Enabling Occupations for Health and Wellbeing

Module overview

This module will integrate your learning from Foundations of Occupational Therapy (OT) Practice and complement your learning in OT Concepts: Extrinsic factors and OT concepts: Intrinsic factors. This module will facilitate your application of knowledge to occupations across the lifespan. You will explore occupations for those with a range of conditions, applying evidence-based practice and consider risk from different perspectives.

Aims and Objectives

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

The concepts of risk in health and social care.
Contemporary occupational therapy approaches and their relevance to day-to-day occupational therapy practice.
Use a top-down approach to develop an occupational profile for a range of people.

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

Demonstrate effective use of core occupational therapy interventions.
Demonstrate how you assess a range of people, with regards to client-centred practice and individual needs.
Reflect on the act of immersing oneself in a range of occupational experiences.
Demonstrate the ability to evaluate interventions and the added value of occupational therapy.

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

Apply appropriate communication skills and act professionally at all times.

Learning and Teaching

Teaching and learning methods

The programme is built around the principles of spiral learning, utilising both pedagogical and andragogical approaches to teaching and learning. Throughout this module you will experience a mix of teaching modalities, such as active and experiential learning, self-directed and collaborative learning, alongside traditional lectures and flipped classroom sessions.

Study time
Type	Hours
Guided independent study	240
Lecture	10
Practical classes and workshops	50
Total study time	300

Resources & Reading list

Textbooks

Case-Smith, J. and O'Brien, J,C (2015). Occupational therapy for children and adolescents. St.Louis, Missouri: Elsevier..

Fisher, A.G. and Marterella, A. (2019). Powerful Practice: A Model for Authentic Occupational Therapy. Colorado. Colorado: Center for Innovative OT Solutions, Inc..

Atchison, B. and Dirette, D.P. (eds) (2017). Conditions in occupational therapy: effect on occupational performance. Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer..

Curtin. M,. Egan, M. and Adams, J. (2018). Occupational Therapy for people experiencing Illness, Injury or impairment. London: Elsevier..

Bryant, W., Fieldhouse, J. and Bannigan, K. (2023). Creek's Occupational Therapy and Mental Health. Edinburgh: Elsevier..

Vine, G. (2024). Occupational Therapy, disability, activism and me: Challenging ableism in healthcare.. London: Jessica Kinglsey Publishers..

Assessment

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

In-class simulation

Assessment Type: Formative
Feedback: Peer and lecturer in-class feedback
Final Assessment:
Group Work: No

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Breakdown
Method	Percentage contribution
Objective Structured Practical Examination (OSPE)	100%

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Breakdown
Method	Percentage contribution
Objective Structured Practical Examination (OSPE)	100%