Reflexões sobre uma trajetória na Terapia Ocupacional

Abstract

This text is part of the memorial presented as a requirement of the contest for full professor position in Occupational Therapy at the School of Medicine from the University of Sao Paulo. The reflections presented aim to trace the trajectory contextualized in different periods and institutions where the writer has worked, and how they have blended with the academic development of Occupational Therapy itself. The text also seeks to discuss the solidification process of the writer's training as a researcher and the results arisen thereof. These courses were built on research and culminated in the Mental Health and Work search line and its interfaces with Occupational Therapy. Across the text, the academic and scientific development in the field of occupational therapy is reflected and, finally, discussions are pointed out on the necessary consolidation of the area in research and graduate studies and, therefore, in the dissemination of knowledge by publications indexed and relevant to the field. The text is both a personal account and a true representation of the profession development in Brazil in the past thirty years.