La Trobe University’s Master of Occupational Therapy Practice program in Australia aims to give graduates from another discipline a professional qualification in occupational therapy.  Students will develop knowledge and skills in assessment and intervention, the therapeutic use of occupation and the adaptation of environments.

Students are expected to demonstrate by the end of a course that they can:

• Critically analyse and apply occupational, biopsychosocial and cultural understandings in order to plan, implement and evaluate occupational therapy practice in diverse and changing contexts.
• Integrate and apply diverse understandings and strategies to support occupational participation, health and wellbeing among individuals and communities.
• Critically analyse research evidence to enable knowledge translation for ethically informed and evidence based occupational therapy practice.
• Collaborate and communicate effectively with professional and non-professional stakeholders using advanced verbal, non-verbal and written skills.
• Exercise personal autonomy and collaborative decision making in the application of professional knowledge and skills in a range of health related contexts.
• Critically reflect on learning and practice using digital literacies and appropriate technologies to support continued personal and professional development.