Online Resource

Recorded Webinar

Length

1 hour

Original Recording

April 2019

Access Details

Once you have registered and paid for the course, you will be emailed information on how to set up your online learning account and how to access the course.

Emails containing the link are sent out each Tuesday and Friday. (Please refer to the 'Webinar Platform' section for more information). Access is given for a period of 4 weeks. Please note, extensions will incur a fee.

Dates Available for Purchase

Up to 15 October 2019

OVERVIEW

As OT’s, we can’t escape that our major models of practice hold “body, mind and spirit” out to us as being vital. Yet actually addressing spirituality in OT remains largely taboo or an isolated academic exercise. There is little research, training or consensus regarding how to address spirituality with clients - particularly in Australia. The result of all this is that many, if not most, Australian OT’s are awkward about spirituality.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

This webinar seeks to provide an introduction to the main themes involved with addressing Spirituality in OT. This includes appreciating the evidence base behind it, understanding what spiritual themes are and how we see it in OT, and why it should matter to us. Then we’ll honestly discuss how to practically address it as clinicians in a variety of settings, and what some helpful resources and first steps might be.

WEBINAR OUTLINE

How will this webinar enable participants to work occupationally with clients/patients?

Body, mind AND spirit form the basis of our OT understanding of a person. Spirituality underpins many occupational choices and is not only a matter of isolated private beliefs. Rather, it impacts a client’s motivation for participating in OT treatment and his/her working through suffering. It is highly social and cultural and provides many clients with their main support network when disability or disease come. Finally, it is our way of making sense of our place in the world and finding meaning in our occupations.

TARGET AUDIENCE

This webinar is suitable for all Occupational Therapists including Students. 

PRESENTER

Heather So: I graduated from the University of Sydney in 2007 with my Bachelor of App. Sc. (OT). I also obtained my Graduate Diploma of Divinity from Ridley College in 2017. In terms of my occupational roles, I’m married and have 3 young daughters. I’ve worked in adult settings both in Sydney and the UK, before entering into paediatric practice over 8 years ago. I now work part time as a paediatric OT in private practice. I started becoming more interested in addressing spirituality alongside body and mind within OT because of my family. So this Webinar introduction to Spirituality and OT originates from my experiences as a clinician, mother, aunty and granddaughter. These ideas have been discussed with many other therapists, including a support group of Christian OT’s. Finally, this content has been sharpened by research and framed around the work of some great leaders in the field of spiritual care.

Sarah Cole: I graduated from the University of Sydney in 2005 with my Bachelor of App. Sc. (OT), and then from the University of Wollongong in 2017 with a Masters of Science (Dementia Care). Over my career I’ve worked in a variety of different settings, both adult and paediatric, in acute and community based centres and in rural and metro hospitals in NSW. I currently work full time as a Team Leader in the Rehabilitation, Aged Care and Stroke (RACS) service) at Blacktown Mount Druitt Hospitals. In regards to my occupational roles, I’m a sister, daughter and aunt. I’m passionate about growing and developing occupational therapists to be the best versions of themselves through education, support and experience.  

FEES 

OTA Member: $56

OTA New Graduate Member: $48

Non Member: $80

Webinar Platform

This resource is run through our external learning platform - Course Genius. All registrants will receive two emails, one containing information on how to set up their online course account and a second, notifying them of when a course has been allocated to them. Please be sure to check all email folders including junk and clutter.

CPD HOURS

By attending this CPD event, members will be able to claim 1 hour towards their CPD requirements.
As this is a webinar series, it is the responsibility of the individual to upload this CPD activity into your PD tracker.

Certificates will be available once you have completed the course (including the feedback section) through the Course Genius

DISCLAIMER

All information is correct at the time of publication. OTA reserves the right to alter or delete items from the CPD calendar as required, and takes no responsibility for any errors, omissions and changes.

All webinar resources including copies of the presentation, along with all supporting documents and links are not for distribution and are the property of the presenter.

Please see our full refund and cancellation policy here:

https://www.otaus.com.au/pdeducationcontentpages/cancellation-refund-policy

CONTACT

Mimi Rodriguez | cpdevents@otaus.com.au

Please allow up to 3 business days for a response.