Health Care Ethics & Advocacy

Catalog description

This course introduces students to the Occupational Therapy Code of Ethics as a framework for ethical decision-making as an occupational therapy practitioner. Additionally, this course examines advocacy methods at both the individual and systems levels. Informed by Jesuit social teaching, this course then applies ethical decision-making strategies toward creating a more just society supporting occupational participation. Students learn to advocate for the community at large within the systems that support or influence occupational participation, the profession of occupational therapy, and the consumers of occupational therapy services.