TO DO: Delete this post and create your own Week 1 Reflective post. Add it to the Professional Competencies Categories it relates to. You can also add some tags that help describe the focus on your post.
Use text, images and multimedia to effectively describe your professional skills and experience.
The Australian Occupational Therapy Competency Standards are summarized below:
- Standard 1 – Professionalism: An occupational therapist practises in an ethical, safe, lawful and accountable manner, supporting client health and wellbeing through occupation and consideration of the person and their environment.
- Standard 2 – Knowledge and learning: An occupational therapist’s knowledge, skills and behaviours in practice are informed by relevant and contemporary theory, practice knowledge and evidence, and are maintained and developed by ongoing professional development and learning.
- Standard 3 – Occupational therapy process and practice: An occupational therapist’s practice acknowledges the relationship between health, wellbeing and human occupation, and their practice is client-centred for individuals, groups, communities and populations.
- Standard 4 – Communication: Occupational therapists practise with open, responsive and appropriate communication to maximise the occupational performance and engagement of clients and relevant others.
Visit the OTAUS website for more information.
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