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5001OT Reasoning and Decision Making in Occupational Therapy Practice assignment

Assignment

Please read this alongside the course work briefing and the FAQ document. There is also a discussion forum, and detailed marking criteria on AULA.

You can also ask questions within your seminar about the assignment.

Formative assessment: Preparing for the summative assessment
The formative assessment opportunity is there for you to receive feedback on your developing assignment plan and to clarify your thoughts with your seminar tutor.

•You will be provided with a template within your first seminar session which has been designed to enable you to work on developing your assignment week by week. We will explain both parts of the formative assessment in detail during your first seminar session.
•You will submit part 1 of the template to your seminar tutor during your seminar week commencing 28th of September 2020. Feedback will be provided by your seminar tutor.
•You will also have an opportunity for further formative feedback on part 2 of the formative assessment, which is submitted during your seminar week commencing 19th of October 2020.
There are two tutorials one in week commencing 9th of November and the second in week commencing 23rd of November which will give you an opportunity to discuss your feedback and ask aquestions about the assignment.

Summative Assessment
• Your 3000 word essay will focus on the case study you have been provided with at the beginning of the module. You will have been used to working on this case study within small groups within seminars to help develop your thinking and understanding related to the Occupational Therapy process and application of theory. Please note that although you will be working together it is important that you do not share your work or copy each other as this could result in a referral to the academic conduct team if this is an issue within your summative work.

• You are required to justify a decision made in practice using theory and evidence to support your rationale and explain why the decision was made with your particular case study. We recommend that you use an intervention as this is the most straightforward decision to justify.

• You do not need to introduce or explain the case study within your writing but you do need to clearly identify which case study you are using. You must also identify the specific intervention goal within your introduction to set the scene and clarify the context surrounding the intervention.

• You need to write your work as an essay with an introduction, main body and conclusion and provide a reference list at the end. You will not need to use headings as this is an academic essay rather than a report.

• You are not required to discuss and describe the whole Occupational Therapy process or what happened or make reference to each stage of the process.

• Throughout your assignment you need to write in the third person.

• You will choose one intervention and discuss this in depth. To keep this focused you need to choose a specific and clearly defined intervention For example: joining a gardening group. You need to link your intervention to occupation so that it is occupation focused - this can be linked directly for example gardening as a leisure pursuit or indirectly for example- provision of a bath board to promoting personal hygiene which will then encourage your case study to be able to engage in occupations of their choice.

• You are required to justify your intervention in a way which demonstrates an occupational therapy perspective rather than discussing your rationale broadly.

• Depth is needed rather than breadth for example -focusing on one particular intervention is important rather than a range of interventions.

• The reasoned rationale is about discussing why a particular decision was made for your particular case study and justifying this with evidence. You must focus on why the decision was made and avoid the trap of just describing what the decision was.

• You are advised to use the bubble diagram or your own mind map to plan and prepare for your assignment. This will help you to break down the different elements of your decision and then consider why this specific decision was made with your particular case study. You must support your rationale with evidence and theory from the published literature. Some of this may be within the module's AULA pages, but you are also expected to do your own wider reading

• In considering evidence you are required to justify your chosen intervention goal and provide a rationale for your chosen intervention by using theory and evidence in relation to models, frames of reference, clinical reasoning and occupational science.

• You must adhere CU Harvard Referencing Style.

Attachment:- Occupational Therapy Practice assignment.rar