OCC201 Occupational Therapy Processes (16)
Enrolment Restriction: Student must be enrolled in Bachelor of Occupational Therapy
This subject enables students to learn about processes of decision-making in occupational therapy practice, including understanding theories that inform occupational therapy. Students will begin to develop skills in applying theory and decision-making particularly in relation to completing the assessment phase of occupational therapy and developing collaborative occupation and person centred goals and intervention plans.
To engage in this subject effectively, students should be able to define occupation and occupational therapy; discuss how humans use and structure their time through engaging in occupation; demonstrate the importance of occupation to humans across the life-span; outline the history and philosophical foundations of occupational therapy as a profession; explain the relationship between occupation, performance components and occupational performance; conduct analyses of occupations with a focus on time use and be able to complete basic assessments of performance; iden
tify and implement techniques used in communicating with a broad range of people, including clients, families and carers of clients and other health professionals; and demonstrate rudimentary skills in counselling and interviewing.