OCC4030 · Occupational performance, capabilities and components

Overview

This unit introduces the mechanisms and consequences of problems related to mental, sensory, cardiovascular, respiratory, neurological and biomechanical capacities that underpin occupational engagement and occupational performance. You integrate this knowledge into OT and related theories/models of practice. You develop clinical questions, and acquire knowledge and skills from the process of describing and evaluating occupational performance, and critiquing assessment tools for evaluating occupational engagement/performance. You will explore different practice contexts in which participation in occupation takes place. Case scenarios will be used throughout and you will undertake practice-based learning for 2 days per week throughout the term (135 hours).

Areas of study: Occupational therapy

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook lists an examination for this unit.

Assessment in this unit includes hurdle assessment tasks. Failure of any hurdle assessment task may result in failure of the unit.

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

Learning outcomes

1. Demonstrate and apply skills in self reflection, critical appraisal, critical reasoning and critical thinking skills to case-based learning and to practice education, and behave in a manner appropriate for professional practice in both the academic and clinical environment, including interacting respectfully with different members of the health care team, consumers and carers.
2. Recognize the challenges and rights of consumers and carers, and integrate their lived experience of health methods into service planning and delivery by acknowledging their expertise.
3. Describe the importance of multicultural diversity and cultural relationships to professional practice.
4. Explain the mechanisms and consequences of problems related to mental/psychosocial, physical and social capacities of humans, across the lifespan and apply knowledge of body functions, body structures and related clinical conditions to occupational performance challenges for clients of occupational therapy.
5. Describe and apply key theoretical models of human occupation to client-centred occupational therapy assessment, goal setting, intervention, and follow-up evaluation.
6. Describe and apply the principles of occupational analysis and grading and adaptation of occupations to a therapy situation.
7. Describe and apply the clinical reasoning process to the occupational therapy process and formulate appropriate occupational therapy goals and objectives for specific clients.
8. Select, administer and critique assessment methods used in occupational therapy practice including initial assessment interview using this information to evaluate occupational performance and occupational engagement.
9. Accurately record and document professional information.
10. Locate, retrieve and use resources to inform decision making about health and occupational issues.

Workload

This unit will run for 9 weeks of academic/placement followed by one week Swot Vac, one week of exams, and one week vacation. As this is an accelerated program, the workload demands are more than would be expected of an undergraduate 12 credit point unit as it is run over 9 rather than 12 weeks. • 4 hours per week SBL tutorials • 2.7 hours per week seminars • 4.2 hours per week workshop and practical activities • 2 days per week practice education placement (weeks 3-9) • 12 hours per week of self-directed study Practice Education Placement (PEP) (weeks 3-9) Up to 12 hours per week. Placement will require you to travel to placement locations. These may be near or away from the campus.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.