OTA 211 - Therapeutic Practices Clinical Skills Training

1. Demonstrate knowledge of and apply the interaction of occupation and activity, including areas of occupation, performance skills, performance patterns, context, and client factors.
2. Demonstrate therapeutic use of self, including one’s personality, insights, perceptions, and judgments, as part of the therapeutic process in both individual and group interaction. 
3. Demonstrate professional reasoning to inform occupation-based interventions that focus on: Client factors, performance patterns, and performance skills., Creation, promotion, establishment, restoration, maintenance, modification, and prevention. 
4. Contribute to the evaluation process of client(s)’ occupational performance by completing an occupational profile and administering standardized and nonstandardized screenings and assessment tools as delegated by the occupational therapist. Explain the importance of using psychometrically sound assessment tools when considering client needs, and cultural and contextual factors. Collaborating in the development of occupation-based intervention plans and strategies that must be client centered, culturally relevant, reflective of current occupational therapy practice, and based on available evidence.
5. Collaborating in the development of occupation-based intervention plans and strategies that must be client centered, culturally relevant, reflective of current occupational therapy practice, and based on available evidence. Under the direction of an occupational therapist, report on data for evaluation of client outcomes
6. Provide direct interventions and procedures to persons, groups, or populations to enhance safety, health and wellness, chronic condition management, and performance in occupations. This must include the ability to collaborate with the occupational therapist related to interventions and selecting and delivering occupations and activities: Occupations as a therapeutic intervention, Interventions to support occupations including therapeutic exercise, Interventions to support well-being (e.g., complementary health and integrative health), Interventions to support self-advocacy related to the person, groups, or populations, Virtual interventions. 
7. Demonstrate knowledge of the use of technology in practice, which must include: Electronic documentation systems Virtual environments and Telehealth technology.
8. Demonstrate the principles of the teaching-learning process using educational methods and health literacy education approaches: To design activities and clinical training for persons, groups, and populations and to instruct and train the client, caregiver, family, significant others, and communities at the level of the audience. Under the direction of an occupational therapist, report on data for evaluation of client outcomes. 
9. Demonstrate effective communication with clients, care partners, communities, and members of the intraprofessional and interprofessional teams in a responsive and responsible manner that supports a team approach to promote client outcomes. 
10. Demonstrate knowledge of various reimbursement systems and funding mechanisms (e.g., federal, state, local, third party, private payer), appeals mechanisms, treatment/diagnosis codes (e.g., CPT®, ICD, DSM® codes), and durable medical equipment coding (e.g., HCPCS) and documentation requirements (e.g., equipment justifications) that affect consumers and the practice of occupational therapy. Documentation must effectively communicate the need and rationale for occupational therapy services. 

1. Conduct and document a screening and evaluation process.
2. Intervene and implement occupational therapy processes.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.