Syllabus Information

5.3. Syllabus

PART I: The concept of Occupational Therapy

-  Conceptual framework of Occupational Therapy

-  Concept and History of Occupational Therapy

-  Health, disease and disability, functional assessment, prevention levels

-  Application areas of Occupational Therapy, types of occupational activity, the TO team, individual work and group work.

PART II: Frameworks and models in Occupational Therapy

-  Organicist models: Biomechanical/kinesiological, neuromotor, neurological-evolutive

-  Organic-mental models: perceptual-motor, psychomotor, neurophysiological.

-  Mental models: learning and occupational behavior, cognitive and psychodynamic.

-  Holistic models: model of human occupation, Canadian model, American Association of Occupational Therapy framework, other models.

PART III: Skills and abilities

-  Manipulative skills

-  Praxical-constructive skills

-  Communication and interaction, adaptive and creative skills