Fieldwork Level I: Mental Health Practice: Adolescents and Adults

Catalog description

This course provides the opportunity for students to directly experience occupational therapy practice in mental health with adolescent/adult populations in a clinical or community setting. Through fieldwork experience, students will begin to integrate and apply the theoretical knowledge, professional behaviors/attitudes and clinical skills Page 131 Catalog 2025 - 2026 learned in the classroom. An integrative clinical reasoning fieldwork seminar accompanies the fieldwork experience to provide students with an opportunity to analyze the professional and clinical practices observed in the clinic/community setting, and integrates this with the clients' cultural background, health status, and valued occupations. Students will complete intensive documentation assignments that will help facilitate their understanding and ability to analyze and synthesize a client's information in an occupational profile/evaluation in order to create long/short- term goals, formulate an evidence based treatment plan, progress note and discharge note. The pre-requisites of OT 221, OT 232, OT 233, OT 234, OT 242 and OT 221 are required. The co- requisites of OT 225, OT 228, OT 235, OT 243 and OT 244 are required.