JOINT ACTION PROGRAMME Socrates, Leonardo, Youth

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JOINT ACTION PROGRAMMESocrates, Leonardo, Youth

• Facilitation and Participation of Young Persons
  with Disabilities in an Enlarged Europe

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Partners Associations of Persons with
disabilitiesENOTHE European Network of OT in
HE6 Universities3 in Romania, (Timisoara,
Bacau and Oradea)2 in Bulgaria,1 Hungary
Special and regular schoolsRehabilitation
centresCounty Councils
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Definition of OTENOTHE (2000)

• Occupational therapy uses a client centred
  approach through the medium of activity to enable
  occupational performance and promote well being
  within the environment, in order to enhance
  quality of life

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Terminology

• Enabling Empowerment
• Quality of Life
• Meaningful Activity
• Occupational performance

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Number of practising occupational therapists in
Europe
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Geographical distribution of the occupational
therapy educational institutes in Europe
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NUMBER OF PRACTISING OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS PER
100.000 INHABITANTS
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Working areas of Occupational Therapists

• Hospitals
• Rehabilitation centres
• Nursing homes
• Health centres
• Activity day centres
• Home care
• Schools
• City councils
• Community
• Industries
• Prisons
• Streetchildren/occupational deprived groups
• Research

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Main objectives of the project

• Implementation of the (new) policies concerning
  persons with disabilities
• New services and projects focusing on inclusion
  of children with disabilities in mainstream
  schools
• OT education with a flexible Bachelors/ Masters/
  Postgraduate structure
• The recognition of the OT profession in BG/HU/RO

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The project will contribute to

• the reform of higher education
• the reform of the social sector

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Reform of Education followingThe
BOLOGNA-DECLARATION

• Adoption of a system of easily readable and
  comparable degrees (International
  Diploma-supplement)
• Increasing international competitiveness

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• Two main cycles, undergraduate and graduate
  (Bachelor-Master)
• A system of credits (ECTS)
• PROMOTION OF
• MOBILITY OF STUDENTS AND TEACHERS
• EUROPEAN CO-OPERATION IN QUALITY ASSURANCE
• THE NECESSARY EUROPEAN DIMENSIONS

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World Federation of Occupational Therapists

• Minimum Educational
  Standards
• Code of Ethics

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Essential areas for competent practice
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Curriculum Guidelines
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• The philosophy
• people
• health and well being
• activity
• What is a competent OT
• Guiding principles for curriculum design
• Quality assurance system

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Reform of Social Sector following ICF

• Human Functioning not disability alone
• Body functions vs impairments
• Body Structures
• Activities vs activity limitation
• 1980 disability
• Participation vs handicap

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Medical versus Social Model

• PERSONAL problem vs SOCIAL problem
• medical care vs social integration
• individual treatment vs social action
• professional help vs individual collective
  responsibility
• personal vs environmental
  adjustment manipulation
• behaviour vs attitude
• care vs human rights
• health care policy vs politics
• individual adaptation vs social change

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Universal Model vs. Minority Model
Everyone may have disability Continuum Multi-dimen
sional
Certain impairment groups Categorical Uni-dimensio
nal
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Modules

• Module on philosophy and core foundations of
  occupational therapy
• Module on OT theories and frames of references
• Modules on the role of occupational therapy in
  the paediatrics, adult rehabilitation, psychiatry
  and elderly
• Module focusing on persons with learning
  disabilities
• Module on project development and OT management
• Module focusing on street-children

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The modules have the following structure

• Self-study pre course work
• Intensive course dissemination seminar
  (organised by local partners in co-operation with
  foreign partners)
• Distance supervision
• Assessment

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Target groups of the project Groups of (young)
persons with all kind of disabilities The
lecturers and faculties the participating
universities Workers in the field of
disability Staff of the counties and local
authorities
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What is new?

• A new approach, based on client-centeredness and
  participation of disabled in all life areas
• Introduction of a new profession in BG/HU/RO
• Introduction of new teaching methods, problem-and
  project based and distance learning
• The direct involvement of all partners
• The shift from institutional care towards
  community care
• Opportunities for new research (participation
  through occupation)
• The development of a shared vision between health
  and social care for persons with disabilities

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The first Occupational Therapistsin
Romania,Bulgaria and Hungary