Boland & Miranda Cunningham. (2019) Homelessness: Critical reflections and observations from an occupational perspective. Journal of Occupational Science 26:2, pages 308-315.
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Karen Whalley Hammell. (2019) Building globally relevant occupational therapy from the strength of our diversity. World Federation of Occupational Therapists Bulletin 75:1, pages 13-26.
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Karen M. Keptner. (2019) Relationship between occupational performance measures and adjustment in a sample of university students. Journal of Occupational Science 26:1, pages 6-17.
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Randy Yañez & Yanira Zúñiga. (2018) Derecho y justicia ocupacional: Aportes a la comprensión de la discapacidad en Chile. Journal of Occupational Science 25:4, pages lxxiv-lxxxiv.
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Randy Yañez & Yanira Zúñiga. (2018) The law and occupational justice: Inputs for the understanding of disability in Chile. Journal of Occupational Science 25:4, pages 520-529.
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Eugenia Pizarro, Silvana Estrella, Fernanda Figueroa, Francisca Helmke, Claudia Pontigo & Gail Whiteford. (2018) Entendiendo la justicia ocupacional desde el concepto de territorio, una propuesta para la ciencia de la ocupación. Journal of Occupational Science 25:4, pages xvi-xxvi.
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Eugenia Pizarro, Silvana Estrella, Fernanda Figueroa, Francisca Helmke, Claudia Pontigo & Gail Whiteford. (2018) Understanding occupational justice from the concept of territory: A proposal for occupational science. Journal of Occupational Science 25:4, pages 463-473.
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Åsa-Sara Sernheim, Helena Hemmingsson, Ingegerd Witt Engerström & Gunilla Liedberg. (2018) Activities that girls and women with Rett syndrome liked or did not like to do. Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy 25:4, pages 267-277.
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Nadine Blankvoort, Muzeyyen Arslan, Ani Tonoyan, Ahmad Q. Damour & Liliane Mpabanzi. (2018) A new you: A collaborative exploration of occupational therapy’s role with refugees. World Federation of Occupational Therapists Bulletin 74:2, pages 92-98.
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Elelwani Ramugondo. (2018) Healing work: intersections for decoloniality. World Federation of Occupational Therapists Bulletin 74:2, pages 83-91.
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Antoine L. Bailliard, Amanda Carroll & Aaron R. Dallman. (2018) The Inescapable Corporeality of Occupation: Integrating Merleau-Ponty into the Study of Occupation. Journal of Occupational Science 25:2, pages 222-233.
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Alison J. Gerlach, Gail Teachman, Debbie Laliberte-Rudman, Rebecca M. Aldrich & Suzanne Huot. (2018) Expanding beyond individualism: Engaging critical perspectives on occupation. Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy 25:1, pages 35-43.
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Debbie Laliberte Rudman & Rebecca M. Aldrich. (2017) Discerning the social in individual stories of occupation through critical narrative inquiry. Journal of Occupational Science 24:4, pages 470-481.
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Clare Hocking. (2015) Editorial: Special Issue on Contextual and Evolutionary Perspectives of Occupation. Journal of Occupational Science 22:1, pages 1-2.
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