Acquisition of knowledge and skills to be able to carry out Occupational Therapy interventions with children from vulnerable groups
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1. Relevant concepts and theories in the field of Occupational Therapy with children:
2. Development of the occupation in childhood: concepts and theories on development during childhood, occupational skills and competences.
3. Evaluation in occupational therapy with children from vulnerable groups: purpose of evaluation, standardized tests, advantages and disadvantages of standardized tests, ethical issues.
4. Therapeutic intervention: motor control, ecological context, motor performance, motor dysfunctions, application of motor control and learning theories.
5. Hand functioning, assessment and intervention: components of hand motor skills, factors that influence hand mobility, development of hand motor skills in children.
6. Sensory integration: sensory integration theory, sensory integration problems, therapeutic interventions with children with sensory integration problems.
7. Interventions to promote social participation in children: impairments of social participation in children, assessment of social participation, interventions for the development of social skills.

Lecture, conversation, examples

-Students will know how to identify and evaluate occupational performance in children in specific occupational areas;

-Students will be able to identify and evaluate problematic situations related to children's behavior,

-Students will know the methods and intervention strategies for increasing the occupational performance of children in different areas of occupation,

-Students will know how to design and apply therapeutic interventions in children;

Students will know how to develop therapeutic relationships with children and motivate their participation in activities,

 

Written exam

Smith, Case Jane, O Brien Jane Clifford., Ocupational Therapy for Children and Adolescents, Elsevier , St. loouis , 2015 , 1-65
Serkan Perkcetin, Ayla Günal., Early Intervention in Pediatric Occupational Therapy,, Intech , London , 2017 , 65-96
none, none, none , Abrud , 2005 , 300