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Occupational therapists and physiotherapists weighing up the dignity of risk for people living with a brain injury: grounded theory.

Mandy J StanleyGisela Van KesselCarolyn M MurrayDeborah ForsytheShylie Fordyce Mackintosh
Published in: Disability and rehabilitation (2021)
Rather than taking control and attempting to minimise risk therapists who privilege the perspective of the client, and provide opportunities for learning through failure or success, enable clients to live a full life.IMPLICATIONS FOR REHABILITATIONEnsuring that clients with brain injury are safe often requires therapists to exercise control and remove agency thus removing the rights of the client to the dignity of risk and living a full life.Providing opportunities within rehabilitation for clients to experience failure and success enables learning and thereby support dignity.Privileging the client perspective provides clients the dignity of living a normal life.
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