An integrative review of social and occupational factors influencing health and wellbeing.
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2015-01
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Therapeutic approaches to health and wellbeing have traditionally assumed that meaningful activity or occupation contributes to health and quality of life. Within social psychology, everyday activities and practices that fill our lives are believed to be shaped by structural and systemic factors and in turn these practices can form the basis of social identities. In occupational therapy these everyday activities are called occupations. Occupations can be understood as a contextually bound synthesis of meaningful doing, being, belonging and becoming that influence health and wellbeing. We contend that an integrative review of occupational therapy and social psychology literature will enhance our ability to understand the relationship between social structures, identity and dimensions of occupation by elucidating how they inform one another, and how taken together they augment our understanding of health and wellbeing This review incorporates theoretical and empirical works purposively sampled from databases within EBSCO including CINAHL, psychINFO, psychArticles, and Web of Science. Search terms included: occupation, therapy, social psychology, occupational science, health, wellbeing, identity, structures and combinations of these terms. In presenting this review, we argue that doing, being and belonging may act as an important link to widely acknowledged relationships between social factors and health and wellbeing, and that interventions targeting individual change may be problematic.
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Gallagher, MaryBeth, Orla T Muldoon and Judith Pettigrew (2015). An integrative review of social and occupational factors influencing health and wellbeing. Frontiers in psychology, 6. p. 1281. 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01281 Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/26976.
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MaryBeth Gallagher
I believe that mental health and wellness are the keys to successful living. My teaching and research are shaped by this belief and on ways to make the world more inclusive through improving access to mental wellness. I have a keen interest in community based, action oriented and participatory research methods. I engage with others in forming communities of scholars to examine practice and implement findings into creating change at various levels of intersection from direct practice to system level changes.
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