ERGOPRA3 Placement - Occupational Therapy in Practice Course description

Knowledge, skills and experience from previous courses are integrated into occupational therapy work in an independent and well-founded manner. The course focuses on systematic, user-oriented and knowledge based practice promoting health, activity and participation on the individual, group and system level. The practical training establishments are related to the fields of health promoting, preventive, therapeutic, rehabilitative and habilitative activity. Application and development of action and communication competence in real work situations in participatory and committed manner are emphasised. The practical training establishments will principally be within the municipal health service, but institutions in the public and private sector may also be relevant.

The course consists of the following subject areas from the national curriculum, specified below as the number of credits:

• Habilitative work (3 ECTS)
• Rehabilitative work (6 ECTS)
• Health-promoting and preventive work (4 ECTS)
• Therapeutic work (1 ECTS)
• Ethics (1 ECTS)

Passed the second year of the programme.

After completing the course, the student is expected to have achieved the following learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge, skills and competence:

Knowledge

The student is capable of

• explaining user participation and client-centred approaches in occupational therapy
• explaining organisational and structural factors with a bearing on professional practice at the practical training establishment
• explaining relevant laws and regulations
• looking up, evaluating and discussing relevant research articles and specialist literature

Skills

The student is capable of

• applying a client-centred approach to health promoting, preventative, therapeutic and rehabilitative and habilitative work
• defining goals based on people's wishes regarding, and the right to activity and social participation
• working in a knowledge based and independent manner with assessment, intervention, documentation and evaluation on an individual, group and/or system level
• applying resource-oriented, empowering and problem-solving work models to promote health, activity and participation
• identifying ethical dilemmas and make independent choices
• clinically reasoning and justifying the use of mapping and intervention

Competence

The student is capable of

• taking responsibility and initiative, demonstrating cooperation skills, independence and an ability to adapt, and treating users, partners and others with empathy and respect
• discussing and critically reflecting on ethical dilemmas and practising in accordance with professional ethical guidelines
• contributing to interprofessional and sectorial cooperation including communication of occupational therapy expertise
• discussing different professional approaches in interdisciplinary teams in order to develop good practices

The course comprises ten weeks of practical training. The practical training establishments will be in the public and private sectors in Norway or abroad. Supervision and clinical reasoning are key to reinforcing the student's learning process and to integrating theory and practice during the placement.

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Admission to the study program

On successful completion of the course, the student has the following learning outcomes classified as knowledge and skills:

Knowledge

The student can

• describe and discuss societal influences that support a complexity perspective
• describe and discuss complexity as a scientific approach
• describe and discuss dualism as a philosophical view, and the problems with dualism in applied settings
• describe concepts from complexity science such as reductionism; emergence; critical mass; consilience, and the unity of science
• give examples of analyses of the same phenomenon at different levels of reduction
• describe and discuss differences in antagonistic and complementary professional approaches to the same phenomenon
• describe and discuss the principle of selection at different levels of complexity
• discuss the role of science in society
• describe relevant key characteristics of a natural science approach to human behavior

Skills

The student can

• analyze networks as the structure of complex adaptive systems
• identify nodes and hubs, assessing the robustness and vulnerability of Networks
• identify category mistakes and discuss mentalism and evolutionary approaches
• cite sources and arrange a reference list according to the current standard from APA
• use a digital reference manager for citations and references in written assignments

In the BSCA specialisation, campus-based lectures and seminars are the main teaching methods. Students read selected texts in advance for each day of class, and everyone is expected to participate in class through questions and through joining in discussion. In the BSII specialisation, the main teaching method is digital course sequences, and feedback on details of course content, and supervised discussion groups will be available during pre-determined time periods. Feedback on written assignments is used in both specialisations.