Unit Outline

The unit develops your occupational perspective and prepares you to perform the various practice roles as a resilient, confident, and autonomous practitioner in the delivery of ethical, culturally responsive, sustainable, and safe practice. To consider implications for the future direction of occupational therapy and the occupational therapists’ scope of practice, the profession and discipline are examined. You will study the foundations of occupational therapy practice, including client-centered care, the nature of occupation, and how environment acts as an enabler or barrier to occupational performance. You will learn how to select and justify occupational therapy models of practice and apply evidence-based frames of reference to specific practice contexts and explain their utility in supporting the occupational needs of diverse client groups.

Intended Learning Outcomes

As per the Assessment and Results Policy 1.3, your results will reflect your achievement against specified learning outcomes.

On completion of this unit, you will be able to:


1	Describe occupational therapy practice as a profession and a discipline to analyse implications for future direction and scope of practice.
2	Analyse the nature of occupation, occupation-focused practice, occupational science theory, and evidence-informed occupational therapy processes to support people’s meaningful participation.
3	Apply the principles of occupational science, sustainable and rights-based occupational therapy, client-centredness and reflective practice to respond to diverse populations including Aboriginal and First nations Peoples.
4	Select and justify occupational therapy models of practice for specific contexts and explain their utility in supporting the occupational needs of diverse client groups and communities.
5	Analyse key concepts of occupation and explain the role of occupational therapy in supporting occupational justice, participation and performance.

Requisites


REQUISITE TYPE	REQUISITES
Co-requisite	CXA717 Occupational Therapy Practice 1

Alterations as a result of student feedback

A weekly learning activity completion guide.
Additional learning activities to scaffold student preparation for AT2.

How will I be Assessed?

For more detailed assessment information please see MyLO.

Assessment schedule


ASSESSMENT TASK #	ASSESSMENT TASK NAME	DATE DUE	WEIGHT	LINKS TO INTENDED LEARNING OUTCOMES
Assessment Task 1:	Critical Personal Professional Reflection My Occupational Identity	Week 4	30 %	LO1, LO2, LO3, LO5
Assessment Task 2:	Occupational Therapy Skill Performance	Week 6	40 %	LO1, LO2, LO4, LO5
Assessment Task 3:	Critical Analysis of an Occupational Perspective of Health	Week 14	30 %	LO1, LO2, LO3, LO4, LO5

Assessment details

Assessment Task 1: Critical Personal Professional Reflection My Occupational Identity

Task Description:

You will explore the foundation concepts, values, philosophies and perspectives of occupational therapy and occupational science and reflect on the influence of your values and your culture on being a client-centred, ethical and culturally responsive practitioner. These reflections will support you to craft an occupational identity statement that will integrate, and cite, relevant foundational occupational science/occupational therapy principles concepts, values, philosophies and perspectives. Your reflection will conclude with an aim statement that encapsulates your aspirations for professional growth and development, and a reference list of all resources cited in your occupational identity statement.

Task Length:

1000 words +/- 10%

Due Date:

Week 4

Weight:

30 %

CRITERION #

CRITERION

MEASURES INTENDED

LEARNING OUTCOME(S)


1	Create an overarching statement that articulates your occupational identity.	LO1, LO3
2	Reflect on your personal values and beliefs and identify how they will influence your approach to culturally responsive and collaborative occupational therapy practice.	LO2, LO3
3	Use published occupational science and occupational therapy literature to analyse your reflections, identify areas for professional growth.	LO3, LO5

Assessment Task 2: Occupational Therapy Skill Performance

Task Description:

Occupational Therapy Skill Performance.

This practical assessment requires you to complete an activity analysis. The analysis will be completed in real time by reading an occupational profile and viewing video footage of a person (individual) or people (partnered) performing an occupation. This assessment will occur under invigilation using an activity analysis template provided.

Task Length:

120 minutes

Due Date:

Week 6

Weight:

40 %

CRITERION #

CRITERION

MEASURES INTENDED

LEARNING OUTCOME(S)


1	Perform practical skills in accordance with occupational therapy taxonomy and principles using person-centredness.	LO1, LO2, LO5
2	Accurately record observations of a person performing an activity.	LO2, LO4
3	Analyse activity performance using a relevant occupational therapy practice process framework.	LO2, LO5

Assessment Task 3: Critical Analysis of an Occupational Perspective of Health

Task Description:

Articulating an Occupational Perspective of Health

You are required to present a critical visual narrative (video) to answer the following questions:

What is the relationship between occupation and health?
How does an occupational perspective assist when understanding and responding to the needs of individuals, families, communities, and populations?

The video should define and discuss in depth the answer to the two questions in context of an identified group or population within the geographical region and community in which you live.

Conclude your video with a summary of the key points and a call to action. Submit your video, the video script and references.

Task Length:

1500 words / 12 minute video +/- 10%

Due Date:

Week 14

Weight:

30 %

CRITERION #

CRITERION

MEASURES INTENDED

LEARNING OUTCOME(S)


1	Define and discuss the nature of occupation and its relationship to health.	LO1, LO2, LO4
2	Reflect on factors that enable or inhibit participation in occupation.	LO2, LO3, LO4
3	Analyse key theoretical concepts underpinning occupational therapy using published literature.	LO1, LO4
4	Explain how an occupational perspective can assist when considering the needs of individuals, families, communities, and populations.	LO1, LO2, LO4, LO5

How your final result is determined

To pass this unit, you need to demonstrate your attainment of each of the Intended Learning Outcomes, achieve a final unit grade of 50% or greater, and pass any hurdle tasks.

Academic progress review

The results for this unit may be included in a review of your academic progress. For information about progress reviews and what they mean for all students, see Academic Progress Review in the Student Portal.

Submission of assignments

Where practicable, assignments should be submitted to an assignment submission folder in MYLO. You must submit assignments by the due date or receive a penalty (unless an extension of time has been approved by the Unit Coordinator). Students submitting any assignment in hard copy, or because of a practicum finalisation, must attach a student cover sheet and signed declaration for the submission to be accepted for marking.

Academic integrity

Academic integrity is about acting responsibly, honestly, ethically, and collegially when using, producing, and communicating information with other students and staff members.

In written work, you must correctly reference the work of others to maintain academic integrity. To find out the referencing style for this unit, see the assessment information in the MyLO site, or contact your teaching staff. For more detail about Academic Integrity, see Important Guidelines & Support.

Requests for extensions

If you are unable to submit an assessment task by the due date, you should apply for an extension.

A request for an extension should first be discussed with your Unit Coordinator or teaching support team where possible. A request for an extension must be submitted by the assessment due date, except where you can provide evidence it was not possible to do so. Typically, an application for an extension will be supported by documentary evidence: however, where it is not possible for you to provide evidence please contact your Unit Coordinator.

The Unit Coordinator must notify you of the outcome of an extension request within 3 working days of receiving the request.

Late penalties

Assignments submitted after the deadline will receive a late penalty of 5% of the original available mark for each calendar day (or part day) that the assignment is late. Late submissions will not be accepted more than 10 calendar days after the due date, or after assignments have been returned to other students on a scheduled date, whichever occurs first. Further information on Late Penalties can be found on the Assessments and Results Procedure.