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Faculty of Health Sciences
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Grao en Terapia Ocupacional
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  Work Placement II
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Topic Sub-topic
Transversal topics 1.- Basic theoretical principles for evaluation and professional action from occupational therapy on environments/contexts. An occupational look at:
• Home environment(s)
• Accessibility and universal design.
• Social, historical, cultural and institutional environment(s)

2.-Observation and analysis of environmental factors.
• Introduction to environmental factors.
• Concepts of barriers and facilitators. Identification and analysis in different contexts.
• Use of the context/environment concepts of specific theoretical models of occupational therapy (for example: Person-Environment-Occupation, Canadian Model of Occupational Performance, Kawa Model, Human Occupation Model) for their analysis

3.- Assessment of the environments for participation in occupations:
• Assessment of the accessibility of the environments.
• Observation for evaluation purposes of environments.
• Analysis of the environment from an individual perspective and from a collective perspective.
• Assessment of specific environments based on the occupations they host and the people who perform them.
• Collection of information from the assessment


4.- Design of accessible environments for participation in occupations
• Principles for developing advice.
• Design of specific actions for action in the environment. Examples: functional adaptations of the environment, design of socially facilitating environments, proposals from the perspective of universality, proposals for inclusive environments for all people.

5.- Registration of information:
• Criteria for preparing records of the activities carried out.
• Communication with other professionals.
• Communication with users (person/group/community).
Projects 1.- Participatory community occupational therapy project with social services.
2.- Community social intervention project from social initiative entities.
3.- Community intervention project (collaboration in the IKEA project: more accessible homes for people with functional diversity).
4.- Project for evaluation of immediate environments and home intervention.
5.- Environment design project for all people in the educational field.

*Projects may be susceptible to changes due to the contextual needs of each project.
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