Student Learning Goals (related to each theme)
Ethics, Justice and Care
Occupations, occupation-based practice, and occupational engagement
Leadership, advocacy and collaboration
Community-based and contextual practice
Rigorous inquiry, scholarship, and innovation
Therapeutic processes appropriate for contemporary and future practice
Ethics, Justice and Care
- Be culturally responsive by providing individualized high quality and customized services in a diverse set of health care and community-based settings to serve clients with the highest integrity.
- Evaluate the protection of human rights and dignity, equal access to occupation and prevention of occupational deprivation.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the ethical and practical considerations that affect the health and wellness needs of those who are experiencing or are at risk for social injustice, occupational deprivation, and disparity in the receipt of services.
Occupations, occupation-based practice, and occupational engagement
- Directly address the use of occupation in facilitating change, growth, adaptation, and occupational participation toward the goals of health, wellness, and improved quality of life.
- Utilize everyday occupations that address daily activities that people do on a recurring basis while engaged in diverse life pursuits and social roles.
- Develop occupation-based intervention plans based on the stated needs of the client and the evaluation process in collaboration with the client and others.
- Select and provide direct occupational therapy interventions and procedures to enhance safety, health and performance in Activities of Daily Living, education, work, play, rest, sleep, leisure, and social participation.
- Provide therapeutic use of occupation and activities.
- Select and teach compensatory strategies, such as use of technology and environmental adaptations, that support performance.
Leadership, advocacy and collaboration
- Seek leadership positions to influence changing policies, environments, and complex health care systems.
- Engage with other health care professionals to actualize optimal interprofessional care, thereby improving patient care, reducing costs, and maximizing independence and quality of life for our clients.
- Apply the principles of the teaching–learning process using educational methods to design experiences to address the needs of the client, family, significant others.
Community-based and contextual practice
- Excel in working with clients and within care systems to demonstrate effective outcomes, improving their ability to participate in their families, their communities and society.
- Expand practice to include marginalized underserved populations within contextually appropriate settings.
- Demonstrate cultural humility within the context of community-based program.
Rigorous inquiry, scholarship, and innovation
- Value evidence-based, effective practice-based, client centered, and cost-effective care.
- Recognize the importance of continued value for both qualitative and quantitative clinical research to improve care to clients.
- Use scholarly literature to make evidence-based decisions.
- Design a scholarly proposal that includes the research question, relevant literature, sample, design, measurement, and data analysis.
- Write scholarly reports appropriate for presentation or for publication in a peer- reviewed journal.
- Apply quantitative statistics and qualitative analysis to interpret tests, measurements, and other data for the purpose of establishing and/or delivering evidence-based practice.
Therapeutic processes appropriate for contemporary and future practice
- Utilize occupational engagement as best practice, requiring a deep base of knowledge that helps each student develop a professional identity as an occupational therapist.
- Assist clients who are limited by physical, cognitive, psychosocial, developmental, and environmental conditions, to maximize their engagement in occupation and maintain optimum health through a planned mix of acquired skills, performance motivation, environmental adaptations, assistive technologies, and physical agents.