OTA 204Ped Psychosocial

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The first in a sequence of courses addressing psychosocial conditions causing disruption of occupational behaviors, skills, and life roles in humans throughout the lifespan. This course presents occupational and developmental frameworks for understanding the occupational nature of infants and children through the adolescent period, their families and caregivers. Means of applying the occupational therapy process by the occupational therapy assistant is studied within the contexts of a variety of mental health disorders, conditions, and circumstances affecting this period of human development.