Occupational Therapists as Street-Level Bureaucrats: Leveraging the Political Nature of Everyday Practice.

Rebecca M AldrichDebbie Laliberte Rudman
Published in: Canadian journal of occupational therapy. Revue canadienne d'ergotherapie (2019)
Framing occupational therapists as street-level bureaucrats reinforces practitioners' situatedness as political actors. Mobilizing this framing can enhance awareness of occupational therapists' exercise of discretion, which can be investigated as a basis for occupation-focused and emancipatory forms of practice.