The Association of Canadian Occupational Therapy Regulatory Organizations (ACOTRO), the Association of Canadian Occupational Therapy University Programs (ACOTUP), the Canadian Association of Occupational Therapists (CAOT), the Canadian Occupational Therapy Foundation (COTF), and the Occupational Therapy Professional Alliance of Canada (PAC) agree that occupational therapy as a profession seeks to enable all people to participate to their fullest potential in the activities of everyday living. To do so requires taking into account social and cultural differences, particularly how those affect therapy encounters.
The five organizations strongly encourage practice, research, education and theory development in occupational therapy that attend to the full range of social and cultural diversity, critically examining biases embedded in the profession, power relations between clients and therapists, power relations within the profession, and connections between individual experiences and broader social structures.
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