Principles and strategies for managing health and promoting wellness across the lifespan are explored and practiced. The importance of occupational balance, healthy habits, and participation in meaningful occupations is examined in relation to health, well-being, and quality of life. Developmental milestones, common health conditions, and factors influencing health and wellness are introduced.
Outcomes
- Apply principles of self-management, stress management, time management, and healthy habit formation to support personal health, wellness, and occupational balance.
- Identify personal learning styles and utilize effective learning strategies that support academic and professional success.
- Describe typical lifespan development, developmental milestones, and common health conditions that influence occupational performance and participation.
- Examine the impact of social determinants of health, culture, context, and environment on health, wellness, and occupational participation.
- Analyze the relationship between occupational balance, health promotion, disease prevention, and quality of life for individuals, groups, and populations.
- Explain the role of occupation and occupational therapy in promoting health, wellness, participation, and prevention of illness, injury, and disability across the lifespan.
- Describe how occupational therapy practitioners support the well-being and occupational engagement of individuals, groups, and populations through health promotion and prevention approaches.
Distribution
Professional Education
Campus
Downtown
Area of Study
Career Education