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.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Occupational Rehabilitation
  • Unit Code

    OCT3209
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    4
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Jacqueline HUNT

Description

This unit considers the role of occupational therapy in linking work evaluations to the mental, emotional and physical capacities of employees, and their physical, social and cultural work environments. It includes a holistic approach to problem identification and analysis, and intervention and discharge planning to improve occupational performance within the workplace. Current legislation and workplace requirements are utilised in this unit to ensure relevancy of practice.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must have passed 5 units: OCT2108, OCT2204, OCT2205, OCT2206 and (either OCT2207 or OCT2250).

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Improve the occupational and workplace outcomes of clients in collaboration with employers and the multi-disciplinary team.
  2. Recommend occupational rehabilitation interventions in accordance with current legislation and workplace requirements.
  3. Apply clinical reasoning to communicate the occupational rehabilitation needs of culturally diverse clients to relevant stakeholders.

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 or Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Groups (CaLD) background, will be analysed and potential solutions devised.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 2 hour labNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 113 x 2 hour lectureNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Students will be required to work both individually and in groups to analyse and apply global research evidence in relation to case studies and return to work barriers. Guest presentations from industry representatives and networking with professionals working within the occupational rehabilitation sector, will enhance the learning experience.

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 School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Laboratory WorkGroup assignment30%
AssignmentIndividual case study assignment30%
Test ^End of semester online test40%

^ 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 Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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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.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Occupational Rehabilitation
  • Unit Code

    OCT3209
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    4
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Jacqueline HUNT

Description

This unit considers the role of occupational therapy in linking work evaluations to the mental, emotional and physical capacities of employees, and their physical, social and cultural work environments. It includes a holistic approach to problem identification and analysis, and intervention and discharge planning to improve occupational performance within the workplace. Current legislation and workplace requirements are utilised in this unit to ensure relevancy of practice.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must have passed 5 units: OCT2108, OCT2204, OCT2205, OCT2206 and (either OCT2207 or OCT2250).

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Improve the occupational and workplace outcomes of clients in collaboration with employers and the multi-disciplinary team.
  2. Recommend occupational rehabilitation interventions in accordance with current legislation and workplace requirements.
  3. Apply clinical reasoning to communicate the occupational rehabilitation needs of culturally diverse clients to relevant stakeholders.

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 or Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Groups (CaLD) background, will be analysed and potential solutions devised.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 2 hour labNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 113 x 2 hour lectureNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Students will be required to work both individually and in groups to analyse and apply global research evidence in relation to case studies and return to work barriers. Guest presentations from industry representatives and networking with professionals working within the occupational rehabilitation sector, will enhance the learning experience.

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 School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Laboratory WorkGroup assignment30%
AssignmentIndividual case study assignment30%
Test ^End of semester online test40%

^ 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 Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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