OT2001:03
Occupational Practice
Townsville
26 lectures, 26 tutorials, 39 hours practicals. First semester.
Available to level 2 Occupational Therapy students.
This subject develops the knowledge of normal lifespan development to include aspects of productivity, school occupations, leisure and play. The tasks and roles that an individual is able to perform to provide support for self, family or community through the production of goods or provision of services. This subject will include those tasks and roles that are performed for entertainment, creativity and celebration and will address the influences of social, cultural, individual and environmental factors in addition to the effects of illness and disability.
Learning Objectives:
- ability to discuss the experience of human behaviour in relation to productivity and vocation performance;
- ability to evaluate the impact of environmental influences on human behaviour;
- ability to evaluate the impact of abnormal behaviour on work and social activity in a multicultural environment;
- understand how social, cultural and environmental factors influence productivity and vocational participation whether in employment, rehabilitation, retirement or schooling.
Assessment by examination (40%); assignment (20%); practical (40%).