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

    Neurological Rehabilitation
  • Unit Code

    OCT3205
  • Year

    2017
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Jacqueline HUNT

Description

This unit focuses on common neurological conditions and how these impact on adults' occupational performance in self-care, work and leisure contexts. An examination of the issues related to the assessment of an individuals functional capabilities and the interaction of these with social and physical environmental aspects is provided. The application of clinical reasoning and client-centred practice to determine interventions best suited to promoting wellness and occupational performance is also addressed.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 4 units from OCT3201, OCT3202, OCT3203, OCT3209

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse the benefits and the limitations of the rehabilitation frames of reference for people with disabilities.
  2. Design an assessment and intervention plan to improve occupational performance outcomes in self-care, work and leisure for individuals who have a neurological condition.
  3. Outline teaching-learning processes, motivational approaches and compensatory strategies to enhance occupational performance in persons with impairments or disabilities resulting from a neurological condition.
  4. Use clinical reasoning skills and the occupational therapy process to evaluate standards of occupational performance for an individual.

Unit Content

  1. Applying a wellness framework.
  2. Assessing an individuals functional capabilities and the interaction of these with social and physical environmental aspects that impact on occupational performance in self-care, work and leisure.
  3. Assessing social and physical environments.
  4. Client-centred practice.
  5. Clinical reasoning.
  6. Common neurological conditions in adults and occupational therapy assessment and interventions.
  7. Consideration of cultural influences for goal setting and treatment planning.
  8. The application of teaching-learning processes, rehabilitation approaches and compensatory strategies.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures and Laboratories that include guest presentations, video footage of clients, skill practice, E-Learning activities, class and small group tasks, discussion and feedback to students.

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
AssignmentWritten assignment35%
TestIn-class laboratory assessment15%
Viva ^End of semester examination50%

^ Mandatory to Pass


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

    Neurological Rehabilitation
  • Unit Code

    OCT3205
  • Year

    2017
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Jacqueline HUNT

Description

This unit focuses on common neurological conditions and how these impact on adults' occupational performance in self-care, work and leisure contexts. An examination of the issues related to the assessment of an individuals functional capabilities and the interaction of these with social and physical environmental aspects is provided. The application of clinical reasoning and client-centred practice to determine interventions best suited to promoting wellness and occupational performance is also addressed.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 4 units from OCT3201, OCT3202, OCT3203, OCT3209

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse the benefits and the limitations of the rehabilitation frames of reference for people with disabilities.
  2. Design an assessment and intervention plan to improve occupational performance outcomes in self-care, work and leisure for individuals who have a neurological condition.
  3. Outline teaching-learning processes, motivational approaches and compensatory strategies to enhance occupational performance in persons with impairments or disabilities resulting from a neurological condition.
  4. Use clinical reasoning skills and the occupational therapy process to evaluate standards of occupational performance for an individual.

Unit Content

  1. Applying a wellness framework.
  2. Assessing an individuals functional capabilities and the interaction of these with social and physical environmental aspects that impact on occupational performance in self-care, work and leisure.
  3. Assessing social and physical environments.
  4. Client-centred practice.
  5. Clinical reasoning.
  6. Common neurological conditions in adults and occupational therapy assessment and interventions.
  7. Consideration of cultural influences for goal setting and treatment planning.
  8. The application of teaching-learning processes, rehabilitation approaches and compensatory strategies.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures and Laboratories that include guest presentations, video footage of clients, skill practice, E-Learning activities, class and small group tasks, discussion and feedback to students.

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
AssignmentWritten assignment35%
TestIn-class laboratory assessment15%
Viva ^End of semester examination50%

^ Mandatory to Pass

Core Reading(s)

  • (2014). Occupational therapy for physical dysfunction (7th ed.). Phildelphia, PA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.

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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