Toward a Flexible Framework for Understanding Spirituality

Abstract

Occupational therapy and nursing literature share a common theoretical journey of the concept, spirituality. This paper draws on the nursing literature's theoretical progress in the area of spirituality in order to propose a theoretical framework for occupational therapy models. It is suggested that discourse analysis and the examination of personal and professional worldviews will contribute to theorizing of the concept of spirituality within the discipline of occupational therapy and that it is preferable to represent spirituality as a flexible framework rather than a fixed definition.