OT 200 - Psychosocial Rehabilitation

• explain the implications of psychiatric disability in our society, including:
  • barriers to opportunities;
  • stigma; and
  • limitations on freedom and rights
• summarize the history of mental health services, describing:
  • the development of care, treatment, rehabilitation and recovery paradigms;
  • transformation from institutionalization to community mental health centers models of service delivery;
  • development of the occupational therapy profession; and
  • the influence of past service delivery on current attitudes, beliefs and service delivery models.
• explain the principles of recovery and their impact on occupational therapy services today;
• describe the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders multiaxial system of organizing and communicating clinical information, and its relevance to occupational therapy including:
  • DSM diagnostic codes;
  • use of Global Assessment of Functioning Scale (GAF); and
  • use of Social and Occupational Functioning Assessment Scale (SOFAS).
• understand severe and persistent psychiatric disabilities including:
  • diagnoses and terminology;
  • experience of symptoms;
  • common characteristics and associated conditions;
  • impact on function;
  • etiology;
  • prognosis throughout the life-span;
  • assessment; and
  • general OT treatment and support interventions.
• select appropriate precautions, supportive strategies, and environmental adaptations, which will help individuals who display symptoms and side effects;
• define treatment, rehabilitation, and recovery as they relate to psychiatric rehabilitation;
• describe the philosophy of psychiatric rehabilitation including:
  • principles;
  • values; and
  • mission.
• outline psychiatric rehabilitation processes as implemented in New York State mental health programs including:
  • rehabilitation readiness assessment;
  • overall rehabilitation goal development;
  • functional/resource assessment;
  • service planning; and
  • skills and resource interventions.
• describe current psychiatric treatment, rehabilitation and support services implemented in New York State, including:
  • inpatient treatment;
  • day programs;
  • clinics;
  • vocational and educational services;
  • case management;
  • residential and independent living; and
  • the relevance and application of occupational therapy in these settings.
• describe the roles and relationships of consumers, peer-providers, practitioners, advocates, and families in psychiatric rehabilitation;
• demonstrate effective therapeutic use of self;
• develop long-term goals and short-term objectives that are relevant, functional, observable and measurable;
• devise interventions appropriate to age, culture, disability and goals, which will foster function in work, self-care or play performance areas, based on psychosocial rehabilitation theories and principles presented in class; and
• outline the roles, responsibilities, and common activities of occupational therapy across the treatment and rehabilitation continuum.