OT 150 - Therapeutic Use of Self

Credit Hours: 1

A practice skills course designed to teach students use of self within direct patient/client care settings. Interpersonal skills development, use of therapeutic groups; group protocols, role-play and cultural competence will be stressed.

Course Outcomes
At the end of this course, students will be able to:

articulate an understanding of the importance of the history and philosophical base of the profession of occupational therapy through a personal philosophy of helping;
provide therapeutic use of self including one’s personality, insights, perceptions, and assumptions as part of the therapeutic process in both individual and group interaction utilizing techniques of attending, responding, questioning, and disclosing;
exhibit strategies to build therapeutic closeness including empathy, trust, and respect;
describe consumer, provider, cultural, and environmental barriers to therapeutic closeness and how practitioners can overcome those barriers;
develop personal guidelines for therapeutic use of attending, responding, questioning, disclosing;
articulate the therapeutic use of groups including:
- types of groups;
- appropriate application of groups in treatment and rehabilitation settings;
- the benefits and limitations of group modalities; and
- strategies for designing and conducting groups.
develop an occupational therapy treatment or rehabilitation group session that will effectively address participant goals and program objectives related to quality of life, well-being, occupation, health, or injury prevention, considering contexts (cultural, physical, social, personal, etc.).

Corequisites: PS 202
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