Practice Reasoning in Occupational Therapy (10303.2)
| Available teaching periods | Delivery mode | Location |
|---|---|---|
| View teaching periods | On-campus |
Bruce, Canberra |
| EFTSL | Credit points | Faculty |
| 0.125 | 3 | Faculty Of Health |
| Discipline | Study level | HECS Bands |
| Discipline Of Occupational Therapy | Level 2 - Undergraduate Intermediate Unit | Band 2 2021 (Commenced After 1 Jan 2021) Band 3 2021 (Commenced Before 1 Jan 2021) |
Learning outcomes
On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:1. Appraise approaches to practice reasoning as applied to occupational therapy;
2. Apply models of reflective practice to support practice reasoning in occupational therapy; and
3. Demonstrate application of occupational therapy professional reasoning with individuals, groups and communities.
Graduate attributes
1. UC graduates are professional - use creativity, critical thinking, analysis and research skills to solve theoretical and real-world problems1. UC graduates are professional - employ up-to-date and relevant knowledge and skills
1. UC graduates are professional - work collaboratively as part of a team, negotiate, and resolve conflict
1. UC graduates are professional - take pride in their professional and personal integrity
2. UC graduates are global citizens - understand issues in their profession from the perspective of other cultures
2. UC graduates are global citizens - adopt an informed and balanced approach across professional and international boundaries
3. UC graduates are lifelong learners - reflect on their own practice, updating and adapting their knowledge and skills for continual professional and academic development
3. UC graduates are lifelong learners - be self-aware
4. UC graduates are able to demonstrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ways of knowing, being and doing - apply their knowledge to working with Indigenous Australians in socially just ways
2. UC graduates are global citizens - communicate effectively in diverse cultural and social settings
1. UC graduates are professional - display initiative and drive, and use their organisation skills to plan and manage their workload
3. UC graduates are lifelong learners - adapt to complexity, ambiguity and change by being flexible and keen to engage with new ideas
Skills development
This unit will help you consolidate your understanding of the occupational therapy process, and provide you with a framework for thinking like an occupational therapist. The unit will include case-based scenarios that will encourage you to work and reflect with your peers to solve practical problems using an occupational perspective on health and wellbeing.
Prerequisites
10300 Foundations of Occupational Therapy AND 10301 Occupational Therapy Toolbox 1 AND(7434 Indigenous Health: Contemporary Issues OR 11852 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People's health contexts) AND (10298 Foundations of Anatomy and Physiology OR 6529 Systemic Anatomy and Physiology)
Corequisites
Must be enrolled in 373JA Bachelor of Occupational Therapy.Incompatible units
None.Equivalent units
None.Assumed knowledge
None.| Year | Location | Teaching period | Teaching start date | Delivery mode | Unit convener |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Bruce, Canberra | Semester 1 | 03 February 2025 | On-campus | Ms Claire Pearce |
| 2026 | Bruce, Canberra | Semester 1 | 16 February 2026 | On-campus | Ms Claire Pearce |
Required texts
Boyt Schell, B.A., & Schell, J. W. (Eds.). (2024). Clinical and professional reasoning in occupational therapy (3rd Ed.). Wolters Kluwer.
Submission of assessment items
Extensions & Late submissions
Technology related reasons can not be used to support/justify a late submission.
Students can use the draft drop boxes to review their assignments for academic integrity purposes. Academic integrity reports might take up to 24 hours. This step is optional, and the students must ensure that the final submission is completed in the assignment's drop box by the due date and time.
Extension requests must be made at least two business days before submission date and include appropriate supporting dcoumentation. Students are required to monitor their student email account regarding approval or rejection of any extension requests.
Artificial intelligence
Students are not permitted to use generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in assessments for this unit.
GenAI may only be used in authorised ways when completing assessments at UC. This means that GenAI can only be used for an assessment when:
- the Unit Convener has authorised GenAI use for that assessment
- the student uses GenAI in the way that the assessment instructions allo
- the student fully acknowledges their use of GenAI, with proper citations, references and a GenAI Acknowledgement Statement in line with the assessment instructions.
Where the assessment instructions do not specifically state that GenAI may be used and how, then its use is not permitted for that assessment. Students must still provide the required GenAI Acknowledgement Statement to indicate whether GenAI has or has not been used in the preparation of the assessment. If unsure, students should seek advice from the Unit Convener.
The GenAI for Students Links to an external site. Library Guide provides further information, including how to reference GenAI.
Special assessment requirements
Drop in Sessions:
Drop in sessions are scheduled during semester to provide support to students in completing assessment items (refer to the class timetable on Canvas for details). By attending these sessions, students will have the opportunity to:
- Clarify the requirements of the assessment item
- Understand the marking rubric
- Receive feedback regarding the general structure of their intended response
Clarification regarding assessment tasks can also be obtained by posting on Canvas discussion boards. Questions raised on discussion boards after 4pm two days before the assessment due date/time will not be responded to by teaching staff.
Staff will not respond to questions regarding assessment items raised by email.
Moderation
Moderation Is undertaken as per UC policy.
Once marking and moderation have been completed, students will receive their marks, including feedback within the rubric. Cohort wide feedback will be provided via a Canvas announcement. If a student would like to receive further feedback, they are invited to book a time with the unit convener. Individual feedback meetings are not for discussion of changes to marks.
Students must apply academic integrity in their learning and research activities at UC. This includes submitting authentic and original work for assessments and properly acknowledging any sources used.
Academic integrity involves the ethical, honest and responsible use, creation and sharing of information. It is critical to the quality of higher education. Our academic integrity values are honesty, trust, fairness, respect, responsibility and courage.
UC students have to complete the Academic Integrity Module annually to learn about academic integrity and to understand the consequences of academic integrity breaches (or academic misconduct).
UC uses various strategies and systems, including detection software, to identify potential breaches of academic integrity. Suspected breaches may be investigated, and action can be taken when misconduct is found to have occurred.
Information is provided in the Academic Integrity Policy, Academic Integrity Procedure, and University of Canberra (Student Conduct) Rules 2023. For further advice, visit Study Skills.
Learner engagement
To satisfactorily complete this unit, you will need to:
- Attend and participate in scheduled tutorials each week- the more you participate and ask questions, the more you will get out of this unit;
- Engage with the challenge of solving complex problems;
- Reflect on your own thinking and reasoning styles and be aware of personal preferences, strengths and weaknesses;
- Collaborate with your peers to practice articulating and applying professional reasoning
Participation requirements
WEEKS 1-7, 9 & 10: 3-hour workshops, Friday 9.30am-12.30pm. These sessions are not recorded.
It is essential that students actively participate in all workshop activities. Such participation is required by students to meet the Australian Occupational Therapy Competency Standards (2018). Therefore, except in the case of extenuating circumstances, 100% attendance at the workshops is expected. In unexpected circumstances, such as personal illness, it is the students responsibility to catch up with missed content.
It is expected that if students are unable to meet these participation requirements they email the Unit Convener as soon as practical.
Students will also be required to attend face-to-face assessments- see information under Assessments plus Canvas page for more details.
In the course of studying occupational therapy, students may be exposed to clinical cases and situations that may be stressful. At UC a free Counselling Service is available for all students. All sessions are confidential. The UC Counselling Service is located in the UC Health and Counselling Centre on Level B in Building 1. For more information please go to http://www.canberra.edu.au/health-counselling/counselling-service.
Required IT skills
It is expected that students will have basic word processing skills, an ability to use databases to search for journal articles, and to regularly access their UC email account and Canvas. Canvas is an online learning site, which provides students with access to readings and learning activities.
Lecturers will communicate with all students via their UC email account and announcements on Canvas. It is the students' responsibility to regularly check their email and Canvas for messages, information and or instructions.
Work placement, internships or practicums
In class simulation activites
Additional information
Submission of Assignments: All written assessments must be submitted via the appropriate dropbox on Canvas.
You must keep a copy of all your assignments.
Unless otherwise advised in the assessment task instructions, written assessment pieces must conform to APA 7th edition requirements, including:
- Font size: 12 pt – Times New Roman, Calibri or Arial
- Line spacing: double
- Headings: in bold, maximum size 16 pt.
- Margins: no less than 2.54cm on all sides.
- Page numbers: at bottom right hand corner of footer.
- Student identification number: (number only) at top right-hand corner of header.
- References: cited using APA 7th edition style (author, date) and listed in an accompanying reference list, also in APA 7th edition style. A printable guide to this referencing style can be found on the library website
- Word length / number of pages will be specified as required. Details contained in text beyond the maximum word count will not be considered during marking. Specific instructions available on Canvas.
