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Unit of Study OCCU2009 - Education, Leisure and Play Occupations (2023)

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Unit Snapshot

  • Unit type

    UG Coursework Unit

  • Credit points

    12

  • Faculty/College

    Faculty of Health

  • Placement

    No

  • Enrolment information

    N/A

Unit description

This unit examines the person and environmental factors that impact occupational performance limitations in education, leisure and play in children and adolescents. Students will have the opportunity to learn about key practice approaches which influence effective occupational therapy practice and use these approaches to underpin contemporary assessment and intervention.

Unit content

  1. Best-practice in occupational therapy for children 
  2. Use of play in paediatric occupational therapy interventions.
  3. Paediatric occupational therapy assessment
  4. Paediatric occupational therapy interventions.
  5. Service provision across paediatric settings
  6. Family centred, culturally safe and trauma informed care

 

Availabilities

Location Domestic International
Coffs Harbour
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Gold Coast
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Learning outcomes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

critically review approaches to intervention using major paediatric frames of reference

analyse the relationship between person and environment factors that affect performance in play, leisure and school occupations

apply appropriate assessment and intervention strategies to promote occupational performance in school and play contexts, with consideration of the child and other relevant stakeholders

apply trauma informed, family centred and culturally safe care in occupational therapy practice

Prescribed learning resources

Prescribed Texts
  • Case-Smith, J & Obrien, J, 2019, Occupational Therapy for Children and Adolescents, 8th edn, Elsevier Mosby, St Louis. ISBN: 978-0-323-16925-7.
Prescribed Resources/Equipment
  • No prescribed resources/equipment.

Prescribed Learning Resources may change in future Teaching Periods.