This year 1 15 credit module will enable you to develop your clinical reasoning in order to make evidence-based, theoretically informed and professionally sound decisions. The academic learning builds on the occupational therapy process knowledge that you developed in OCCU471. Within this module you will further enhance your knowledge and skills in goal setting and intervention planning, and will learn about evaluating therapy outcomes.
You will have an opportunity to apply your learning and further develop your knowledge and skills through undertaking a practice placement in a typical occupational therapy practice environment. This is a full-time eight-week placement, in which you will be supervised by a nominated occupational therapy practice educator from within the placement setting.
The module involves keynote lectures, problem-based learning seminar groups, self-directed learning, and experiential learning within the eight-week practice placement. This variety of teaching and learning approaches will allow you to develop knowledge and skills central to occupational therapy with a particular focus on goal-setting and intervention planning and evaluation.
This module is assessed by means of:
1. A presentation related to a case study of the students choice.
2. An eight-week practice placement in an occupational therapy practice setting