OCC304 Enabling Strategies: Working with Communities (8)
Enrolment Restriction: Students must be enrolled in Bachelor of Occupational Therapy or Bachelor of Occupational Therapy(Honours)
This subject focuses on participatory ways in which occupational therapists work collaboratively with members of diverse communities. It moves beyond individualistic approaches to health and examines the concepts within public health, primary health, health promotion and community development. Regional, state, national and international perspectives and policies relating to health and wellbeing are explored and students are asked to consider how these perspectives impact on the particular needs of 'at risk' populations.
To engage in this subject effectively, students should be able to demonstrate use of the occupational therapy reasoning process at a novice level; identify and discuss the use of a range of occupation-based models and other relevant frames of reference; describe and justify assessment choices appropriate to occupational therapy practice; plan and implement a range of assessments appropriate to occupational therapy practice; and write negotiated occupation focused and
person-centred goals and intervention plans.