Scoping review of the relationship between occupational science and professional identity in Japan

Abstract

This scoping review aimed to determine the current state of the relationship between professional identity (PI) and occupational science (OS) for occupational practitioners in Japan. The findings extracted 14 articles from CiNii, Ichushi, and hand-searches of which 7 articles were related to PI and OS or occupation. Learning about occupation established occupational therapy specialties and affected occupational therapy practice. However, in some situations, it was impossible to fully use occupational knowledge, and the subjects sometimes gave up on forming a PI as an OTR involved in occupation. In the future, we need to organize PI of OTR and examine the use of occupational science in occupation-based practice.