OTA 113: Therapeutic Activities II

Subject
Occupational Therapy Assistant
Credits 4
Quarter Offered
Spring
Instructional Mode
Hybrid
This course is the second of two courses with the same focus. It is an advanced course to develop creative problem-solving, clinical reasoning, and documentation skills through exposure to barriers for safety and independence. Grading and adaptation of activities are explored more in depth. Models and theories of occupation are applied and the effects on performance are examined.
Outcomes
  • Apply clinical reasoning to analyze and select appropriate therapeutic activities to support client-centered goals.
  • Demonstrate the ability to grade and adapt therapeutic activities to address client factors, performance skills, and contexts.
  • Use the teaching-learning process to facilitate individual and group-based therapeutic interventions.
  • Apply activity analysis to plan and implement occupation-based interventions that promote participation, safety of self and others, in ADLs, IADLs, and other areas of occupation.
  • Demonstrate effective clinical documentation and professional communication related to the intervention process.
  • Describe the safe, effective and ethical application of physical agent modalities as a preparatory measure to improve occupational performance.
Prerequisites
All second quarter OTA courses: OTA 105, OTA 108, OTA 110, OTA 112, OTA 206
Distribution
Professional Education
Campus
Downtown