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OCCP2085: Occupational Performance: Home and Family
2022 unit information
Many adults who experience challenges performing day-to-day activities could benefit from services in order to continue living in the community. Occupational therapy is useful to enhance, restore, or maintain performance of and participation in self-care, mobility, domestic, social, and leisure activities within the home. Paying particular attention to the typical social context (family) within which people live, students will further develop assessment, intervention, and evaluation skills relevant to the performance of daily life activities within the home. In doing so, students will learn: Within a home context, how do I best provide occupational therapy services from a client-centred perspective? How do I involve families when focusing on the performance of day-to-day activities within the home? How might home environments be modified to enhance safety and performance of everyday activities? How do I convey the conceptual design in both a graphic and written manner, and conform to required legislation and funding body requirements? This unit of study builds on units such as OCCP1099: Occupational Performance: Healthcare I, to extend students' knowledge of occupational therapy practice beyond the hospital setting.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Participation Sciences
| Code | OCCP2085 |
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| Academic unit | Participation Sciences |
| Credit points | 6 |
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OCCP1099 |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. conduct assessments involving instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs) and leisure activities which are conducted in and around the home environment
- LO2. plan and deliver (with supervision) evidence-based interventions to increase occupational performance of home-related activities by adapting tasks, changing environments and enabling skill mastery
- LO3. understand how family members and carers can meet their own occupational needs and support the needs of people they care for (representing the diversity of potential family situations)
- LO4. demonstrate a working knowledge of legal and ethical guidelines that govern care for people with disabilities living at home (home modification standards and requirements, occupational health and safety for carers, equipment maintenance, home ownership, insurance, mental health standards), resources and services
- LO5. demonstrate a working knowledge of technical drawing skills and modification design articulating clinical reasoning and in consideration of required legislation
- LO6. negotiate an intervention plan for a person with a disability living at home that meets the need of both the client and the family, and collaborate with other teams members including paid carers and agencies.
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