OTH 716 - Occupational Therapy Foundations

[4 credit(s)]

Prerequisite: Admission to the Occupational Therapy Program. This course is designed to teach at the understanding, application, analysis, and evaluation levels of learning with an emphasis on occupational therapy history, philosophical base, theory, sociopolitical climate, and ethics. This includes the unique nature of occupation and the evidence demonstrating that occupation supports performance participation, health, and wellbeing. The course focuses on the importance of meeting society’s current and future occupational needs and how these factors influence and are influenced by practice. The Occupational Therapy Practice Framework is introduced. It emphasizes activity analysis as a core tool of occupational therapy. Standards of practice and the roles of the occupational therapist in a variety of service delivery models are reviewed. It begins to define and describe evidence-based practice, and the process of critiquing the evidence are introduced and applied. Clinical reasoning and therapeutic use of self are introduced and demonstrated.

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Cleveland State University

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OTH 716 - Occupational Therapy Foundations