Skills for Living 3: Self Care

Catalog description

This course provides students with the opportunity to examine the meaning of self-care activities throughout the life span and across various cultures. The course content emphases clinical reasoning/evidence-based practice research as it relates to the engagement in self-care skills as part of meaningful occupation, health promotion, prevention and wellness. The specific performance components of self-care activities (i.e., sensorimotor, cognitive and psychosocial components) will be analyze. The way in which various performance contexts (i.e., age group, developmental stage, disability status, environmental conditions, and socio-cultural factors) influence self-care activities will be explore. Students will have the opportunity to practice activity analyses of self-care tasks (for specific populations, age groups, socio-cultural environments, etc.). Students will also practice the clinical techniques of grading and adaptation of self-care activities in accordance with an individual's disability status. There will be opportunity to practice grading and adaptation self-care skills, through case studies and problem-based learning activities. Students will have the opportunity to identify a variety of screenings, assessments, and intervention methods for clients who have disabilities, which interferes with self-care activities. The students will have the opportunity to practice documentation skills (goal and note writing) through case studies and problem-based learning.