Reflections on: "So... what do you do?" Occupation and the construction of identity From: The Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy | Date: December 1, 2004| Author: Unruh, Anita M | Copyright Canadian Association of Occupational Therapists Dec 2004. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Abstract

Background. What we do has always played a leading part in social conversations about who we are. In part, these social questions are about occupational identity. Purpose and method. Occupational identity is an emerging concept in the occupational therapy literature. In this paper, the concept of occupational identity is examined through the observations of a former research participant in a previous study on the meaning of gardens and gardening in daily life, and the recent w...