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This course is designed to provide students with the knowledge and skills to administer best practice occupational therapy services to persons with substance-related and addictive disorders (i.e. “addiction”). Addiction often co-occurs not only with other mental illness but also with stroke, traumatic brain injury, and many other diagnoses, so skills obtained in this course will be valuable regardless of the occupational therapy practice setting. Students who take this course will:

1)	Use scholarly literature and educational resources to design and implement a 6-week “community participation” intervention for persons with addiction(s) (B.2.7.-10.) 2)	Effectively measure psychosocial and occupational factors through the administration of occupational therapy assessments (B.4.1) 3)	Interview occupational therapists in a variety of settings to collect information about current methods for addressing addiction and the prevalence of addiction in clients referred for services (B.7.11) 4)	Contribute to scholarly literature by developing a Wikipedia article addressing key issues related to occupation and addiction such as the concepts of occupational deprivation, occupational apartheid, and/or occupation-based interventions for addiction (B.2.1.-5.)

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