Advanced Communication Skills for Occupational Therapy

Learning Outcomes

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Demonstrate the application of advanced occupational therapy skills, by holding self and others to account by the evaluation of our own and others values, assumptions and judgements
• Evaluate your ability to support, educate and mentor others to reflect on their behaviour to maintain a high level of professional practice
• Critically reflect on and appropriately modify your practice in response to feedback and learning

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• The use of occupational narratives to explore the complexity of occupational beings within their environments.
• Critically reflect on and appropriately modify your practice in response to feedback and learning.
• Impact of a critical analysis of your application of therapeutic dialogue knowledge and skills, and how this can influence yourself as a therapist, your service users and multi-disciplinary professionals.
• The application of advanced communication skills to support your occupational therapy practice.

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

Audio or Video Recording

• Assessment Type: Formative
• Feedback: In-class from lecturers and peers.
• Final Assessment: No
• Group Work: Yes

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.