A minimum of 1,000 hours (approximately one third of the course) is spent on practice placements
Students gain experience in the main areas of occupational therapy, usually in physical rehabilitation, learning disabilities, mental health or social care and, increasingly, in new and emerging areas. Students also learn how to assess people in their community and then jointly decide how to use purposeful and meaningful occupations to achieve agreed goals. This normally occurs under the guidance of an occupational therapist, with you as the student responsible for a group of clients.
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