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OCCP2101: Self-maintenance and Rest Occupations
2025 unit information
This unit of study examines the impact of occupational performance limitations on occupations that are necessary for self-care at home or in the community. These include mobility, personal care (eating, dressing, bathing, toileting, grooming, etc.) and rest/sleep. Disturbances in self-maintenance and sleep/rest can occur then people experience reduced physical, cognitive and psychosocial capacity and/or environmental constraints. Students will develop skills in the assessment, enhancement, maintenance and restoration of mobility and personal care occupations. Specifically, students will examine: the importance of mobility and personal care to human existence; the concept of maintaining self (physical and psychological); and the importance of sleep and rest to everyday health and function. Students will learn and demonstrate: current approaches to manual handling when assisted transfers are required; mobility sequences (bed, wheelchair and walking mobility), transfers and seating; personal care routines and tasks (eating, dressing, bathing, toileting, grooming and personal hygiene), including parenting children who require additional assistance with mobility and personal care routines; and equipment prescription, including wheelchair prescription and associated sources of funding.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Medicine and Health
| Study level | Undergraduate |
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| Academic unit | Participation Sciences |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Prerequisites:
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OCCP1103 and OCCP1105 and OCCP2090 |
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Corequisites:
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None |
| Prohibitions:
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OCCP2085 |
| Assumed knowledge:
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OCCP1101 and OCCP1102 and OCCP1104 |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. Define the concepts of “self maintenance and rest” and frame the assessment of client abilities and limitations within an occupation-based theoretical framework.
- LO2. Apply a consumer/client perspective to the identification of self-care issues and practices for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and people of culturally diverse backgrounds.
- LO3. Demonstrate the skills necessary to assess clients’ abilities and limitations in performing their daily self maintenance and rest activities appropriate to clients’ lifestage and role within their home and community environment.
- LO4. Determine the appropriateness of, and select from a variety of self-care assessment methods including interviews, clinical observation, standardized and non-standardized assessments.
- LO5. Link assessment findings to an intervention plan which incorporates goals, strategies, and selection of appropriate measurement of intervention outcomes.
- LO6. Demonstrate knowledge of interventions that enable self maintenance and rest, including [but not limited to]: functional skills training, remediation, task modification, environmental modifications, psychological interventions and assistive technology.
- LO7. Describe and critique published evidence about the assessments and interventions
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| Session | MoA ? | Location | Outline ? |
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Semester 1 2025
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Normal day | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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