Staffan Josephsson
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 281735 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Staffan Josephsson |
| NOMBRES | Staffan |
| APELLIDO | Josephsson |
| FIRMA | JOSEPHSSON S |
| AFILIACIONES | Karolinska Institutet |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3428-561X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 109 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2008 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Doing siblinghood”
Siblings of children with disabilities often experience tensions in their everyday lives. However, little is known about how meaning-making processes unfold through shared occupations in childhood, particularly from the perspective of siblings themselves. This study explored how a young girl’s experiences of engaging in everyday occupations, while having a brother with cerebral palsy, shape her understanding of her role as a sister. A secondary n…
Vulnerability as a resource in understanding human occupation
To act in front of the stories
The focus of this Ruth Zemke lecture is to present and reflect on ways theoretical resources on narrative interpretation are relevant to some of the key tensions and challenges facing the study of human occupation and related practices today; The tensions between an individual and a social framing of human occupation, between a focus on identifying discrete elements of human occupation versus a processual focus on how human occupations unfold and…
Everyday influence – democracy when health and social care are part of everyday life
This article contributes to ongoing discussions about frailty and vulnerability in critical gerontology by asserting that possibilities to engage and enact influence in everyday life situations is a crucial dimension of democracy in later life. We discuss how democracy in this sense can be threatened for older persons for whom health and social care services are needed, following from the labelling practices of frailty and the non-recognition of …
Safeguarding fairness in assessments—How teachers develop joint practices
The experience of sleep
Sleep is a frequently mentioned topic in current occupational science and occupational therapy literature, indicating an increasing interest in this occupation. However, we found a lack of understanding of the sleep experience in the literature. In our study, we sought to explore the experience of sleep among a sample of adults living in the Netherlands. We used a qualitative research design following descriptive phenomenology methodology. Data w…
Stories under construction
Experiences calling for meaning-making, such as encountering moral dilemmas or existential issues, are ineluctable in the everyday circumstances of persons on a geriatric ward, both patients and professionals. Narratives are a key form for constructing meaning and a powerful tool for expressing and understanding subjective experiences related to living and ageing. Furthermore, narratives can contribute to shifting healthcare towards a more person…
Asking how as a next step in avoiding dualistic perspectives on occupation
In their article “Filling in the gaps: A case for enhancing Madsen and Josephsson’s assertions about occupation, situation, and inquiry”, Aldrich and Cutchin (2017) responded to our article “Engagement in occupation as an inquiring process: Exploring the situatedness of occupation” with the ambition to enhance our assertions on occupation. In this reply, we argue that their text does not address the main arguments of our article. We further argue…
A move for framing occupation as transcending the individual
The notion that occupation is a phenomenon that transcends the individual has been a core element of reasoning on occupation over generations and cultures. When knowledge about what people do has b
Engagement in occupation as an inquiring process
A number of existing contributions within occupational science have explored the situatedness of occupation by asking what. We identify this perspective as limiting understandings of the relationship of situation and occupation. Instead, we propose using John Dewey’s theory of inquiry to explore the situatedness of occupation from the perspective of how situation and occupation work together. We argue that this approach can provide a theoretical …
Homeward bound
With a focus on enacted narratives, this ethnographic study addresses how people with mental illness communicate returning home after a treatment stay at a psychiatric centre. Data were analysed based on Ricoeur’s theory of narrative and action. Our analysis consisted of three analytic layers: the significant issue of discharge, identifying three stories of how being on the way home is enacted, and a further interpretation and discussion. The nar…
Meaning-Making in Everyday Occupation at a Psychiatric Centre
Experiences of meaning in everyday life are crucial for everyone, including people with mental illness, who often have specific challenges in providing themselves with engaging occupation and social relations. However, how meaning occurs in the occupational context of mental health care situations is unclear. This article draws upon an ethnographic study of social relations at a psychiatric centre, and explores how processes of meaning-making tak…
Social relations in everyday activities among patients with persistent mental illness at a psychiatric centre
Social relations benefit health but are challenging for people with persistent mental illness. Carrying out activities with other people facilitates social relations. What is less clear, however, is how social relations are established in everyday activities. The aim of this exploratory study is to gain an understanding of how social relations emerge in everyday activities among people with persistent mental illness. The study was inspired by eth…
Bridging through Occupation
Experiences of elderly survivors of human rights violations can inform understandings of occupation in relation to how people manage extreme situations and cope with them while growing older. Using a narrative approach, this study explored the importance of everyday life focused on elderly Chilean immigrants in Sweden, who had experienced human rights violations. Data were collected through participant observation and in-depth interviews and anal…
A Narrative of Agency Enacted within the Everyday Occupations of an Older Swedish Woman
This article explores how agency is enacted in everyday occupations with others and evolves over time. Agency is a complex concept that is closely linked to human occupation. By using a transactional perspective and a narrative approach, our ambition was to explore agency beyond individual acts or responsibilities. To achieve this, we used a story of an older woman in the context of being widowed and living with late-life depression. Data were ge…
Moving Beyond ‘Aging In Place’ to Understand Migration and Aging
Aging in place' has become a key conceptual framework for understanding and addressing place within the aging process. However, aging in place has been critiqued for not sufficiently providing tools to understand relations or transactions between aging and place, and for not matching the diversity of contemporary society in which people are moving between and across nations more than ever before. In this article, the authors draw from concepts of…
How do men with paraplegia choose activities in the light of striving for optimal participation? A qualitative study, based on a phenomenological–hermeneutical method
The objective of this study was to explore the experiences of men with paraplegia with regard to how they choose activities. The study involved a qualitative research design, based on a phenomenological-hermeneutical method. The findings revealed that the activities participants were choosing could be on a continuum between the individual's self and the influence from their environment. On this continuum, the choice to perform activities was infl…
Being part of an enacted togetherness
Stories stirring the quest of the good
This ethnography based study explored how four women living with chronic rheumatic conditions related to and communicated moral issues in their everyday activities. Narrative analyses were conducted and showed that the women linked everyday events and happenings to moral quests rather than to moral issues. The analyses are presented in the form of four stories, stories which are emplotted with different moral quests, quests that are grounded in t…
Theatre as liberation, collaboration and relationship for asylum seekers
This article focuses on theatre as an occupation for asylum seekers living in immigration centres. The aim is to describe the engagement of asylum seekers in a theatre production that presented their experiences. The participants (n = 11, M = 7, F = 4) came from a Norwegian reception centre for people seeking asylum and originated from Asia and Africa. The study had an ethnographic design and used participatory observations. Data was analysed usi…
What is participation? A story of mental illness, metaphor, & everyday occupation
The aim of this study is to explore experiences and enactment of participation through daily occupations. It extends the literature addressing the concept of participation, shedding light on participation as enacted through daily occupations among individuals living with mental illness. The authors attempt to provide a venue for persons with mental illness to be heard, while also juxtaposing the complexity of socio‐political tensions around parti…
Balancing the good - a critical discourse analysis of home modification services
Today an increasing number of people with functional limitations are ageing in their homes. Although the home has become an arena for assessment and implementation of services, little is known about how the interrelationships between ideological and practical circumstances influence the allocation of such welfare services. This explorative study applied a combination of critical discourse analysis and a narrative approach to closely examine such …
Social processes of participation in everyday life among persons with schizophrenia
Creating possibilities for action in the presence of environmental barriers in the process of ‘ageing in place’
The need for an understanding of ‘ageing in place’ as a progressive process has emerged among researchers in the field of environmental gerontology. The aim of this study was to explore this process, in relation to home modification services. Four older adults who had applied for home modification services in one Swedish municipality were included. Data were collected by open interviews with the participants in their homes on subsequent occasions…
Studying Narrative-in-Action in Women With Chronic Rheumatic Conditions
In this article we aim to sculpt a possible methodology for studying how a good everyday life comes about when living with chronic rheumatic conditions (CRC). Our "how" focus acknowledges a woman with CRC as one member of a diverse population, whereby we question the biomedically based view that she differs from the population. The more frequently asked "what" question colors study designs and results in categories and characteristics regarding w…
Studying Narrative-in-Action in Women With Chronic Rheumatic Conditions
In this article we aim to sculpt a possible methodology for studying how a good everyday life comes about when living with chronic rheumatic conditions (CRC). Our "how" focus acknowledges a woman with CRC as one member of a diverse population, whereby we question the biomedically based view that she differs from the population. The more frequently asked "what" question colors study designs and results in categories and characteristics regarding w…
Moving Beyond ‘Aging In Place’ to Understand Migration and Aging
Aging in place' has become a key conceptual framework for understanding and addressing place within the aging process. However, aging in place has been critiqued for not sufficiently providing tools to understand relations or transactions between aging and place, and for not matching the diversity of contemporary society in which people are moving between and across nations more than ever before. In this article, the authors draw from concepts of…
Engagement in occupation as an inquiring process
A number of existing contributions within occupational science have explored the situatedness of occupation by asking what. We identify this perspective as limiting understandings of the relationship of situation and occupation. Instead, we propose using John Dewey’s theory of inquiry to explore the situatedness of occupation from the perspective of how situation and occupation work together. We argue that this approach can provide a theoretical …
Creating possibilities for action in the presence of environmental barriers in the process of ‘ageing in place’
The need for an understanding of ‘ageing in place’ as a progressive process has emerged among researchers in the field of environmental gerontology. The aim of this study was to explore this process, in relation to home modification services. Four older adults who had applied for home modification services in one Swedish municipality were included. Data were collected by open interviews with the participants in their homes on subsequent occasions…
A Narrative of Agency Enacted within the Everyday Occupations of an Older Swedish Woman
This article explores how agency is enacted in everyday occupations with others and evolves over time. Agency is a complex concept that is closely linked to human occupation. By using a transactional perspective and a narrative approach, our ambition was to explore agency beyond individual acts or responsibilities. To achieve this, we used a story of an older woman in the context of being widowed and living with late-life depression. Data were ge…
What is participation? A story of mental illness, metaphor, & everyday occupation
The aim of this study is to explore experiences and enactment of participation through daily occupations. It extends the literature addressing the concept of participation, shedding light on participation as enacted through daily occupations among individuals living with mental illness. The authors attempt to provide a venue for persons with mental illness to be heard, while also juxtaposing the complexity of socio‐political tensions around parti…
Bridging through Occupation
Experiences of elderly survivors of human rights violations can inform understandings of occupation in relation to how people manage extreme situations and cope with them while growing older. Using a narrative approach, this study explored the importance of everyday life focused on elderly Chilean immigrants in Sweden, who had experienced human rights violations. Data were collected through participant observation and in-depth interviews and anal…
Theatre as liberation, collaboration and relationship for asylum seekers
This article focuses on theatre as an occupation for asylum seekers living in immigration centres. The aim is to describe the engagement of asylum seekers in a theatre production that presented their experiences. The participants (n = 11, M = 7, F = 4) came from a Norwegian reception centre for people seeking asylum and originated from Asia and Africa. The study had an ethnographic design and used participatory observations. Data was analysed usi…
A move for framing occupation as transcending the individual
The notion that occupation is a phenomenon that transcends the individual has been a core element of reasoning on occupation over generations and cultures. When knowledge about what people do has b
Being part of an enacted togetherness
To act in front of the stories
The focus of this Ruth Zemke lecture is to present and reflect on ways theoretical resources on narrative interpretation are relevant to some of the key tensions and challenges facing the study of human occupation and related practices today; The tensions between an individual and a social framing of human occupation, between a focus on identifying discrete elements of human occupation versus a processual focus on how human occupations unfold and…
Stories under construction
Experiences calling for meaning-making, such as encountering moral dilemmas or existential issues, are ineluctable in the everyday circumstances of persons on a geriatric ward, both patients and professionals. Narratives are a key form for constructing meaning and a powerful tool for expressing and understanding subjective experiences related to living and ageing. Furthermore, narratives can contribute to shifting healthcare towards a more person…
Meaning-Making in Everyday Occupation at a Psychiatric Centre
Experiences of meaning in everyday life are crucial for everyone, including people with mental illness, who often have specific challenges in providing themselves with engaging occupation and social relations. However, how meaning occurs in the occupational context of mental health care situations is unclear. This article draws upon an ethnographic study of social relations at a psychiatric centre, and explores how processes of meaning-making tak…
Balancing the good - a critical discourse analysis of home modification services
Today an increasing number of people with functional limitations are ageing in their homes. Although the home has become an arena for assessment and implementation of services, little is known about how the interrelationships between ideological and practical circumstances influence the allocation of such welfare services. This explorative study applied a combination of critical discourse analysis and a narrative approach to closely examine such …
An exploration of choir singing
This qualitative study explored the experience of choir singing as an example of a leisure occupation. Data were collected through participant observations during choir meetings and one‐to‐one interviews, and analyzed using a comparative, interpretive method. Three themes emerged. Although participants at times felt unsafe or restless, the choir generally functioned as a platform where they felt safe and connected to others. Choir singing was exp…
Vulnerability as a resource in understanding human occupation
Everyday influence – democracy when health and social care are part of everyday life
This article contributes to ongoing discussions about frailty and vulnerability in critical gerontology by asserting that possibilities to engage and enact influence in everyday life situations is a crucial dimension of democracy in later life. We discuss how democracy in this sense can be threatened for older persons for whom health and social care services are needed, following from the labelling practices of frailty and the non-recognition of …
The experience of sleep
Sleep is a frequently mentioned topic in current occupational science and occupational therapy literature, indicating an increasing interest in this occupation. However, we found a lack of understanding of the sleep experience in the literature. In our study, we sought to explore the experience of sleep among a sample of adults living in the Netherlands. We used a qualitative research design following descriptive phenomenology methodology. Data w…
Homeward bound
With a focus on enacted narratives, this ethnographic study addresses how people with mental illness communicate returning home after a treatment stay at a psychiatric centre. Data were analysed based on Ricoeur’s theory of narrative and action. Our analysis consisted of three analytic layers: the significant issue of discharge, identifying three stories of how being on the way home is enacted, and a further interpretation and discussion. The nar…
Social relations in everyday activities among patients with persistent mental illness at a psychiatric centre
Social relations benefit health but are challenging for people with persistent mental illness. Carrying out activities with other people facilitates social relations. What is less clear, however, is how social relations are established in everyday activities. The aim of this exploratory study is to gain an understanding of how social relations emerge in everyday activities among people with persistent mental illness. The study was inspired by eth…
An exploration of choir singing
This qualitative study explored the experience of choir singing as an example of a leisure occupation. Data were collected through participant observations during choir meetings and one‐to‐one interviews, and analyzed using a comparative, interpretive method. Three themes emerged. Although participants at times felt unsafe or restless, the choir generally functioned as a platform where they felt safe and connected to others. Choir singing was exp…
Social processes of participation in everyday life among persons with schizophrenia
Creating possibilities for action in the presence of environmental barriers in the process of ‘ageing in place’
The need for an understanding of ‘ageing in place’ as a progressive process has emerged among researchers in the field of environmental gerontology. The aim of this study was to explore this process, in relation to home modification services. Four older adults who had applied for home modification services in one Swedish municipality were included. Data were collected by open interviews with the participants in their homes on subsequent occasions…
Studying Narrative-in-Action in Women With Chronic Rheumatic Conditions
In this article we aim to sculpt a possible methodology for studying how a good everyday life comes about when living with chronic rheumatic conditions (CRC). Our "how" focus acknowledges a woman with CRC as one member of a diverse population, whereby we question the biomedically based view that she differs from the population. The more frequently asked "what" question colors study designs and results in categories and characteristics regarding w…
Stories stirring the quest of the good
This ethnography based study explored how four women living with chronic rheumatic conditions related to and communicated moral issues in their everyday activities. Narrative analyses were conducted and showed that the women linked everyday events and happenings to moral quests rather than to moral issues. The analyses are presented in the form of four stories, stories which are emplotted with different moral quests, quests that are grounded in t…
Theatre as liberation, collaboration and relationship for asylum seekers
This article focuses on theatre as an occupation for asylum seekers living in immigration centres. The aim is to describe the engagement of asylum seekers in a theatre production that presented their experiences. The participants (n = 11, M = 7, F = 4) came from a Norwegian reception centre for people seeking asylum and originated from Asia and Africa. The study had an ethnographic design and used participatory observations. Data was analysed usi…
What is participation? A story of mental illness, metaphor, & everyday occupation
The aim of this study is to explore experiences and enactment of participation through daily occupations. It extends the literature addressing the concept of participation, shedding light on participation as enacted through daily occupations among individuals living with mental illness. The authors attempt to provide a venue for persons with mental illness to be heard, while also juxtaposing the complexity of socio‐political tensions around parti…
Balancing the good - a critical discourse analysis of home modification services
Today an increasing number of people with functional limitations are ageing in their homes. Although the home has become an arena for assessment and implementation of services, little is known about how the interrelationships between ideological and practical circumstances influence the allocation of such welfare services. This explorative study applied a combination of critical discourse analysis and a narrative approach to closely examine such …
Moving Beyond ‘Aging In Place’ to Understand Migration and Aging
Aging in place' has become a key conceptual framework for understanding and addressing place within the aging process. However, aging in place has been critiqued for not sufficiently providing tools to understand relations or transactions between aging and place, and for not matching the diversity of contemporary society in which people are moving between and across nations more than ever before. In this article, the authors draw from concepts of…
How do men with paraplegia choose activities in the light of striving for optimal participation? A qualitative study, based on a phenomenological–hermeneutical method
The objective of this study was to explore the experiences of men with paraplegia with regard to how they choose activities. The study involved a qualitative research design, based on a phenomenological-hermeneutical method. The findings revealed that the activities participants were choosing could be on a continuum between the individual's self and the influence from their environment. On this continuum, the choice to perform activities was infl…
Being part of an enacted togetherness
Social relations in everyday activities among patients with persistent mental illness at a psychiatric centre
Social relations benefit health but are challenging for people with persistent mental illness. Carrying out activities with other people facilitates social relations. What is less clear, however, is how social relations are established in everyday activities. The aim of this exploratory study is to gain an understanding of how social relations emerge in everyday activities among people with persistent mental illness. The study was inspired by eth…
Bridging through Occupation
Experiences of elderly survivors of human rights violations can inform understandings of occupation in relation to how people manage extreme situations and cope with them while growing older. Using a narrative approach, this study explored the importance of everyday life focused on elderly Chilean immigrants in Sweden, who had experienced human rights violations. Data were collected through participant observation and in-depth interviews and anal…
A Narrative of Agency Enacted within the Everyday Occupations of an Older Swedish Woman
This article explores how agency is enacted in everyday occupations with others and evolves over time. Agency is a complex concept that is closely linked to human occupation. By using a transactional perspective and a narrative approach, our ambition was to explore agency beyond individual acts or responsibilities. To achieve this, we used a story of an older woman in the context of being widowed and living with late-life depression. Data were ge…
Meaning-Making in Everyday Occupation at a Psychiatric Centre
Experiences of meaning in everyday life are crucial for everyone, including people with mental illness, who often have specific challenges in providing themselves with engaging occupation and social relations. However, how meaning occurs in the occupational context of mental health care situations is unclear. This article draws upon an ethnographic study of social relations at a psychiatric centre, and explores how processes of meaning-making tak…
Homeward bound
With a focus on enacted narratives, this ethnographic study addresses how people with mental illness communicate returning home after a treatment stay at a psychiatric centre. Data were analysed based on Ricoeur’s theory of narrative and action. Our analysis consisted of three analytic layers: the significant issue of discharge, identifying three stories of how being on the way home is enacted, and a further interpretation and discussion. The nar…
Asking how as a next step in avoiding dualistic perspectives on occupation
In their article “Filling in the gaps: A case for enhancing Madsen and Josephsson’s assertions about occupation, situation, and inquiry”, Aldrich and Cutchin (2017) responded to our article “Engagement in occupation as an inquiring process: Exploring the situatedness of occupation” with the ambition to enhance our assertions on occupation. In this reply, we argue that their text does not address the main arguments of our article. We further argue…
A move for framing occupation as transcending the individual
The notion that occupation is a phenomenon that transcends the individual has been a core element of reasoning on occupation over generations and cultures. When knowledge about what people do has b
Engagement in occupation as an inquiring process
A number of existing contributions within occupational science have explored the situatedness of occupation by asking what. We identify this perspective as limiting understandings of the relationship of situation and occupation. Instead, we propose using John Dewey’s theory of inquiry to explore the situatedness of occupation from the perspective of how situation and occupation work together. We argue that this approach can provide a theoretical …
Stories under construction
Experiences calling for meaning-making, such as encountering moral dilemmas or existential issues, are ineluctable in the everyday circumstances of persons on a geriatric ward, both patients and professionals. Narratives are a key form for constructing meaning and a powerful tool for expressing and understanding subjective experiences related to living and ageing. Furthermore, narratives can contribute to shifting healthcare towards a more person…
Safeguarding fairness in assessments—How teachers develop joint practices
The experience of sleep
Sleep is a frequently mentioned topic in current occupational science and occupational therapy literature, indicating an increasing interest in this occupation. However, we found a lack of understanding of the sleep experience in the literature. In our study, we sought to explore the experience of sleep among a sample of adults living in the Netherlands. We used a qualitative research design following descriptive phenomenology methodology. Data w…
To act in front of the stories
The focus of this Ruth Zemke lecture is to present and reflect on ways theoretical resources on narrative interpretation are relevant to some of the key tensions and challenges facing the study of human occupation and related practices today; The tensions between an individual and a social framing of human occupation, between a focus on identifying discrete elements of human occupation versus a processual focus on how human occupations unfold and…
Everyday influence – democracy when health and social care are part of everyday life
This article contributes to ongoing discussions about frailty and vulnerability in critical gerontology by asserting that possibilities to engage and enact influence in everyday life situations is a crucial dimension of democracy in later life. We discuss how democracy in this sense can be threatened for older persons for whom health and social care services are needed, following from the labelling practices of frailty and the non-recognition of …
Vulnerability as a resource in understanding human occupation
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