OC TH 3000 - Introduction to Occupational Therapy

This course offers in-depth exploration of occupation, the primary modality of occupational therapy. Emphasis will be on appreciation of occupation in personal experience in order to be more effective in therapeutic applications of occupation. Topics include: occupations in history, personal meaning of occupations, pleasure/play and leisure, productivity/paid and unpaid work, restoration/sleep and waking rest, temporal dimensions of occupation, spatial patterns in occupations, sociocultural context of occupation, and effective therapeutic use of occupations in practice.