Work Placement 2: Assessment and promotion of occupational performance and participationLaajuus (12 ECTS)

Objective

Students plan and implement individual occupational therapy processes. As far as possible, they participate in planning and implementing group situations from the perspective of their own client and therapeutic occupation. Students assess factors contributing to the client’s occupational performance. They negotiate with the client on the objectives based on assessment and plan appropriate intervention. Students choose occupations together with the client and adapt and stagger these so as to promote the client’s occupational performance and participation. They contribute to the accessibility of psychosocial, physical and technical environments, such as guiding the client and his/her family and friends, recommending assistive devices, planning routine environmental adaptations and preparing static orthoses. Students are able to identify and assess change in the client’s occupational behaviour. They carry out occupational therapy in the client’s home and local environments. Students justify their solutions based on experience, expertise and scientific knowledge. Students perform continuous assessment and evaluate achievement of occupational therapy objectives. They share information with the client and their team, make further recommendations based on assessment and document information. They make use of supervision and adjust their own way of instructing the client as required.

Content

• Recognition of the key factors of the therapeutic relationship
• Planning, implementation and evaluation of an individual occupational therapy process
• Occupational forms
• Occupational analysis and synthesis
• Identification and assessment of change in a client’s occupational behaviour
• Sharing information, making further recommendations and documentation

Qualifications

Prerequisites:
The work placement period is related to the theoretical courses Therapeutic occupation in self-care, instrumental activities of daily life and play and Key factors of the therapeutic relationship, which means that students need to have completed the amount of credits in these studies as indicated in the implementation plan.
WORK PLACEMENT 1: Assessment of occupational performance
Assessment of occupational performance components and areas 2

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

Approved
The student is able to:
- display learning in core content
- use individual professional concepts correctly
- find information for a specific situation
- distinguish between non-theoretical and theoretical information
- act in individual professional situations as instructed
- display learning in his professional field
- show that he has achieved the targets for core competence
- follow safety instructions
- display learning in the ethical principles of his professional field
- operate as a member of a student group
Failed
- The student does not know or appreciate knowledge in the field sufficiently
- The student does not know or cannot use concepts in his field properly
- The student's professional level is not properly developed
- The student is not acting in accordance with his training and guidance
- The student is not familiar with instructions related to professional
safety or ethical principles
- The student withdraws from cooperation with others