Unit Outline

This unit enhances your core threshold learning in occupational therapy process and practice, with attention to skills in task, activity, occupation analysis, grading and occupational adaptation. You will delineate the use of occupation as means and end to achieve performance and participation outcomes and learn how to develop top down / bottom-up approaches to therapy planning and outcome measurement. You will analyse the relationships between occupational performance, participation, and sustainable occupational wellbeing. These foundation skills are applied in all occupational therapy contexts and practice settings. Using domains of occupation as a focus, you will develop professional knowledge and attributes that enable you to consider occupation in its dynamic transactional relationship with people across the lifespan and from different cultural identifications and environments.

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	Analyse factors that facilitate or constrain performance and safety for participation in daily life using principles of occupational analysis, grading, adaption and Person Environment Occupation goodness of fit.
2	Analyse and apply the occupational therapy practice process to enhance occupations performed in workplaces, education settings, community, leisure, and home settings.
3	Use clinical and therapeutic reasoning to formulate evidence-based interventions to enhance occupational performance or promote participation and well-being by occupational adaptation, and developing or restoring personal skills.
4	Analyse the relationships between occupation, participation, and wellbeing through a cultural lens, including Aboriginal and First Nations People ways of knowing, being and doing.
5	Critically reflect, using principles of sustainability, to strengthen resilience in self and other for occupational wellbeing across the lifespan.

Requisites


REQUISITE TYPE	REQUISITES
Pre-requisite	CXA716 Foundations of Occupational Therapy and Occupational Science CXA717 Occupational Therapy Practice 1

Alterations as a result of student feedback

No Alterations as a result of student feedback

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:	Occupational Performance and Participation in Work and Productivity	Week 3	20 %	LO1, LO2, LO3
Assessment Task 2:	Occupational Analysis for Grading and Occupational Adaptation	Week 5	30 %	LO1, LO2, LO3, LO4, LO5
Assessment Task 3:	Occupational Therapy Process Report	Week 7	50 %	LO2, LO3, LO4, LO5

Assessment details

Assessment Task 1: Occupational Performance and Participation in Work and Productivity

Task Description:

Occupational performance and participation in work and productivity.

This assessment requires you to watch an interview conducted with a person about their occupations in the domain of work and / or productivity, specific occupational demands and the conditions under which they are required or choose to perform their role/s and to identify and address occupational performance issues and participation patterns.

Task Length:

1000 words

Due Date:

Week 3

Weight:

20 %

CRITERION #

CRITERION

MEASURES INTENDED

LEARNING OUTCOME(S)


1	Evaluate the impact of various personal attributes on performance and participation in work and productivity	LO1, LO2
2	Explain how person-environment -occupation goodness of fit can facilitate or constrain participation, performance and safety and wellbeing	LO1, LO2, LO3
3	Formulate strategies in a range of environments to maximise occupational performance and participation in work and productivity, with attention to workplace safety where relevant.	LO2, LO3

Assessment Task 2: Occupational Analysis for Grading and Occupational Adaptation

Task Description:

This practical assessment requires you to draw on scenario information provided to undertake a task, activity, and occupational analysis, which is a core occupational therapy skill. You will draw on the findings to outline and justify an intervention recommendation that addresses grading and adaptation of occupation, using a systematic reasoning approach in a simulated clinical setting. You will be required to demonstrate the practical skills associated with the scenario and skill and explain / document your analysis findings.

Task Length:

500 words (written reflection) and 10 minutes (video justification)

Due Date:

Week 5

Weight:

30 %

CRITERION #

CRITERION

MEASURES INTENDED

LEARNING OUTCOME(S)


1	Perform and document a task, activity, occupation analysis with a client.	LO1, LO2, LO4
2	Justify an intervention recommendation based on grading and adaptation of occupation.	LO3, LO4
3	Demonstrate culturally responsive, safe, and relevant communication strategies that support the client achieving their goals in a sustainable way.	LO4, LO5

Assessment Task 3: Occupational Therapy Process Report

Task Description:

Occupational Therapy Process Report.

The assessment task requires you to select one case study and use the information provided to undertake an occupational analysis and outline an intervention and evaluation plan using a systematic occupational therapy process approach. The task comprises two parts including the complete occupational therapy process report and a critical reflection of your learning outcomes.

Part A. Occupational process and practice
You are required to write an Occupational Therapy Process Report, using an occupational therapy process model for structure.

Part B. Critical Reflection
Write a critical reflection about your approach to using evidence based occupational therapy processes and practices.

Task Length:

2000 words (Part A 1500 words and Part B 500 words)

Due Date:

Week 7

Weight:

50 %

CRITERION #

CRITERION

MEASURES INTENDED

LEARNING OUTCOME(S)


1	Design interventions that support an individual's participation in meaningful occupation using occupational therapy processes and practices.	LO3, LO4
2	Use evidence-based practice and occupational processes and reasoning to inform decision making in therapy planning.	LO3, LO4
3	Critically reflect on your approach to evidencing culturally safe and sustainable occupational therapy practice.	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.