OCC300 Enabling Strategies: Working with Individuals (16)
CSU Discipline Area: Allied Health (ALHEA)
Duration: One session
Abstract:
This subject focuses on strategies that occupational therapists use to facilitate occupational engagement of individuals who have an occupational dysfunction as a result of physical, social, emotional or cognitive disorders. Students will develop skills in the practical application of occupational reasoning and theoretical principles, related to specific conditions. Students will develop their reasoning skills to facilitate program planning, implementation and evaluation of appropriate enabling strategies when working with children, adolescents, adults and older people. This subject will provide an integrated approach to the theory and practice of working with individuals in a variety of settings.
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.
+ Subject Availability Modes and Locations
| Session 1 | |
|---|---|
| Internal | Albury-Wodonga |
Continuing students should consult the SAL for current offering details: OCC300
Where differences exist between the Handbook and the SAL, the SAL should be taken as containing the correct subject offering details.
Enrolment restrictions:
Students must be enrolled in Bachelor of Occupational Therapy or Bachelor of Occupational Therapy(Honours)
Objectives:
Upon successful completion of this subject, students should:
be able to:
- evaluate the effects that physical, social, cognitive and emotional impairments may have on occupational performance;
- plan and implement suitable assessment approaches for individuals with impairments;
- plan and implement a range of strategies to enable an individual to enagage in relevant occupations;
- demonstrate abilities of planning and implementing appropriate enabling strategies in both oral and written reports utilising client case examples.
Syllabus:
The subject will cover the following topics:
- Interpretation of occupation and performance component assessment - Planning, implementation and justification of enabling strategies and approaches - Enabling strategies and approaches used by occupational therapists working with children, adolescents, adults and older people - Enabling strategies of self-care, play and leisure, education - Biomechanical and sensory strategies - Neurological strategies - Psychosocial strategies - Cognitive and perceptual strategies - Evaluating the effectiveness of intervention strategies and approaches
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.