Occupational therapy studies

The provision of occupational therapy involves development and implementation of strategies to enable clients to accomplish both, specific and daily life activities. For this purpose it applies functional, biomechanical, sensorimotor, perceptive, cognitive, psychosocial and physical approaches. Clients’ counselling, guidance, and education, as well as the communication with involved family members and related health care providers is an important part of the occupational therapy process. These activities require the occupational therapists to have an adequate level of health literacy skills when facing clients with different background, culture and socioeconomic status.

The developed HL courses and materials can be implemented in the occupational therapy studies after adapting the contents to corresponding therapy cases and settings. While most courses can be directly applied in the occupational therapy education (e.g. Lectures 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7,12, 13, 14), others (e.g. Lectures 4, 8, 9, 10, 11, 15) need to be revised in the context of occupational therapist-client interaction. For instance, for training of communication skills the provided scenarios need to be replaced with relevant examples from the occupational therapy practice. In the context of occupational therapy tasks (e.g. recovery of activities, provision of assistive devices, education of family members, communication in interprofessional health care teams) the Project-based learning and Community-based learning can be used in the education of occupational therapy students as well. The developed educational videos are specific for the physiotherapy settings, nevertheless the PEVA-model can be applied in the development of videos in settings, specific for the occupational therapy.