Advancing Professional Practice in Occupational Therapy - Level 7

This module focuses on the informed and skilled use of occupation as a therapeutic medium to transform lives of individuals, groups and communities.

You will focus on informed, skilled use of occupation as a therapeutic medium for transformation of the lives of individuals, groups and communities. You will critically examine how therapy can be planned, justified, evaluated and communicated; conducting critical investigations of how the self can be used within occupationally-focused approaches and how different approaches to engagement are evaluated in practice.

You can build your CPD portfolios by saving and organising reflections on your group work experiences, demonstrating your decision-making and consideration for future practice using the Career development Framework (RCOT, 2017).

Aims

This module builds on concepts presented in Foundations for Occupational Therapy (HS892), aiming to facilitate your critical evaluation of the use of therapeutic activity and occupation within occupational therapy. You will investigate different therapeutic approaches to intervention and gain experiential knowledge of the professional reasoning required to consider various intervention options.

There will be opportunities to focus on grading and adaptation of occupation and environment and change within the individual, enabling you to critically evaluate how service users adapt to new situations and needs.

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of this module, you will be able to:

1. Critically explore, evaluate and apply relevant theories to underpin the use of occupation within a single occupational therapy intervention.
2. Appraise the strengths and weaknesses of intervention protocol(s) designed, to demonstrate a critical analysis of the impact of the intervention on meeting a range of individual service user needs.
3. Critically explore how various therapeutic approaches can be applied to professional practice.

Our expert staff

A unique feature of our School is that most of our staff work or have worked within clinical practice. This enhances our grasp of the contemporary links between academic research, the major issues of the day and real-life practice.

Occupational Therapy is taught by registered experienced staff with a variety of different backgrounds.

We also have expertise in the areas of mental health, brain injury and hand therapy. Specialist guest lecturers additionally lend external expertise to our academic staff. Full details of our staff can be found on our HSC Staff Profiles.

Module Outline

Learning and Teaching methods

This module will focus on experiential learning to enable you to formulate appropriate intervention plans based on information gathered on individual cases and evidence-based practice. You will work in small groups on a series of cases (enquiry-based learning), facilitated by a tutor.

Within these groups you will develop a single occupational therapy intervention protocol and deliver one session to a other members of your cohort; this will provide experiential knowledge of the development of protocols and facilitating groups/individual sessions. Lectures: Lectures and practical workshops to experience and lead therapeutic occupations.

Independent

Small groups of students will work on a series of cases to critically evaluate service users' needs and inform the development of appropriate intervention plans.

Placement

N/A for this module

Online

Discussion forums are available on the Moodle website to be accessed by students regarding the module and its content. Students will also be required to utilise online resources to support their understanding of intervention options in relation to the cases provided within the module.

Tutorials

One mandatory group tutorial is offered for students to discuss the module and the assignment. Individual formative tutorials are offered to students to discuss their reflection of the intervention session conducted.

Skills

Small student led group work: to discuss and apply theory to cases; evaluate the OT process in relation to these cases; develop an intervention protocol(s) related to the cases provided; development and facilitation of a group protocol, including the application of evidence to support decision-making.

Assessment strategy

100% coursework assessed module.

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