OCTR 510 - Adolescence and Occupational Therapy Practice

Credit(s): 5
5 semester hours
This course reviews the biopsychosocial components of human growth and development, typical occupational roles, and environments of persons in the developmental stages from late childhood through late adolescence. Students examine how children with and without disabilities weather the transition into adolescence and how adolescents with and without disabilities manage the transition into adulthood. Occupation-based methods of promoting healthy transitions and adaptation through adolescence into adulthood are studied, analyzed, and applied to typical adolescents and to adolescents with psychiatric and physical disabilities. Current issues in community and school mental health and related occupational therapy practice are also discussed. Students continue to refine their skills in client-centered interviewing, observation, assessment, goal setting, activity analysis, and intervention planning including developing occupation-based groups. They continue to apply an evidence-based approach to the selection of appropriate practice frameworks and intervention planning. Student readings, assignments, class discussions and activities foster the integration of course knowledge with the students’ concurrent educational experiences in OCTR 511 - Level I Fieldwork with Adolescent and Young Adult Clients in a Mental Health Setting and OCTR 512 - Problem-Based Learning in Adolescent Health. This course requires student completion of online modules. Offered spring trimester only.