This online course offers occupational therapy professionals an opportunity to better understand trauma and the occupational therapy role.

The course provides occupational therapists with foundational knowledge about primary care and the services they can provide in this setting. The module introduces learners to primary care, including definitions, core elements, equity-oriented primary care, models to support collaborative interprofessional practice and case examples. This module has been collaboratively developed with six professions and designed to provide a common understanding of primary care for all interprofessional primary care providers.

This online course will equip occupational therapy professionals and students with a better understanding of self-regulation and strategies to support the self-regulation of children and youth using the presenter’s evidence-based BEST (Body, Emotional, Sensory and Thinking) strategies framework.

The course provides occupational therapists with foundational knowledge about primary care and the services they can provide in this setting. The module highlights the unique lens of occupational therapy in primary care, with the goal of building the capacity of the profession to practice in collaborative primary teams. The module reviews evidence for occupational therapy services in primary care, along with assessments and interventions, within a culturally safer, equity oriented primary care context.

This online course aims help Canadian occupational therapy clinicians enhance their leadership skills and apply coaching principles to their practice.