OCC2020 - Enabling occupation: Performance challenges 1A

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

1. Apply the Canadian Model of Occupational Performance and Engagement (CMOP-E) and the Canadian Practice Process Framework (CPPF) to typical occupational therapy practice scenarios addressing different areas of practice;
2. Apply and explain typical occupational therapy theories, intervention strategies, methods and modalities used with clients of occupational therapy;
3. Describe common musculoskeletal, medical, surgical, neurological, mental and psychosocial disease processes relevant to clients of occupational therapy in the context of their occupational sequelae;
4. Design technical drawings of home modifications, evaluate these relative to clients' needs and communicate recommendations to home modification;
5. Construct an orthosis using the principles of orthotic fabrication and justify design, manufacture and application of a specific orthosis;
6. Select, measure, prescribe and use appropriate assistive equipment to create recommendations for increased occupational participation and performance in typical client scenarios;
7. Integrate evidence-based practice with a client-centred approach to recommend relevant occupational therapy intervention strategies and services;
8. Write relevant, concise and comprehensive reports and substantiate both written and oral reports with information from assessments, observations and interviews;
9. Define and describe search strategies to identify the principles of evidence based practice and use the best available evidence for typical occupational therapy scenarios.