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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 Rehabilitation

  • Unit Code

    OCT3209

  • Year

    2017

  • Enrolment Period

    1

  • Version

    3

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus

  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Amy WALLIS

Description

This unit considers the role of occupational therapy in linking work evaluations to workers mental, emotional and physical capacities and to the physical, cultural and social environments in the work setting. It includes a holistic approach to problem identification, problem analysis, intervention and discharge planning to improve occupational performance.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 5 units: OCT2108, OCT2204, OCT2205, OCT2206, OCT2207

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Improve occupational performance outcomes in work settings for individuals by using a holistic and multi-disciplinary approach that considers person, tasks, and environments.
  2. Prepare documentation compliant with legislative, re-imbursement and ethical standards.
  3. Apply the skills of clinical reasoning and quantifiable assessments of occupational performance for individuals in work settings.
  4. Apply injury prevention and vocational rehabilitation frames of reference for people in work settings.
  5. Use client-centred assessment, intervention and discharge plans to improve occupational performance outcomes in work for individuals who have a physical, developmental or psychiatric impairment.
  6. Apply teaching-learning processes, motivational approaches and compensatory strategies to enhance occupational performance in persons with physical, psychiatric or developmental impairments or disabilities.
  7. Know the limitations of the injury prevention and vocational rehabilitation frames of reference for people in work settings.

Unit Content

  1. Problem identification, problem analysis, intervention and discharge planning to improve occupational performance.
  2. The role of occupational therapy in linking work evaluations to workers' mental, emotional and physical capacities and to the physical, cultural and social environments in the work setting.
  3. Teaching-learning processes, motivational approaches, compensatory strategies, social and physical environments, and clinical reasoning.
  4. Injury prevention perspectives as well as rehabilitation frameworks within a client-centred approach.
  5. Return to work barriers, such as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (ATSI) or Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Groups (CaLD) background, will be analysed and potential solutions devised.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, guest presentations, case studies, skill practice, feedback to students, laboratories and E-learning activities. Students will be required to analyse and apply global research evidence in relation to case studies and return to work barriers.

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 WorkGroup assignment20%
AssignmentIndividual case study assignment30%
Examination ^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

    Occupational Rehabilitation

  • Unit Code

    OCT3209

  • Year

    2017

  • Enrolment Period

    2

  • Version

    3

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus

  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Amy WALLIS

Description

This unit considers the role of occupational therapy in linking work evaluations to workers mental, emotional and physical capacities and to the physical, cultural and social environments in the work setting. It includes a holistic approach to problem identification, problem analysis, intervention and discharge planning to improve occupational performance.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 5 units: OCT2108, OCT2204, OCT2205, OCT2206, OCT2207

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Improve occupational performance outcomes in work settings for individuals by using a holistic and multi-disciplinary approach that considers person, tasks, and environments.
  2. Prepare documentation compliant with legislative, re-imbursement and ethical standards.
  3. Apply the skills of clinical reasoning and quantifiable assessments of occupational performance for individuals in work settings.
  4. Apply injury prevention and vocational rehabilitation frames of reference for people in work settings.
  5. Use client-centred assessment, intervention and discharge plans to improve occupational performance outcomes in work for individuals who have a physical, developmental or psychiatric impairment.
  6. Apply teaching-learning processes, motivational approaches and compensatory strategies to enhance occupational performance in persons with physical, psychiatric or developmental impairments or disabilities.
  7. Know the limitations of the injury prevention and vocational rehabilitation frames of reference for people in work settings.

Unit Content

  1. Problem identification, problem analysis, intervention and discharge planning to improve occupational performance.
  2. The role of occupational therapy in linking work evaluations to workers' mental, emotional and physical capacities and to the physical, cultural and social environments in the work setting.
  3. Teaching-learning processes, motivational approaches, compensatory strategies, social and physical environments, and clinical reasoning.
  4. Injury prevention perspectives as well as rehabilitation frameworks within a client-centred approach.
  5. Return to work barriers, such as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (ATSI) or Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Groups (CaLD) background, will be analysed and potential solutions devised.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, guest presentations, case studies, skill practice, feedback to students, laboratories and E-learning activities. Students will be required to analyse and apply global research evidence in relation to case studies and return to work barriers.

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 WorkGroup assignment20%
AssignmentIndividual case study assignment30%
Examination ^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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