FROM THE MAGICAL PARADOX TO CLINICAL INVESTIGATION: RESEARCH, PRACTICE AND OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY

Abstract

This article aimed discusses the about clinical and research trajectory of a professional,highlighting the training method in Dynamic Occupational Therapy Method. For this method, theinvestigation of occupational therapy practice in the central axis is for the production of practicalknowledge, searching for generalizations and theories that support this practice, to demystifywhat is seems to be magical, incomprehensible and difficult to be transmitted. In this essaypresents outlines of research in this direction. In the present scenario of growing of scientificproduction, is expected to submit questions valuing aspects of research practice in occupationaltherapy in Brazil, to stimulate debate about research and clinical care, in a dialogue that gives totclinical professional practice a prominent place for the academic and scientific productions.

Descriptors: Occupational Therapy; Research; Health knowledge, attitudes, practice.