Evidence-based Seminar I

Catalog description

This course focuses on writing a literature review and beginning the first phases of needs assessment for the doctoral capstone project. Students work closely with faculty mentors to select topics and guiding questions for their doctoral capstone project and write literature reviews. Emphasis is on the development of skills required for substantiating a need for community-based programs, critiquing published articles and databases, and writing a synthesized review of the literature to support an occupational therapy-based intervention or program. Students also begin to implement the needs assessment for their capstone project, adapted from phases 1-4 in the Precede-Proceed Model: social assessment and situational analysis; epidemiological assessment; behavioral and environmental context; and educational and ecological assessment.