OCC5050 · Enabling occupation 2

Overview

In this second intervention unit, you will further describe, apply, and critique the principles of assessment and intervention for individuals and groups of clients who are restricted in their ability to engage in activities, occupations, and participate in community life. Intervention principles will also incorporate environmental supports and barriers (e.g. advocacy, organisational and system change, workforce development, environmental adaptation) and be grounded in evidence-based practice. The common characteristics of primary health care will form the framework including issues of expanded access, multi-professional service teams, optimal service coordination, service reconfiguration, and a focus on service user engagement, collaboration, and empowerment. This unit also gives you an advanced overview of the skills necessary to critique and evaluate research evidence and in preparing reports for and presenting to organisational management. In doing so, you will be introduced to the nature and scope of organisational decision making and service system funding that relate to primary health care, as well as to methodologies related to evaluating, using, and undertaking research to inform this work. This will provide the foundation to integrate clinically relevant evidence into daily professional practice as well as to the knowledge and skills needed to affect change and development at the practice, workforce, organisational, and system levels. Within this unit you will also complete a learning module “Allies in Indigenous Health 2” to develop and strengthen skills in anti-racist practice and collaborative care when working with Indigenous peoples. A practice education block of 3 weeks full time will conclude the term (112 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 responsibility for your own attitudes and behaviour, and maintain the legal, ethical, and professional standards and emergency procedures set by the fieldwork facility, Monash University, and OT AUSTRALIA code of ethics;
2. Evaluate contextual factors that impact clients’ occupational issues from biopsychosocial, organisational, workforce and systemic perspectives;
3. Analyse and explain the ways in which culture, multicultural contexts, and diversities inform professional practice;
4. Implement critical reasoning in the development and implementation of occupationally relevant and service user-focused intervention strategies;
5. Critique the evidence available for individual and group-focused occupational therapy intervention strategies to address occupational performance issues and challenges;
6. Develop an occupationally informed strategy to collect, appraise and present quantitative and qualitative data in written reports regarding service user group-level needs and challenges;
7. Identify gaps in your own group work skills in a critical reflection framework;
8. Analyse the influence of government policy on funding systems and services as they relate to occupational therapy practice;
9. Develop strategies for mitigating the potential challenges of different cultural values and behaviours between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander clients and mainstream health care practice.

Workload

• 5 hours per week of Scenario Based Learning (SBL) tutorials; • 5 hours of group work tutorials per week; • 2 hours of lectures per week; • Practice education - Placement 3 weeks full time (112 hours); • Private study - 12 hours per week. • Completion of 8 hours over a 11-week period of the Allies in Indigenous Health 2 learning module. This is made up of approx. 3 hours of individual tasks and 5 hours of group tasks. • Practice Education - 3 weeks (112 hours). Practice education will require you to travel to locations. These may be near or away from the campus.

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