OCC201 Occupational Therapy Processes (16)
CSU Discipline Area: Allied Health (ALHEA)
Duration: Two sessions
Abstract:
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; identify 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.
+ Subject Availability Modes and Locations
| Session 1 | |
|---|---|
| Internal | Albury-Wodonga | Session 2 |
| Internal | Albury-Wodonga |
Continuing students should consult the SAL for current offering details: OCC201
Where differences exist between the Handbook and the SAL, the SAL should be taken as containing the correct subject offering details.
Enrolment restrictions:
Student must be enrolled in Bachelor of Occupational Therapy
Objectives:
Upon successful completion of this subject, 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;
- write negotiated occupation focused and person-centred goals and intervention plans.
Syllabus:
The subject will cover the following topics:
- Reasoning processes utilised in occupational therapy - Models focusing on human occupation and occupational engagement - Frames of reference that influence or are utilised in occupational therapy - Justification for, planning and implementation of assessments appropriate to occupational therapy - Assessments focusing on occupational performance and occupational engagement - Assessments focusing on performance components - Assessments focusing on environment and context - Negotiated occupation focused and person-centred goals - Occupation focused and person-centred intervention plans
Workplace Learning
This subject contains a Workplace Learning component. Please contact the subject coordinator for further information.
The information contained in the 2013 CSU Handbook was accurate at the date of publication: 24 April 2013. The University reserves the right to vary the information at any time without notice.