A contribuição da hermenêutica crítica de Jürgen Habermas para a Terapia Ocupacional Social

This critical reflection addresses the contribution of the philosophical framework of Jürgen Habermas to the social practice of occupational therapy. Occupational therapy has been consolidated in social contexts providing care to people, groups and populations in situations of social vulnerability, which according to a political-economic orientation, includes poverty, unemployment, and ruptured social support networks. Objective:\udTo discuss the contributions of Habermas’s Theory of Communicative Action to occupational therapy in social\udcontexts through the notion of consensus, founded as a forum of mutual understanding between males and females about something in the world of life. Method and discussion: We also seek to propose a reflection showing how Habermas’s theory is useful in the construction of coping strategies to deal with social issues, through democratic consensus toward the production of action projects based on inter-sector cooperation between public administration and civil society. We also focus on the experience of occupational therapy in the social field that the Occupational\udTherapy program administered by the University of Sao Paulo - USP at Ribeirao Preto has carried out with homeless individuals and proposed a strategy of inter-sector cooperation to develop public policies and action strategies to fight poverty and social vulnerabilit