Description
In this subject you will learn core skills in enabling occupation. The subject will adopt the Canadian Model of Occupational Performance and the Canadian Model of Client-Centred Enablement. You will learn foundational skills in therapeutic communication, adaptation of tasks and recommendation of assistive technology, advocacy, collaboration & coordination, environmental modification, and health education. You will also develop hands-on skills in a range of specialised interventions such as splint fabrication.
Subject details
| Type | Postgraduate |
| Code | OCTY71-105 |
| EFTSL | 0.125 |
| Faculty | Faculty of Health Sciences & Medicine |
| Semesters offered |
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| Credit | 10 |
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Learning outcomes
1. Communicate effectively with clients to enable occupation and occupational performance.
2. Apply enabling skills in advocacy, collaboration and consultation, adaptation, coordination, design, education and specialised skills.
3. Adopt a client-centred approach to practice.
4. Appraise own performance and use feedback from professional supervision to reflect on own practice.
Enrolment requirements
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This subject is not available as a general elective. To be eligible for enrolment, the subject must be specified in the students’ program structure. |
Subject outlines
Subject dates
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| Enrolment opens | 15/11/2020 |
| Semester start | 18/01/2021 |
| Subject start | 18/01/2021 |
| Cancellation 1? | 01/02/2021 |
| Cancellation 2? | 08/02/2021 |
| Last enrolment | 31/01/2021 |
| Withdraw – Financial? | 13/02/2021 |
| Withdraw – Academic? | 06/03/2021 |
| Teaching census? | 12/02/2021 |