OCC5060 Enabling occupation 3

When you finish this unit, you should be able to:

1. 1

   Critically appraise the role of occupational therapists in population-level service planning, evaluation and resource management.

2. 2

   Appraise the historical, political, cultural, societal, environmental and economic factors influencing health, wellbeing and occupations of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and explain how to implement these into population-level occupational therapy practice.

3. 3

   Critically appraise frameworks that underpin health promotion, and how these are operationalized and evaluated in clinical settings.

4. 4

   Critically analyse the challenges and opportunities for integrating health promotion into contemporary practice in occupational therapy.

5. 5

   Apply project management skills to employ strategies to empower service providers, community leaders, consumers and carers to determine and set priorities for change.

6. 6

   Apply project management skills by scoping an occupationally relevant project, undertaking a needs analysis and use findings of needs analyses to develop programs using best available evidence;

7. 7

   Apply ethical considerations in quality assurance and evaluation activities to a community partnership project.

8. 8

   Implement strategies to empower consumers and carers, service providers and community leaders, to determine and set priorities for change, facilitate decision making and advocate service options through the sharing of resources in a mutual educational process.

9. 9

   Appraise and apply the principles of enabling occupation to a population/community.

10. 10

    Apply reflective learning to take responsibility for own attitudes and behaviour, acknowledging prejudices, limitations, and lack of knowledge, and commitment to change and growth.