Human Occupation Across the Lifespan

Catalog description

This course explores the relationship of the human experience, health, occupation, and context. This course provides a study of occupation ¿ activities that have meaning and purpose in an individual¿s life ¿ across the lifespan with a focus on the Occupational Therapy Practice Framework, the occupational profile and activity analysis. Through experiential learning, students explore activity analysis concepts and grading and adaptation techniques. Introduction to some of the holistic frames of reference used in practice will include PEO, Ecology of Human Occupations, Kawa Model and the MOHO. A respect for diverse clients and populations is developed through a study of culture, learning styles, health literacy factors and generational cohorts.