Course Description
Course Description:
This intermediate-level course provides an overview of existing and emerging occupational justice-focused practices. It offers an innovative intervention to aid practitioners in furthering their capacity to promote occupational justice in clients’ contexts. Learners will be provided opportunities for reflection on true stories from people’s experiences of occupational injustice. The course will encourage critical thinking toward more occupational justice-focused practices. It will conclude with reflections on diversity, equity, and inclusion within the field of occupational therapy and action steps that we, as a profession, can take to improve in these areas.
Contact Hours: 2
Target Audience:
Instructional Level: IntermediateAccreditation Information:
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Course Goals & Objectives:
Course Goals:
A hallmark of occupational justice-focused theory, evaluation, intervention, and outcomes is that they target policies and contextual factors to increase opportunities for occupational engagement. Occupational therapists can use this knowledge as a barometer for exploring how they might adapt their practice to increase focus on occupational justice. Building awareness about existing systems of oppression can help occupational therapists adopt informed approaches for addressing systemic occupational injustices.
Seeking and welcoming opportunities for anti-racism and implicit provider bias training can further support occupational therapists working toward more occupational justice-centered approaches to care. An important first step in this work is willing to recognize a problem exists, and being willing to undertake a lifelong journey toward uncovering and addressing bias in order to engender positive change. The reader is encouraged to complete the learning activities that follow to broaden their skill set with justice-centered approaches to occupational therapy service delivery.
Professional Objectives:
- Differentiate applications of the Participatory Occupational Justice Framework (POJF) and the Framework of Occupational Justice (FOJ).
- Explain the impacts of systemic oppression in the form(s) of racism, sexism, ableism, heterosexism, colonialism, cisgenderism, and gender binarism.
- Distinguish what it means to use disability studies as a methodology and explain for whom disability studies methodological approaches apply.
- Articulate several assessment tools, the constructs they measure, and their relationships to occupational justice.
Disclosures:
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Contact Hours: 2 contact hours in length (check your state’s approval status in the state specific course catalog for your profession).
Target Audience: Occupational Therapist, Occupational Therapist Assistant
Instructional Level: Intermediate
Criteria for Completion: Criteria for Completion: A score of 70% or more is considered passing. Scores of less than 75% indicate a failure to understand the material and the test will need to be taken again until a passing score has been achieved
Personnel Disclosure:
Financial – Sally Wasmuth is employed and receives a salary. She receives payment from Colibri Healthcare, LLC for the presentation of this course.
Nonfinancial - no relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.
No relevant conflicts of interest exist for any member of the activity planning committee.
Content Disclosure: This course does not focus solely on any specific product or service
Cancellation Policy: For activity cancellation, returns, or complaint resolution, please contact us by email help@homeceu.com or by phone at 1.800.55.4CEUS (2387). We have a 100% satisfaction guarantee. Refunds will be issued for courses that have not been completed (exam not taken), or for any course that has been rejected by your board of approval. Webinar attendance must be canceled 24 hours before the scheduled start time.
Authors:
Sally Wasmuth, PhD, MA, OTR
Sally Wasmuth, PhD, MA, OTR, received her PhD in critical and philosophical studies of biology from the University of Exeter in 2012. She has also received a master of arts degree in philosophy of biology (2007) and a master of science degree in occupational therapy (2011), and completed a 2-year postdoctoral training at the Roudebush Veterans Administration Medical Center in Indianapolis, Indiana. She is currently assistant professor in the Department of Occupational Therapy at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). Dr. Wasmuth has been conducting research on the neurobiology of addiction and the bidirectional relationships between addiction and human occupation since 2006, and has published several papers on the subject in the Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, the American, British, and Canadian Journals of Occupational Therapy, and the Journal of Occupational Science. She has coauthored papers on mental health employee burnout and integrated dual disorder treatment (IDDT) implementation and has been the principal or co-investigator on several related grants. Dr. Wasmuth has published her own theoretical model of addiction and piloted an occupation-based treatment approach to facilitate community engagement in people recovering from addiction. She recently was the recipient of a $750,000.00 Community Foundation Grant to further implement and study this intervention model. Dr. Wasmuth has taught mental health to doctoral- and master’s-level occupational therapy students since 2013 and has been an invited guest lecturer for several universities and organizations including the University of Southern California and the Psychosocial Occupational Therapy Action Coalition (POTAC) in San Francisco. She was the invited plenary speaker at the International Institute on the Model of Human Occupation (MOHO), where she discussed the concept of addiction-as-occupation, and has presented her work at several AOTA annual and specialty conferences.
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