Level I A Fieldwork 5319: Physical Disabilities
Level I FW (content intertwined with practice courses)- This course includes practice competency activities to synthesize learning and demonstrate reflective clinical reasoning across the semester coursework.
Course Objectives:
Level I FW (content intertwined with practice courses)- This course includes practice competency activities to synthesize learning and demonstrate reflective clinical reasoning across the semester coursework.
Course Objectives:
- Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the role of OT in varied practice settings.
- Articulate and apply occupational therapy theory, client-centered evaluation, and OT practice-related evidence to formulate, implement and modify occupation-based interventions.
- Demonstrate effective interdisciplinary collaboration skills to maximize OT clients’ and populations’ functional outcomes.
- Demonstrate an emerging understanding of task analysis in areas of occupation, performance skills, performance patterns, activity demands, context(s) and environments, and client factors in required course assignments.
- Discuss with fieldwork educator observations based on appropriate theoretical approaches, models of practice, and frames of reference to develop occupation-based intervention plans and strategies based on the stated needs of the client and family as well as data gathered during the evaluation process.
- Demonstrate the ability to effectively utilize available community resources and create/generate new resources to meet the needs of OT clients and populations.
- Demonstrate entry-level clinical competence, professional behaviors and leadership abilities through a combination of academic and fieldwork education culminating in meeting established professional criteria.
- Analyze the effects of commonly seen physical and mental health disease processes on occupational performance for children and adults, within the context of communities and social groups. (B.2.6)
- Engage in scholarly endeavors to interpret and apply evidence-based practice data to OT practice.
- Demonstrate professional written and verbal communication skills in writing through organizing, thinking critically, and communicating ideas and information in documents and presentations.