School: Medical and Health Sciences

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Occupational Analysis
  • Unit Code

    OCT1205
  • Year

    2016
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus

Description

This unit considers the principles involved in the analysis of self-care, work, leisure activities and occupations to understand their component parts, their possible meanings to clients, and their therapeutic potential. It includes an in-depth study of the analytic and occupational therapy processes at the core of occupational therapy practice including clinical reasoning. The importance of ethical and legal aspects of accurate reporting, and the documentation of the outcomes of analyses are reviewed.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 2 units from OCT1101, OCT1104

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Accurately document the outcomes of activity or occupational analysis and the resultant occupational therapy process.
  2. Adapt activities and occupations to meet the needs of clients.
  3. Analyse activity and occupation-based activity for contextual demands and performance skills.
  4. Apply the concepts of clinical reasoning and occupational therapy process to practice.
  5. Define activity and occupational analysis and their component parts.
  6. Explain activity and occupational analysis and their component parts.
  7. Explain the concepts of learning, thought, and behavioural theories as applied to occupation.
  8. Grade activities and occupations to meet the needs of clients.

Unit Content

  1. Activity analysis and clinical reasoning.
  2. Activity analysis, theory-focused activity analysis, occupation-based activity analysis, grading and adaptation.
  3. Analysing occupation and activity as a way of thinking about occupational performance.
  4. Introduction to the ethical and legal requirements for accurate and culturally sensitive documentation related to the occupational analysis and subsequent decision-making processes.
  5. Introduction to theories of learning, thought, and behaviour as related to occupation.
  6. Using activity and occupational analysis and the occupational therapy process to meet a clients goals.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures and experiential laboratories, class and small group discussion, guest lecturers from industry, E-learning activities.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Laboratory WorkLaboratory activities40%
AssignmentClient Activity Plan20%
Examination ^End of semester examination40%

^ Mandatory to Pass

Journal References

  • American Occupational Therapy Association. (2014). Occupational Therapy Practice Framework: Domain and process (3rd ed.). American Journal of Occupational Therapy 68 (Suppl 1): S1-S48
  • British Journal of Occupational Therapy
  • Australian Occupational Therapy Journal
  • American Journal of Occupational Therapy
  • Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy

Website References


Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Medical and Health Sciences

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Occupational Analysis
  • Unit Code

    OCT1205
  • Year

    2016
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus

Description

This unit considers the principles involved in the analysis of self-care, work, leisure activities and occupations to understand their component parts, their possible meanings to clients, and their therapeutic potential. It includes an in-depth study of the analytic and occupational therapy processes at the core of occupational therapy practice including clinical reasoning. The importance of ethical and legal aspects of accurate reporting, and the documentation of the outcomes of analyses are reviewed.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 2 units from OCT1101, OCT1104

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Accurately document the outcomes of activity or occupational analysis and the resultant occupational therapy process.
  2. Adapt activities and occupations to meet the needs of clients.
  3. Analyse activity and occupation-based activity for contextual demands and performance skills.
  4. Apply the concepts of clinical reasoning and occupational therapy process to practice.
  5. Define activity and occupational analysis and their component parts.
  6. Explain activity and occupational analysis and their component parts.
  7. Explain the concepts of learning, thought, and behavioural theories as applied to occupation.
  8. Grade activities and occupations to meet the needs of clients.

Unit Content

  1. Activity analysis and clinical reasoning.
  2. Activity analysis, theory-focused activity analysis, occupation-based activity analysis, grading and adaptation.
  3. Analysing occupation and activity as a way of thinking about occupational performance.
  4. Introduction to the ethical and legal requirements for accurate and culturally sensitive documentation related to the occupational analysis and subsequent decision-making processes.
  5. Introduction to theories of learning, thought, and behaviour as related to occupation.
  6. Using activity and occupational analysis and the occupational therapy process to meet a clients goals.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures and experiential laboratories, class and small group discussion, guest lecturers from industry, E-learning activities.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Laboratory WorkLaboratory activities40%
AssignmentClient Activity Plan20%
Examination ^End of semester examination40%

^ Mandatory to Pass

Journal References

  • American Occupational Therapy Association. (2014). Occupational Therapy Practice Framework: Domain and process (3rd ed.). American Journal of Occupational Therapy 68 (Suppl 1): S1-S48
  • British Journal of Occupational Therapy
  • Australian Occupational Therapy Journal
  • American Journal of Occupational Therapy
  • Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy

Website References


Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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