Lisette Farias
Biographic Data
| ID | 3748873 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lisette Farias |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lisette |
| FAMILY NAME | Farias |
| SIGNATURE | FARÍAS L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Karolinska Institutet |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4238-3049 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 99 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Are we in this together? Exploring occupations in home care by applying the concept of enacted togetherness
This narrative-in-action study applied the concept of enacted togetherness within the context of home care. The focus was on the unfolding of occupations among home care workers in their work with older persons. Using a transactional perspective, this study considers how the home care context—including persons, materials, and spaces—shapes occupations and the experience of enacted togetherness. Temporal weavings of past experiences, present circu…
Using Vignettes in Interviews to Enhance Reflexivity and Sense Making of Violence With Persons With Cognitive Disabilities
People with cognitive disabilities are often excluded from research due to the inaccessibility of methods and assessment tools. Critical challenges include ensuring self-determination, developing inclusive recruitment methods, and enabling effective communication, all of which are essential to inclusive research. This article describes the use of graphic vignettes—illustrating various forms of violence—combined with semi-structured interviews as …
School-based intervention to improve mental health, cognitive function, and academic performance in adolescents
The trial was retrospectively registered on April 27, 2021. ISRCTN78666212
Dialogue about violence with victims with cognitive disabilities
Dialogues between professionals and clients in social work are central to identifying and providing support for violence in close relationships. How professionals approach dialogues about violence in close relationships with clients with cognitive disabilities, and associated challenges to making them accessible, are understudied. Semi-structured interviews with 18 professionals in disability services, domestic violence shelters, social services,…
The open health-promoting activities programme
To develop tailored family-based programmes in socioeconomically deprived communities, it is crucial to understand parents' experiences and perceptions of aspects that facilitate their children's engagement in physical activity. The findings suggest that emphasising equal opportunities, a safe space approach and participation are essential for increasing family engagement in physical activity. These elements also supported increasing parents' awa…
Stakeholders’ perspectives on barriers and facilitators to implementing extra physical activity in secondary schools to improve adolescents' health and academic performance
Introduction There is an association between physical activity and both health and academic performance. However, there is still a lack of consensus on how to engage adolescents in physical activity interventions in secondary schools. One approach to better understand the activities and strategies supporting effective implementation is to involve school staff and adolescents in the early stages of planning and preparing for interventions. Therefo…
How media representations shape the occupational possibilities of children in poverty in Austria
Artikelsprache ist Englisch, Abstract in mehreren Sprachen vorhanden
Problematising what constitutes a ‘true’ examination of personal narratives
Ciencia ocupacional de otro modo
Occupational science otherwise
Unpacking the middle-class worldview in occupational science using cultural-historical activity theory
Building a healthy generation together
The program's activities allowed parents to connect with their children and other families in their community, and (re)discover physical activity by promoting a sense of community and safety. Implications for practice include developing culturally sensitive activities that are accessible to and take place in public spaces for ethnically diverse groups, including health coordinators that can facilitate communication between groups. To enhance the …
Challenging the gender binary in occupation-based research
Gender is a constitutive element of an oppressive system based on sexual differentiation. Making difference between the female and male sexes is an accepted practice that is particularly widespread in scientific research. Yet, this research practice can contribute to the construction of gender as an oppressive system with consequences for people’s occupations and health. The aim of the present study is to address the potential contribution of occ…
Adolescents’ experiences of a school-based health promotion intervention in socioeconomically advantaged and disadvantaged areas in Sweden
Socioeconomic factors influence participants' possibilities to engage in the intervention activities as well as how they use their time in the activities. This study showed that it is crucial to support adolescents' participation in physical activities by providing structure and engaging well-known teachers in the activities, especially in schools located in disadvantaged areas
Addressing the gender construct in occupation-based research
[Abstract] In the context of a critical and transformational agenda, there is a need to discuss the relationship among social categories–including gender and occupation–in occupational therapy and occupational science-related research. This scoping review aimed to address how the concept of gender has been dealt with in scientific publications in order to provide a vision of how it has been used, defined, and explored throughout the history of th…
Exploring doing activism as a means for political action and social transformation in Germany
Activism is what people do to bring about social transformation. Yet, there is scarce research on activism and its shaping of everyday life in occupational science. Understanding activism as a product of collective doing in specific contexts can contribute to current debates about the political nature of occupation and processes of social transformation through occupation. Therefore, the aim of this study was explore the doing of activism by peop…
Special Issue
Commentary on “The development of occupational science outside the Anglophone sphere
KEYWORDS: Occupational scienceAnti-racismOppressionGlobal collaborationCiencia ocupacionalAnti racismoOpresiónColaboración globalPALABRAS CLAVE: Ciencia ocupacionalAnti racismoOpresiónColaboración global
A Pledge to Mobilize Against Racism – Translated
The members of the Journal of Occupational Science issued a pledge to mobilize against racism in August 2020. Part of that pledge was an undertaking to “mentor and encourage authors and reviewers t
Promoting critically informed learning and knowing about occupation through conference engagements
As occupation-focused discussions and applications of critical theoretical perspectives increase, attention must also be paid to how different spaces of knowledge dissemination, exchange, and production support critically informed learning and knowing about occupation. This paper presents the reflections of a group of international scholars and lecturers whose shared interest in critical theoretical perspectives prompted the incremental co-develo…
A Pledge to Mobilize Against Racism
Dear Colleagues, The murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, USA is yet another signifier of the persistent and systemic racism that pervades communities internationally. His death at police hands i
Challenging conceptualisations of work
This article draws on empirically derived illustrations of return to work and unemployment to critically explore how a narrow understanding of work pervades contemporary social policies and programmes. This is particularly relevant in economic and labour market transitions aligned with neoliberalism that individualise the social problem of unemployment and thus restrict occupational possibilities related to work. An overview of how work and relat…
Deepening our collective understanding of decolonising education
This invited commentary responds to Simaan’s (2020) article, which highlights a decolonising learning activity centred on a study from a Global South community. It extends the theoretical discussion in Simaan’s article, highlighting how Santos’ intercultural translation and Paulo Freire’s work can deepen a decolonised approach to occupations and teaching occupations. This commentary raises concerns that teaching decolonised pedagogies in a predom…
The sociocultural shaping of mothers’ doing, being, becoming and belonging after returning to work
The aim of this study was to explore the influence of social ideologies on the doing, being, becoming, and belonging of Western employed professional women who are new mothers, after returning to work outside the home within the first 18 months after giving birth. Although occupational science has provided valuable insights into mothering occupations, it perpetuates an individualistic focus that often neglects the complex and multifaceted societa…
Introduction to the Anti-Racism Virtual Issue of the Journal of Occupational Science
The anti-racism virtual issue of the Journal of Occupational Science (JOS) came about after the Editorial Board expressed its commitment to anti-racist work, publishing the position statement ‘A Pledge to Mobilize Against Racism’ (Stanley et al., 2020). In this statement, the Board promised to republish a collection of articles to call attention to racism and its impact on individuals’ doing and society. The intent is to stimulate critical reflec…
A Critical Interpretive Synthesis of the Uptake of Critical Perspectives in Occupational Science
An emancipatory agenda is emerging within occupational science, building on the work of scholars who have advocated for a more critical, reflexive and socially responsive discipline. Although several analyses of the discipline's genesis and underpinning paradigms have been presented and there has been an increasing use of critical approaches in recent publications, little is known about how critical perspectives have been taken up in the occupati…
Reclaiming the Potential of Transformative Scholarship to Enable Social Justice
Scholars within critical qualitative inquiry and health sciences are becoming increasingly interested in transformative scholarship as a means to pursue greater justice in society. However, transformative scholarship has been taken up within frameworks that given a lack of consistent alignment with the critical paradigm seem to fall short in this intention. This article aims to reclaim transformative scholarship as an epistemological and methodol…
The Family Knot”
This study explored how multiple cultures and identities are negotiated through family-orchestrated occupations in the context of international migration. Immigrant families often bring aspects of their past traditions into the lifestyles typical of their new host country, which can lead to dramatic changes in family life. In this narrative study, ethnographic methods were also used to gather data with one family who emigrated from Latin America …
Promoting critically informed learning and knowing about occupation through conference engagements
As occupation-focused discussions and applications of critical theoretical perspectives increase, attention must also be paid to how different spaces of knowledge dissemination, exchange, and production support critically informed learning and knowing about occupation. This paper presents the reflections of a group of international scholars and lecturers whose shared interest in critical theoretical perspectives prompted the incremental co-develo…
The sociocultural shaping of mothers’ doing, being, becoming and belonging after returning to work
The aim of this study was to explore the influence of social ideologies on the doing, being, becoming, and belonging of Western employed professional women who are new mothers, after returning to work outside the home within the first 18 months after giving birth. Although occupational science has provided valuable insights into mothering occupations, it perpetuates an individualistic focus that often neglects the complex and multifaceted societa…
Challenging the gender binary in occupation-based research
Gender is a constitutive element of an oppressive system based on sexual differentiation. Making difference between the female and male sexes is an accepted practice that is particularly widespread in scientific research. Yet, this research practice can contribute to the construction of gender as an oppressive system with consequences for people’s occupations and health. The aim of the present study is to address the potential contribution of occ…
Introduction to the Anti-Racism Virtual Issue of the Journal of Occupational Science
The anti-racism virtual issue of the Journal of Occupational Science (JOS) came about after the Editorial Board expressed its commitment to anti-racist work, publishing the position statement ‘A Pledge to Mobilize Against Racism’ (Stanley et al., 2020). In this statement, the Board promised to republish a collection of articles to call attention to racism and its impact on individuals’ doing and society. The intent is to stimulate critical reflec…
Deepening our collective understanding of decolonising education
This invited commentary responds to Simaan’s (2020) article, which highlights a decolonising learning activity centred on a study from a Global South community. It extends the theoretical discussion in Simaan’s article, highlighting how Santos’ intercultural translation and Paulo Freire’s work can deepen a decolonised approach to occupations and teaching occupations. This commentary raises concerns that teaching decolonised pedagogies in a predom…
Exploring doing activism as a means for political action and social transformation in Germany
Activism is what people do to bring about social transformation. Yet, there is scarce research on activism and its shaping of everyday life in occupational science. Understanding activism as a product of collective doing in specific contexts can contribute to current debates about the political nature of occupation and processes of social transformation through occupation. Therefore, the aim of this study was explore the doing of activism by peop…
How media representations shape the occupational possibilities of children in poverty in Austria
Artikelsprache ist Englisch, Abstract in mehreren Sprachen vorhanden
Problematising what constitutes a ‘true’ examination of personal narratives
Unpacking the middle-class worldview in occupational science using cultural-historical activity theory
Challenging conceptualisations of work
This article draws on empirically derived illustrations of return to work and unemployment to critically explore how a narrow understanding of work pervades contemporary social policies and programmes. This is particularly relevant in economic and labour market transitions aligned with neoliberalism that individualise the social problem of unemployment and thus restrict occupational possibilities related to work. An overview of how work and relat…
Transnational Information Politics and the “Child Migration Crisis”
Sharp increases in “child migrants” from Central America detained at the US border in 2014 brought unprecedented levels of attention to long extant social and political issues perceived as causing youth migration. While governments on both sides of the US border faced criticism over responses to the migration “crisis,” the presumed causes of this migration presented in US media discourses went largely unquestioned. This article presents data coll…
The Family Knot”
This study explored how multiple cultures and identities are negotiated through family-orchestrated occupations in the context of international migration. Immigrant families often bring aspects of their past traditions into the lifestyles typical of their new host country, which can lead to dramatic changes in family life. In this narrative study, ethnographic methods were also used to gather data with one family who emigrated from Latin America …
A Critical Interpretive Synthesis of the Uptake of Critical Perspectives in Occupational Science
An emancipatory agenda is emerging within occupational science, building on the work of scholars who have advocated for a more critical, reflexive and socially responsive discipline. Although several analyses of the discipline's genesis and underpinning paradigms have been presented and there has been an increasing use of critical approaches in recent publications, little is known about how critical perspectives have been taken up in the occupati…
Illustrating the Importance of Critical Epistemology to Realize the Promise of Occupational Justice
This article argues that it is vital to embrace critical reflexivity to interrogate the epistemological beliefs and principles guiding occupation-based scholarship to move away from frameworks that are incongruent with calls for occupational justice. For this purpose, we describe an epistemic tension between the stated intentions to demonstrate that occupation-based work can be a means to create a more just society and the epistemological beliefs…
Transnational Information Politics and the “Child Migration Crisis”
Sharp increases in “child migrants” from Central America detained at the US border in 2014 brought unprecedented levels of attention to long extant social and political issues perceived as causing youth migration. While governments on both sides of the US border faced criticism over responses to the migration “crisis,” the presumed causes of this migration presented in US media discourses went largely unquestioned. This article presents data coll…
Reclaiming the Potential of Transformative Scholarship to Enable Social Justice
Scholars within critical qualitative inquiry and health sciences are becoming increasingly interested in transformative scholarship as a means to pursue greater justice in society. However, transformative scholarship has been taken up within frameworks that given a lack of consistent alignment with the critical paradigm seem to fall short in this intention. This article aims to reclaim transformative scholarship as an epistemological and methodol…
The development of occupational science outside the Anglophone sphere
The emergence of occupational science in non-English speaking countries is frequently hampered by diverse barriers to global collaboration, knowledge dissemination, and inclusion in international dialogue. Epistemological, cultural, and institutional resources may explain these barriers, yet these have not been explored within the discipline. This paper discusses three main issues and three priorities for action put forward by participants during…
El desarrollo de la ciencia ocupacional fuera del ámbito anglófono
El desarrollo de la ciencia ocupacional en países no anglófonos enfrenta constantes barreras que impactan su participación en instancias de colaboración global, en la difusión del conocimiento y en el diálogo a nivel internacional. Algunos de estos obstáculos se deben a motivos epistemológicos, culturales e incluso institucionales y aún no han sido estudiados en el interior de la propia disciplina. Este artículo discute tres problemas principales…
A Pledge to Mobilize Against Racism
Dear Colleagues, The murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, USA is yet another signifier of the persistent and systemic racism that pervades communities internationally. His death at police hands i
Challenging conceptualisations of work
This article draws on empirically derived illustrations of return to work and unemployment to critically explore how a narrow understanding of work pervades contemporary social policies and programmes. This is particularly relevant in economic and labour market transitions aligned with neoliberalism that individualise the social problem of unemployment and thus restrict occupational possibilities related to work. An overview of how work and relat…
Deepening our collective understanding of decolonising education
This invited commentary responds to Simaan’s (2020) article, which highlights a decolonising learning activity centred on a study from a Global South community. It extends the theoretical discussion in Simaan’s article, highlighting how Santos’ intercultural translation and Paulo Freire’s work can deepen a decolonised approach to occupations and teaching occupations. This commentary raises concerns that teaching decolonised pedagogies in a predom…
The sociocultural shaping of mothers’ doing, being, becoming and belonging after returning to work
The aim of this study was to explore the influence of social ideologies on the doing, being, becoming, and belonging of Western employed professional women who are new mothers, after returning to work outside the home within the first 18 months after giving birth. Although occupational science has provided valuable insights into mothering occupations, it perpetuates an individualistic focus that often neglects the complex and multifaceted societa…
Introduction to the Anti-Racism Virtual Issue of the Journal of Occupational Science
The anti-racism virtual issue of the Journal of Occupational Science (JOS) came about after the Editorial Board expressed its commitment to anti-racist work, publishing the position statement ‘A Pledge to Mobilize Against Racism’ (Stanley et al., 2020). In this statement, the Board promised to republish a collection of articles to call attention to racism and its impact on individuals’ doing and society. The intent is to stimulate critical reflec…
Commentary on “The development of occupational science outside the Anglophone sphere
KEYWORDS: Occupational scienceAnti-racismOppressionGlobal collaborationCiencia ocupacionalAnti racismoOpresiónColaboración globalPALABRAS CLAVE: Ciencia ocupacionalAnti racismoOpresiónColaboración global
A Pledge to Mobilize Against Racism – Translated
The members of the Journal of Occupational Science issued a pledge to mobilize against racism in August 2020. Part of that pledge was an undertaking to “mentor and encourage authors and reviewers t
Promoting critically informed learning and knowing about occupation through conference engagements
As occupation-focused discussions and applications of critical theoretical perspectives increase, attention must also be paid to how different spaces of knowledge dissemination, exchange, and production support critically informed learning and knowing about occupation. This paper presents the reflections of a group of international scholars and lecturers whose shared interest in critical theoretical perspectives prompted the incremental co-develo…
Addressing the gender construct in occupation-based research
[Abstract] In the context of a critical and transformational agenda, there is a need to discuss the relationship among social categories–including gender and occupation–in occupational therapy and occupational science-related research. This scoping review aimed to address how the concept of gender has been dealt with in scientific publications in order to provide a vision of how it has been used, defined, and explored throughout the history of th…
Exploring doing activism as a means for political action and social transformation in Germany
Activism is what people do to bring about social transformation. Yet, there is scarce research on activism and its shaping of everyday life in occupational science. Understanding activism as a product of collective doing in specific contexts can contribute to current debates about the political nature of occupation and processes of social transformation through occupation. Therefore, the aim of this study was explore the doing of activism by peop…
Special Issue
Adolescents’ experiences of a school-based health promotion intervention in socioeconomically advantaged and disadvantaged areas in Sweden
Socioeconomic factors influence participants' possibilities to engage in the intervention activities as well as how they use their time in the activities. This study showed that it is crucial to support adolescents' participation in physical activities by providing structure and engaging well-known teachers in the activities, especially in schools located in disadvantaged areas
Building a healthy generation together
The program's activities allowed parents to connect with their children and other families in their community, and (re)discover physical activity by promoting a sense of community and safety. Implications for practice include developing culturally sensitive activities that are accessible to and take place in public spaces for ethnically diverse groups, including health coordinators that can facilitate communication between groups. To enhance the …
Challenging the gender binary in occupation-based research
Gender is a constitutive element of an oppressive system based on sexual differentiation. Making difference between the female and male sexes is an accepted practice that is particularly widespread in scientific research. Yet, this research practice can contribute to the construction of gender as an oppressive system with consequences for people’s occupations and health. The aim of the present study is to address the potential contribution of occ…
Dialogue about violence with victims with cognitive disabilities
Dialogues between professionals and clients in social work are central to identifying and providing support for violence in close relationships. How professionals approach dialogues about violence in close relationships with clients with cognitive disabilities, and associated challenges to making them accessible, are understudied. Semi-structured interviews with 18 professionals in disability services, domestic violence shelters, social services,…
The open health-promoting activities programme
To develop tailored family-based programmes in socioeconomically deprived communities, it is crucial to understand parents' experiences and perceptions of aspects that facilitate their children's engagement in physical activity. The findings suggest that emphasising equal opportunities, a safe space approach and participation are essential for increasing family engagement in physical activity. These elements also supported increasing parents' awa…
Stakeholders’ perspectives on barriers and facilitators to implementing extra physical activity in secondary schools to improve adolescents' health and academic performance
Introduction There is an association between physical activity and both health and academic performance. However, there is still a lack of consensus on how to engage adolescents in physical activity interventions in secondary schools. One approach to better understand the activities and strategies supporting effective implementation is to involve school staff and adolescents in the early stages of planning and preparing for interventions. Therefo…
How media representations shape the occupational possibilities of children in poverty in Austria
Artikelsprache ist Englisch, Abstract in mehreren Sprachen vorhanden
Sociology (22 works) · Psychology (21 works) · Occupational Therapy Practice and Research (19 works) · Occupational science (18 works) · Political science (16 works) · Occupational Therapy (13 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · Epistemology (10 works) · Social science (9 works)