Occupational therapy (OT) is a global health care and justice-oriented profession. Preparing OT students to include justice as a part that intersects with practice—and not as an optional choice—should be an essential component of academic learning in OT programs. The American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA) Vision 2025 adopted a strong commitment to inclusion, diversity, and equity, declaring that every individual has the right to feel valued, welcomed, and respected (AOTA, 2018). In this OT doctoral project, the author has developed an educational guide, Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity in Academic Learning - Occupational Therapy (IDEAL-OT) for OT programs. This project was designed to integrate inclusion, diversity, and equity within the OT curricula to be a woven aspect in the OT students' clinical reasoning and professional performance to serve diverse population appropriately. The author aims to fill existing gaps in the literature on adopting the cultural humility lens within OT profession through a theory driven, client-centered, and evidence-based approach as a road map to meeting the OT profession’s standards and clients’ diverse needs. By adopting this project, OT students will demonstrate and practice OT within the cultural humility scope by improving self-efficacy in serving diverse population and meet the client's culturally individualized needs, and advocate for individuals with limited opportunities as global citizens, agents of change, and life-long learners.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:bu.edu/oai:open.bu.edu:2144/44475 |
| Date | 23 May 2022 |
| Creators | Damrah, Nancy |
| Contributors | Abbott-Gaffney, Cynthia |
| Source Sets | Boston University |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis/Dissertation |
Page generated in 0.0019 seconds