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Occupational Therapy at University of South Australia

Locality: Adelaide, South Australia

Phone: +61 8 8302 2425

Address: Cnr North Terrace and Frome Road 5000 Adelaide, SA, Australia

Website: www.unisa.edu.au/hls

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20.01.2022 Someone has been out collecting goodies from sponsors for the conference show bags today... and this isn’t even half of it!! Thanks to OTFC, HCA and AnglicareSA for today’s goodies!! #UniSAspilltheOT

20.01.2022 This Thursday, December 3, is International Day of People With Disability, 39 years since the International year in 1981. Nas Campanella reminds us below that Social change takes a long time. ...... In 1976, the General Assembly proclaimed 1981 as the International Year of Disabled Persons (IYDP)*. It called for a plan of action at the national, regional and international levels, with an emphasis on equalization of opportunities, rehabilitation and p...revention of disabilities. The theme of IYDP was full participation and equality, defined as the right of persons with disabilities to take part fully in the life and development of their societies, enjoy living conditions equal to those of other citizens, and have an equal share in improved conditions resulting from socio-economic development. Other objectives of the Year included: increasing public awareness; understanding and acceptance of persons with disabilities; and encouraging persons with disabilities to form organizations through which they can express their views and promote action to improve their situation. A major lesson of the Year was that the image of persons with disabilities depends to an important extent on social attitudes; these were a major barrier to the realization of the goal of full participation and equality in society by persons with disabilities. * General Assembly resolution 31/123 Ref: UN.Org

20.01.2022 Last year we asked our final year Master's Students to write a letter to their future self... around their expectations of who they wanted to be as therapist and what they thought the future held... TODAY - they can open them! To those students: We are sure that this isn't the first year of practice you thought you would have - but looking back on your letter - has anything surprised you?

20.01.2022 Registrations for the IAHA National Online Conference 2020 are still open - 2 WEEKS to go.

14.01.2022 The Cecilie Bearup Prize is awarded annually to the student in their final year of the Bachelor of Occupational Therapy, who is perceived by peers to embody the highest professional characteristics. Miss Bearup was the first head of school and pioneer of occupational therapy development in South Australia. Next week the 2020 prize recipient will be awarded. Past Prize Winners Where are they now? Phil Maxwell winner of the Cecilie Bearup Prize 1991 shares his reflections:...Continue reading

12.01.2022 An important new evidence source - for download now. How will you go about reading, understanding and processing the implications of the evidence and making change to your practice if needed? Time to set a goal and make a plan ? . OT Reg Board CPD guidelines recommend interactive, reflective professional activity to support competency . Life Long Learning

08.01.2022 To the 2020 graduates from the Editor of the Australian Occupational Therapy Journal, Professor Louise Gustafsson .... After a year of hurdles your next step is deceptively simple: choose your part, however small, and the rest will follow.

07.01.2022 The OT Roundtable featuring SA’s Bradley Bird Williams -

07.01.2022 Opportunity in Darwin

04.01.2022 AN OCCUPATIONAL PERSPECTIVE OF LOCK DOWN 2 Today we gained an occupational lens on lockdown from Dr Angela Berndt Program Director of OT here at UniSA. An interesting insight into the concept of space and objects that can support this. ... I feel lucky everyday as I live in a beautiful part of the city in an apartment that my husband and I downsized into. We never lived in a big house, so the downsizing bit is a misnomer but we are usually just the two of us. However, just now, my adult daughter and her partner are camping with us while they move between homes. So the lockdown meant the four of us. In our old house we only ever had one bathroom all the teen years, so when I reflect now on space and privacy, it’s not that aspect of self care I’m thinking of. Its more about space for thoughts and space for quiet. The last few days has been an ebb and flow of us moving around from space to space, doing work and doing relaxation. I camped with my laptop on the balcony (with the view); Michael took the kitchen table, Steph nested into the sofa and Gus wandered from kitchen to the back spaces, cooking or playing guitar. But an object that was consistent for all of us was headphones / ear buds. If you had asked me what object might you use the most in lockdown, I would never had guessed. Although in hindsight it seems quite logical. So much of what we did during the day needed to be individual, as I worked on active case management for students, Michael worked on how to shut down a factory, Steph and Gus worked on how to close a restaurant and Gus cooked all the food that would have gone to waste. So many zooms and calls trying not to talk over and intersect each other and not to breach confidentiality and so on. By the end of the day when we all wanted space, we put on our headphones again and retreated into our own worlds for our ‘quiet’ time. No stated agreement, just a drift to alone time. Gus to music, Michael to comedy, Steph to Netflix and me to politics updates. Bit by bit, as we all recalibrated, the head phones got put away, the devices went off and we started to talk and laugh together. The shared music went on and the food and communal eating and talking began. But those head phones were vital for a lockdown day in so many ways. What a strange day.

04.01.2022 Dear OT community, An Update on how we are swimming. While most of our student assessments and activities were completed before last week’s circuit break lockdown, and staff are in the big marking phase... we still had a few things to go. Some students were / are still on placement and we once again send our heartfelt thanks to all the OTs and staff in agencies that helped us triage that to good outcomes! Some exams have been rescheduled, skills demos planned, replanned an...d planned again, the Capstone Conference and Prize Giving (sadly) is going to be online. All that change and change again is stressful Many people are feeling the disappointment about the Student Conference. We really thought we were going to Achieve a face to face event, but we will still experience the emotional closure that we know students and staff need at the end of their learning journey with each other. Occupational rituals and endings to close the longest group work you may ever do . Massive shout out to the students and course coordinator . It’s the year of readjusted motivation and drive, big breaths and adaptation. Staff and students alike are tired and digging deep for the last push to the end of this academic year. As Program Director, I wish to thank everyone for their patience, recognise our staff unlimited student centredness, applaud our student resilience and grit. We CAN do it. Best regards Ang

02.01.2022 AN OCCUPATIONAL PERSPECTIVE OF LOCK-DOWN we asked our team to share their occupational perspectives of lock down! We are kicking off today with one of our lecturers - Sarah McMullen-Roach Sarah's occupational perspective of lockdown: ... Something I always say to our 4th year students as they embark on the exciting journey of their final year clinical placements is use something you know to make sense of something you don’t. Generally in this sense I am speaking about using the OPPM, AOTA, the PEO, COPM, theoretical approaches etc to make sense of the experience of placement and placement learning. Having always been one for listening to my own advice I decided to apply that concept to this lock down period (something I don’t know!). So I began exploring my own lock down experience through the lens of the P.E.O (something I do know) with the aim of trying to figure out how to maintain my wellbeing throughout this time. As many of us know the P.E.O looks deceptively simply, but through a maze of complexities we achieve this goal of occupational performance. But what happens when the environment is constrained? The occupations restricted? As I listened to the press conference yesterday these thoughts and a rising panic began in this person!. However, 1 day in, I have begun to play with the concept of occupational performance and the idea that maybe we need to be a little flexible with what our own sense of occupationally performing may be! I can accept I have limited capacity to change my environment (sure I’ve changed the garage into a gym and puppy play space but for the next 6 days this home is it), I’m fairly limited in my capacity to modify many of my occupations (although puppy walks are now a hallway event), so the biggest area to make the shift to get that magic overlap is the person! Which really got me thinking - Over the next 6 days what occupations will be most meaningful to me? - What is my current capacity to perform these occupations? - How will I achieve a sense of achievement for my own wellbeing? - Finally what will I aim to include each day to achieve a state of flow? So far these questions remain un-answered but I really believe that as OT's if we maintain this occupational outlook and idea that optimal occupational performance might look slightly different based on our shifting circles of environment, occupation and person we might just be ok! What are you occupation based plans to manage your wellbeing during lockdown?

01.01.2022 For all our very soon to be new grads!!