Students participate in observations and guided practice opportunities for applying OT principles in traditional and nontraditional settings
Outcomes
- Gather and share data for screening and evaluation using tools such as assessments, observations, checklists, histories, professional consultations, and interviews with the client and others.
- Develop skill and ability in observation, asking questions, effective interpersonal relationships, communication skills, and retrieving client information.
- Cultivate professional responsibility in appropriate dress, appropriate behavior, confidentiality of information, and responsibility to client, facility/environment and self.
- Develop understanding of the therapeutic environment, occupational therapy's role in the evaluation and treatment, ethical considerations, and the responsibilities of team members.
- Cultivate therapeutic use of self, as identified by developing empathy, developing an appreciation of sociocultural, socioeconomic and diversity of others, and adjusting feelings and behavior for therapeutic gain.
- Provide therapeutic use of self, including one’s personality, insights, perceptions, and judgments as part of the therapeutic process in both individual and group interaction.
- Apply training strategies in self-care, self-management, home management, and community and work integration.
- Apply development, remediation, and compensation for physical, cognitive, perceptual, sensory, neuromuscular, and behavioral skills
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