OCC3031 - Enabling occupation: Performance challenges 1B

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

1. take responsibility for own attitudes and behaviour, as demonstrated by acknowledging prejudices, limitations, and lack of knowledge, and commitment to change and growth as a result of professional development, and reflective learning;
2. further develop skills in self-assessment and the provision of constructive feedback to others;
3. function effectively as a member of a small learning group;
4. understand further the relationship between the person, the environment (physical social, institutional and cultural) and occupation as the basis for occupational therapy practice;
5. further appreciate the complex and interacting factors that contribute to notions of culture and cultural relationships, health and illness and multicultural diversity to professional practice and citizenship;
6. describe and apply the Canadian Practice Process Framework to typical occupational therapy practice scenarios and clinical practice;
7. describe and critique best evidence available for typical occupational therapy intervention strategies, methods and modalities used with clients of occupational therapy presenting with physical, mental/psychosocial, cognitive, social, and other related occupational performance challenges;
8. describe types and processes of traumatic stress reaction and application of strategies for processing of traumatic stress responses and models of critical stress debriefing;
9. demonstrate clinical reasoning and client-centred/family-centred approach to the development and implementation of occupationally relevant intervention strategies;
10. describe further common medical, surgical, neurological, musculoskeletal, psychosocial and developmental conditions that can present in clients of occupational therapy and their occupational sequela;
11. write relevant, concise and comprehensive reports and substantiate both written and oral reports with information form assessments, observations and interviews';
12. effectively communicate with other members of the team and refer appropriately;
13. maintain the legal, ethical and professional standards and emergency procedures set by the clinical facility, Monash University, and OT AUSTRALIA code of ethics; and
14. seek out and apply the principles of evidence-based practice and using best evidence available for practice related to clients of occupational therapy.