HS895-7-SP-CO:
Mastering Occupation
2024/25
Health and Social Care (School of)
Colchester Campus
Spring
Postgraduate: Level 7
Current
Monday 06 January 2025
Friday 21 March 2025
15
14 March 2023
Requisites for this module
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MSC B93024 Occupational Therapy (Pre-Registration)
This module focuses on the theories which inform occupational therapy, aiming for a deep critical investigation of their relevance for, and application to, contemporary practice.
The aims of this module are:
- To consolidate your learning from previous modules and practice placements through you investigating the informing theories and science of occupation in depth.
- To critically compare established practices with evidence from emerging research, scholarship and practice at a local and global level.
- To consider the challenges in communicating the potential of occupational therapy in a complex world, referring to occupational injustice and human rights. This will involve critical appraisal of how occupation can be used to promote health and well-being in different service settings, such as end of life care, forensic services and social care.
- To consider environmental sustainability and how the changing climate and environment impacts on human occupation.
- To build on the consideration of your CPD portfolio (see The Career Development Framework (RCOT 2017b)).
On completion of this module, you will have:
1. Developed a critical understanding of human occupation and its impact on the health and well-being of individuals, society and the natural world.
2. Critically appraised the historical development of occupational science and its key theories and concepts.
3. Critically debated the application of occupational science to contemporary occupational therapy practice at a local, national and international level.
Previous modules will have enabled you to develop understanding of occupational therapy philosophy and theory for practice. In addition you will also have acquired practice-based skills and direct experience of practice settings. Now you have the underpinning knowledge and skills required to engage critically with occupational science literature and evidence. This will be a scholarly process designed to give you skills in engaging with diverse sources of information and synthesising them for a wide audience.
The learning and teaching methods employed for this module can be divided into three:
- Taught seminar-style sessions
- Enquiry-Based Learning (EBL)
- Independent self-directed study
- (2017) Occupational therapies without borders: integrating justice with practice, Edinburgh: Elsevier.
- Bryant, Wendy; Cordingley, Kevin; Adomako, Ellen; Birken, Mary. (2019-09-14) 'Making activism a participatory, inclusive and developmental process: a research programme involving mental health service users', in Disability & Society. vol. 34 (7-8) , pp.1264-1288
- Huot, Suzanne; Rudman, Debbie Laliberte. (2010-06) 'The performances and places of identity: Conceptualizing intersections of occupation, identity and place in the process of migration', in Journal of Occupational Science. vol. 17 (2) , pp.68-77
- Galvin, Danika; Wilding, Clare; Whiteford, Gail. (2011-10) 'Utopian visions/dystopian realities: Exploring practice and taking action to enable human rights and occupational justice in a hospital context', in Australian Occupational Therapy Journal. vol. 58 (5) , pp.378-385
- Wilcock, Ann A. (2001-04) 'Occupational utopias: Back to the future', in Journal of Occupational Science. vol. 8 (1) , pp.5-12
- Boniface, Gail; Seymour, Alison. (2012) Using occupational therapy theory in practice, Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.
- (no date) Journal of Occupational Science.
- (no date) Creek's Occupational Therapy and Mental Health E-Book.
- Luck, Kerrie; Beagan, Brenda. (2015-04-03) 'Occupational Transition of Smoking Cessation in Women: “You're Restructuring Your Whole Life”', in Journal of Occupational Science. vol. 22 (2) , pp.183-196
- Tester, Nicole J; Jackson Foss, Joanne. (2018) 'Sleep as an Occupational Need.', in American Journal of Occupational Therapy. vol. 72 (1) , pp.1-4
- Gail Whiteford; Clare Hocking. (2012) Occupational science: society, inclusion, participation, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
- Ramugondo, Elelwani L.; Kronenberg, Frank. (2015-01-02) 'Explaining Collective Occupations from a Human Relations Perspective: Bridging the Individual-Collective Dichotomy', in Journal of Occupational Science. vol. 22 (1) , pp.3-16
- Hocking, Clare. (2017-01-02) 'Occupational justice as social justice: The moral claim for inclusion', in Journal of Occupational Science. vol. 24 (1) , pp.29-42
- Price, Pollie; Hooper, Barb; Krishnagiri, Sheama; Taff, Steven D.; Bilics, Andrea. (2017-05-23) 'A Way of Seeing: How Occupation Is Portrayed to Students When Taught as a Concept Beyond Its Use in Therapy', in American Journal of Occupational Therapy. vol. 71 (4) , pp.7104230010p1-
- Gail Boniface; Alison Seymour. (2012) Using occupational therapy theory in practice, Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.
- Hyett, Nerida; Kenny, Amanda; Dickson-Swift, Virginia. (2017-10) 'Approaches for building community participation: A qualitative case study of Canadian food security programs', in OTJR: Occupation, Participation and Health. vol. 37 (4) , pp.199-209
- Crabtree, Jeffrey L. (2010-07-01) 'No One Dresses Accidentally: A Research Synthesis on Intentional Occupational Performance', in OTJR: Occupation, Participation, Health. vol. 30 (3) , pp.100-110
- Ramugondo, Elelwani L. (2012-10) 'Intergenerational Play within Family: The Case for Occupational Consciousness', in Journal of Occupational Science. vol. 19 (4) , pp.326-340
The above list is indicative of the essential reading for the course. The library makes provision for all reading list items, with digital provision where possible, and these resources are shared between students. Further reading can be obtained from this module's reading list.
Assessment items, weightings and deadlines
| Coursework / exam |
Description |
Deadline |
Coursework weighting |
| Coursework |
2000 word blog post. |
|
100% |
Exam format definitions
- Remote, open book: Your exam will take place remotely via an online learning platform. You may refer to any physical or electronic materials during the exam.
- In-person, open book: Your exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer to any physical materials such as paper study notes or a textbook during the exam. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, open book (restricted): The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer only to specific physical materials such as a named textbook during the exam. Permitted materials will be specified by your department. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, closed book: The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may not refer to any physical materials or electronic devices during the exam. There may be times when a paper dictionary,
for example, may be permitted in an otherwise closed book exam. Any exceptions will be specified by your department.
Your department will provide further guidance before your exams.
Overall assessment
Reassessment
Module supervisor and teaching staff
Dr Simone Coetzee, email: scoetzee@essex.ac.uk.
Occupational therapy teaching team
Hannah Duncan ipladmin@essex.ac.uk
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Dr Sunny Chan
UWE Bristol
Senior Lecturer
Available via Moodle
Of 197 hours, 161 (81.7%) hours available to students:
36 hours not recorded due to service coverage or fault;
0 hours not recorded due to opt-out by lecturer(s).
* Please note: due to differing publication schedules, items marked with an asterisk (*) base their information upon the previous academic year.
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