OCC404 Enabling Strategies: Specialist Areas of Practice (16)
CSU Discipline Area: Allied Health (ALHEA)
Duration: One session
Abstract:
This subject presents specialised areas of occupational therapy practice. It concentrates on both occupational therapy specific skills and practice areas, plus uses multidisciplinary teaching staff and external clinicians to broaden practice areas and approaches presented. The subject is taught in modules to incorporate a range of practice areas. Specific focus includes advanced psychosocial practice, aged care, child and family studies and advanced rehabilitation, work rehabilitation and working with well communities. The content of this subject is flexible to be responsive to changes within the profession and to student interest.
To engage in this subject effectively, students should be able to critique the complexities of occupational therapy practice in context; carry a case-load expected of an entry level occupational therapist dependent on placement setting; implement well reasoned and appropriate enabling strategies; evaluate the effectiveness of the enabling strategies programs; and achieve a satisfactory for all competencies listed on the fieldwork assessment evaluation form.
+ Subject Availability Modes and Locations
| Session 2 | |
|---|---|
| Internal | Albury-Wodonga |
Continuing students should consult the SAL for current offering details: OCC404
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:
- demonstrate knowledge of a number of different specialist occupational therapy practice areas and skills.
- critically review practice approaches.
- demonstrate an ability to evaluate and enable occupation for a range of client groups.
- plan and implement appropriate occupational therapy intervention strategies in various health and human service settings.
- demonstrate abilities in clinical reasoning in simulated complex situations.
Syllabus:
The subject will cover the following topics:
(Specific sessions within each topic will be determined annually based on current trends in occupational therapy practice and student interest): - Advanced rehabilitation (e.g.spinal cord injury, dynamic splinting, community rehabilitation) - Aged Care (e.g. policy and government directions, mental health in aged care, dementia management) - Family and children (e.g. working with adolescents, children with autism, early intervention approaches and models) - Advanced psychosocial practice (e.g. community management, specific conditions, assessment) - Case Management (e.g. vocational rehabilitation, intellectual disability, traumatic brain injury) - Working with communities (e.g. rural and remote practice, refugees, working in a majority world, community based rehabilitation) - Mini-workshops run by students based on their sharing their clinical experience
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.