Boundaries and Bridges to Adult Mental Health: Critical Occupational and Capabilities Perspectives of Justice

There is general agreement that mental health is a foundation for living well. Unfortunately, approximately 20% of people around the world will experience a mental health issue at some point. Although bridges to adult mental health, such as community programming, exist in some settings, one routine boundary is exclusion from everyday occupations, using the occupational science and occupational therapy definition of occupations encompassing what people need and want to do and be in occupying everyday life in context. The 2nd Townsend and Polatajko Lectureship invites interdisciplinary knowledge exchange with a critical occupational perspective on the question: What lessons on boundaries and bridges to adult mental health can be drawn by connecting the capabilities and occupational frameworks of justice? Using an institutional textual analysis, the Lectureship focuses on three lessons drawn from connecting the 2010 Framework of Occupational Justice (FOJ) and the 2006 Central Human Capabilities Framework (CHCF).