Course

Objective:

Learning Outcomes:

• Utilize the Occupational Therapy Practice Framework to determine approaches to occupational therapy interventions
• Commensurate with the role of the occupational therapy assistant, demonstrate introductory level skills in administering, scoring, interpreting and reporting results of standardized and non-standardized evaluation tools utilized by occupational therapy practitioners
• Use professional literature and resources to select evidence-based materials that can assist in professional decision making for any step of the occupational therapy process
• Role-play and experience a variety of teaching/learning strategies
• Generate professional observations made in practice contexts and report these orally
• Examine and interpret occupational therapy case materials in order to propose clinical questions and hypothesize needs related to person, environment and context of occupational performance
• Demonstrate professional behaviors in all classroom and community learning environments
• Formulate and implement occupational therapy interventions for typical or special populations
• Examine and analyze the potential influences and effects of cognitive, social or psychological disorder on engagement in meaningful occupation for individuals across the lifespan
• Evaluate, through active participation, the use of therapeutic activities for the purpose of promoting engagement in meaningful occupations
• Utilize components of the occupational therapy process in order to compare and contrast effectiveness and outcomes of different interventions
• Compose a comprehensive SOAP note as documentation of an observed therapeutic intervention session
• Compare and contrast strategies to prioritize clinical problems and intervention approaches

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