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OTA 211 - Therapeutic Practices Clinical Skills Training

Credits: 2
An advanced level course that emphasizes the application of therapeutic practices in a clinical context. Includes training and feedback in areas related to client care including chart review, intervention planning, intervention implementation, documentation and discharge planning.

Enrollment Requirement: OTA 122,  OTA 123,  OTA 131,  OTA 132,  and OTA 133  all with grades of 2.0 or higher; concurrent enrollment in OTA 210 ; and enrollment in OTA program.

Course Fee: $30.00

Course Outcomes:
Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

  1. 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.
  2. Demonstrate clinical reasoning to address occupation-based interventions, client factors, performance patterns, and performance skills.
  3. Utilize clinical reasoning to facilitate occupation-based interventions that address client factors. This must include interventions
  4. Contribute to the evaluation process of client(s)’ occupational performance, including an occupational profile, by administering standardized and non-standardized screenings and assessment tools and collaborating in the development of occupation-based intervention plans and strategies. Explain the importance of using psychometrically sound assessment tools when considering client needs, and cultural and contextual factors to deliver evidence-based intervention plans and strategies. Intervention plans and strategies must be client centered, culturally relevant, reflective of current occupational therapy practice, and based on available evidence.
  5. Demonstrate an understanding of the intervention strategies that remediate and/or compensate for functional cognitive deficits, visual deficits, and psychosocial and behavioral health deficits that affect occupational performance.
  6. Provide direct interventions and procedures to persons, groups, and populations to enhance safety, health and wellness, and performance in occupations. This must include the ability to select and deliver occupations and activities, preparatory methods and tasks (including therapeutic exercise), education and training, and advocacy.
  7. Provide training in techniques to enhance functional mobility, including physical transfers, wheelchair management, and mobility devices.
  8. Provide training in techniques to enhance community mobility, and address transportation transitions, including driver rehabilitation and community access.
  9. Demonstrate knowledge of the use of technology in practice, which must include:
  • Electronic documentation systems
  • Virtual environments
  • Telehealth technology
  1. Assess, grade, and modify the way persons, groups, and populations perform occupations and activities by adapting processes, modifying environments, and applying ergonomic principles to reflect the changing needs of the client, sociocultural context, and technological advances.
  2. 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.
  • To instruct and train the client, caregiver, family, significant others, and communities at the level of the audience.

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


College-wide Outcomes
  • 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.



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