Workshops

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Full-Day Workshop

Seminar: OTIPM – Powerful Practice: Planning and Implementing Authentic Occupational Therapy Services

While the OTIPM is an occupation-centered professional reasoning model, the emphasis of this course is on the application of the OTIPM, the Transactional Model of Occupation, and various intervention models in everyday practice. A variety of individual and group activities provide the course participants with opportunities to implement (a) nonstandardized occupation-focused and occupation-based evaluations of quality of a person’s occupational performance, including quality of social interaction; and (b) occupation-focused documentation. Video case examples are used to reinforce learning. Opportunities for discussion among course participants provide collaborative opportunities for addressing strategies for overcoming obstacles that can constrain the provision of authentic occupational therapy services.

Speaker: Anne G. Fisher, ScD, OT, FAOTA

Professor Fisher is the Founder of the Center for Innovative OT Solutions (CIOTS), University Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Colorado State University, and Professor Emeritus at Umeå University, Sweden. Professor Fisher’s 50 years of experience as an occupational therapist, occupational scientist, and educator has inspired her to develop innovative assessments of quality of occupational performance and the Occupational Therapy Intervention Process Model (OTIPM). This workshop is based on the new innovative book, Powerful Practice: A Model for Authentic Occupational Therapy she co-wrote with Abbey Marterella, The OTIPM and this most recent book emerged as a solution to a common challenge — how to harness the full power of occupation in practice, education, and research.

Course Outline

Day One

Day Two

Day Three

Note. The schedule presented here may vary, depending on group interest and needs.

Course Objectives

At the conclusion of a 3-day OTIPM workshop, the participants will:

• Understand the occupation-centered professional reasoning process defined in the OTIPM
• Distinguish between occupation-centered reasoning and occupation-based and occupation-focused practice
• Articulate various types of evaluations and interventions occupational therapists commonly use and evaluate which ones are ecologically-relevant, occupation-based, and/or occupation-focused
• Apply true top-down and occupation-centered reasoning in the context of implementing occupation-based and occupation-focused services
• Implement nonstandardized observation-based performance analyses of a person’s quality of occupational performance
• Understand when and how to link other occupational therapy models of practice and evaluation methods into the occupational therapy intervention process
• Use the Transactional Model of Occupation to reason about the intertwined relationships among various elements of situational contexts and the elements of occupation: occupational performance, occupational experience, and participation
• Write occupation-focused documentation, including observable and measurable client-centered goals
• Use systematic strategies for accumulating practice-based evidence of the effectiveness of occupational therapy interventions

Who Can Benefit?

Occupational therapy clinicians, students, educators, and researchers who

• seek an overarching reasoning model that provides a structure for thinking about the variety of available evaluation and intervention methods and then choosing which one to use at different phases of the occupational therapy process - such a structure can enhance both clinical practice and occupational therapy education;
• want to invigorate practice and confidently implement authentic services that are occupation-based and occupation-focused;
• already practice in a manner with which they are satisfied - attending this course will enable them to reflect on and evaluate their current practice, identify components that they can further improve so as to become even more occupation-centered, and enhance their ability to communicate to others the power of occupation; and/or
• want to change practice and are struggling with where to start in order to overcome the many obstacles that limit what they can do.

Course Fees

*Pending VCF Approval

Registration Type	Closing Date	Fees (S$)
	31 Mar 2021	1700
Normal	Till Full	1850