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OCC4020

Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

18 September 2017 25 April 2024

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Monash University

12 points, SCA Band 2, 0.250 EFTSL

Postgraduate - Unit

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Faculty

Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

Organisational Unit

Department of Occupational Therapy

Coordinator(s)

Associate Professor Louise Farnworth

Offered

Peninsula

  • Term 4 2016 (Day)

Synopsis

This unit focuses on the relationship between occupation health and well-being that supports occupational therapy practice from a lifespan perspective, and will explore experiences of engaging in occupation from psychological and occupational processes inherent in development. It will examine the progressive cognitive, behavioural, emotional, psychosocial and occupational changes occurring with age and when people's occupations are disrupted through disability, illness or occupational deprivation. Students will engage in experiential activities, self-reflection and interactive teaching and experiential learning and teaching to develop skills in occupational analysis, critical appraisal of literature and research, teamwork, client centered practice and culturally sensitive intentional communication. Case scenarios will be used throughout and students will undertake practice- based learning throughout the semester.

Outcomes

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

  1. Describe and explain how human occupation is classified and how humans use time;
  2. Examine the influences of person-environment-occupation interactions on peoples' health and wellbeing;
  3. Articulate and contrast contemporary developmental lifespan concepts, theories and research;
  4. Examine, compare and contrast the physical, cognitive, emotional, behavioural, social and occupational aspects of human development across the lifespan, and the influence on development of external factors;
  5. Source and appraise literature related to the physical, social, cultural, economic, political and institutional environments of individuals and groups and comment on the validity of this information for occupation-based practices;
  6. Describe observations and critique these in relationship to developmental theories about typical childhood occupations;
  7. Demonstrate effective communication and interview skills for practice and professional behaviour;
  8. Describe and apply the clinical reasoning process to the occupational therapy process in a practice situation;
  9. Identify data collection methods, collect and analyse data on the occupational performance of self and others that inform understanding about health and key occupational issues and concepts for practice;
  10. Identify and describe types of research frameworks and approaches to data analysis applied in contemporary developmental lifespan research.

Fieldwork

Fieldwork placement: up to 14 hours per week.

Assessment

In class presentations (2 x 10 minutes) (5%)
Group presentation on self care occupations (20 minutes, 4-5 group members) (5%)
Essay on the relationship between development, and functioning at specific life stages (1,500 words) (15%)
Report from observation of a child (1,000 words) (10%)
Reflective essay using time budgets to study human occupation (2,000 words)(15%)
Written examination (2 hours) (25%)
Triple Jump Part 1 (written exam) and Part 2 (oral exam) (1.5 hours) (20%)
Oral peer examiner (10 minutes) (5%)

Hurdle:
Attendance at least 100% of the scenario-based tutorials, practical skills sessions and seminars including class data collection exercises, unless a medical certificate is provided.
Self evaluation and reflective group participation in scenario-based tutorials including class data collection exercise.
Successful completion of fieldwork including attendance at fieldwork briefing; submission of (i) a completed and signed Student Placement Evaluation Form - Revised (SPEF-R) (ii) signed timesheet and (iii) Student Review of Placement form; and (iv) reflective journal. Students who fail the fieldwork component of the unit will be required to repeat the unit. A maximum of one repeat placement will be provided.

Workload requirements

9 weeks of academic/fieldwork (accelerated program). PBL tutorials (5 hours per week on campus), lectures (4-6 hours per week on-line), practicals (4-6 hours per week on campus), fieldwork placement weeks 1-9 (up to 14 hours per week).

See also Unit timetable information

Chief examiner(s)

Associate Professor Louise Farnworth

This unit applies to the following area(s) of study

Occupational therapy

Prerequisites

OCC4010.

Co-requisites

Must be enrolled in course 4515.