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OCCP2088: Occupational Performance: Child and Family
2022 unit information
For children, youth, and families living in the community and who experience performance challenges, occupational therapy is useful to enhance, restore, or maintain participation in day-to-day activities. Integrating an understanding of childhood development with family-centred practice, students will develop specific assessment, intervention, and evaluation skills to promote participation in day-to-day activities from infancy through childhood. In doing so, students will learn: How do I provide occupational therapy within a family context? How can I promote quality in life through participation in everyday occupation? How do I consider the complex interaction of a person's capacity (physical, emotional and cognitive functioning) with environmental factors whilst focusing on the performance of activities of concern to families?
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Managing faculty or University school:
Medicine and Health
| Study level | Undergraduate |
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| Academic unit | Participation Sciences |
| Credit points | 6 |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. identify and analyse the interplay of (1) children’s characteristics, (2) demands of everyday occupations and (3) family contexts influencing the development, occupational performance and well-being of children
- LO2. understand family-centred care/practice and analyse the challenges to engaging effectively with families to ensure dual influence on child and family outcomes
- LO3. discuss potential implications of health conditions (including developmental concerns) or poor child/task/environment fit on a child’s performance of everyday occupations and roles, and describe occupational therapy interventions to change performance by altering one or more elements
- LO4. gather and interpret data across domains of child development and areas of everyday participation using observation, interview, and psychometrically sound standardised testing
- LO5. understand and utilise theoretical frameworks and approaches in occupational therapy evaluation and intervention for children and their families
- LO6. develop skills to create occupational therapy plans that promote children’s participation in everyday life and reflect family-centred practice, and that include clear goals and approach(s) of service delivery that match the goals and situation.
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