General Practice

SC10-Promoting Resilience and Self-care: Rebooting Occupational Therapy

Presenters: Bridget Hahn, Evguenia Popova, Hannah Morris, Katherine Loomis, Erin Shy, Julia Andrews, Marissa Iacullo, & Abigail Peters

Description: Burnout in healthcare is well documented, including high rates of emotional exhaustion and low personal achievement in occupational therapy. Addressing well-being in the profession is critical for ensuring the best quality of care for the clients as well as recruitment and retention of clinicians in the long term. In this presentation, we share preliminary data on the prevalence of self-reported well-being, professional quality of life, resilience, stress, and mindful self-care in occupational therapy practitioners and students. In addition, we discuss evidence-based self-care strategies that have been shown to improve wellness, across mental, interpersonal, and physical domains. Professional opportunities to support self-care across individual, team, and organizational contexts will be discussed.

SC11-Know Your Practice Act/Rules and New Changes

Presenters: Nancy Richman & Maureen Mulhall

Description: All occupational therapy practitioners are governed by our licensure Act and Rules. Know the most recent proposed or recently enacted rules changes and have a chance to influence how we will practice in the future in Illinois. Learn what you should be doing to be a competent, responsible practitioner and uphold the law.

SC12-Doing, Being and Becoming: Embracing Integrative and Complementary Approaches to Occupational Therapy Practice and Self Care

Presenters: Beverly Menninger

Description: This short course will continue the exploration of doing, being and becoming through the responsible use of holistic, integrative and complementary approaches to care as occupational therapists as well as for self-care. Various modalities that may be preparatory or considered occupation will be presented including mindfulness, meditation, Reiki, yoga, and breath work just to name a few. Participants will be introduced to various approaches, discuss how they can be appropriately integrated into practice in a variety of settings as well as participate in brief practice during the session.

SC22-Sexual Harassment in the Workplace: An Occupational Therapy Perspective

Presenters: Maria P. Gertos, MS, OTR/L, Frank Czuba DrOT, OTR/L

Description: This course fulfills the IDFPR sexual harassment training requirement to maintain OT licensure in the state of Illinois. This recorded course explores the relevance of addressing and preventing sexual harassment to the profession of OT. Participants will learn about the Illinois law and requirements for sexual harassment training for employers, explore legal definitions, facts and statistics, and ways sexual harassment occurs in the workplace. Further details will be provided about the types of sexual harassment and what to do if sexual harassment is experienced, including workplace recommendations, team collaboration and reporting of incidents.

SC23-AOTA Occupational Therapy Code of Ethics: Updates and Revisions 2020

Presenter: Marla R. Robinson, MSc., OTR/L, BCPR, BT-C, FAOTA

Description: As part of the 5-year review process, the AOTA Occupational Therapy Code of Ethics has undergone changes to reflect the dynamic nature of healthcare and to support emerging practice areas in occupational therapy. This presentation will review the AOTA Occupational Therapy Code of Ethics and current updates impacting the practice for practitioners.

The objectives include:

• Demonstrate an understanding of the Occupational Therapy Code of Ethics and Ethics Standards

• Identify the ethical principles that guide OT practice

• Apply the AOTA Code of Ethics to practice scenarios

SC24-American Occupational Therapy Foundation (AOTF): Building Evidence to Improve Practice and Health

Presenter: Lawrence Liff