OCC2011 - Occupational performance, capabilities and components

Upon successful completion of this unit, students should be able to:

Theme 1: Personal and Professional Development

1. Describe and apply the principles of client-centered practice
2. Apply critical appraisal, critical reasoning and critical thinking skills to case-based learning
3. Explain the role and contribution of different members of the health care team
4. Clearly articulate to clients the specialist contribution of occupational therapy to health service intervention
5. Demonstrate skills in self critique and self reflection

Theme 2: Population, Society and Health

6. Describe occupational justice issues in the allocation and distribution of resources within services
7. Recognize the rights of consumers and carers and integrate their lived experience of health methods into service planning and delivery
8. Describe the importance of multicultural diversity and cultural relationships to professional practice

Theme 3: Fundamental Knowledge for the Health Sciences

9. Explain the mechanisms and consequences of problems related to mental/psychosocial, physical and social capacities of humans, across the lifespan
10. Critique and apply knowledge of body functions, body structures and related clinical conditions to occupational performance challenges for clients of occupational therapy
11. Describe theories and models of practice that contribute to an understanding and application of occupational engagement and performance
12. Apply key theoretical models of human occupation to client-centered occupational therapy assessment, goal setting, intervention, and follow-up evaluation
13. Appraise occupational therapy assessment tools and apply them in clinical contexts to evaluate occupational performance and occupational engagement
14. Describe and apply the principles of occupational analysis and grading and adaptation of occupations to a therapy situation

Theme 4: Applied Practice

15. Select, administer and critique assessment methods used in occupational therapy practice including initial assessment interview
16. Accurately record and document professional information
17. Describe and apply the clinical reasoning process to the occupational therapy process
18. Formulate appropriate occupational therapy goals and objectives for specific clients
19. Acknowledge expertise and interact respectfully with different members of the health care team, consumers and carers
20. Behave in a manner appropriate for professional practice in both the academic and clinical environment.

Theme 5: Research

21. Locate, retrieve and use resources to inform decision making about health and occupational issues.