OTA 213 - Therapeutic Group Leadership Lab

1. Understand the importance of possessing competent group skills as an occupational therapy practitioner.
2. Identify advantages and disadvantages of treating patients in group settings.
3. Define and describe components of a group.
4. Describe the basic task and group building maintenance roles within a group.
5. Describe anti-group (egocentric) roles within a group.
6. Describe characteristics of different types of groups and developmental group levels.
7. Describe the characteristics and responsibilities of a group leader.
8. Describe the seven steps in group leadership.
9. Demonstrate basic group planning, leadership, and processing skills.

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.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.