Education for Nebraska Practitioners

Using the Wheelchair Service Provision Guide from RESNA (2011) as a model, this course will present best practice for working as a team with other professionals to provide adaptive equipment service. Interprofessional teamwork is essential to meet clients’ needs and provide ongoing support.

Many barriers can prevent clients’ engagement in occupational therapy sessions, including low mood, poor energy, insufficient motivation, stress, and pain. These factors are also common barriers to occupational performance in meaningful activities. This session summarizes behavioral activation strategies to address these barriers and promote clients’ engagement in therapy and occupations.

This course examines the experiential learning design and application of a master's level community-based OT class and its impact on individuals, groups, and populations secondary to students' connections with local community members.

This course is designed to provide tools for culturally sensitive practice. Starting a the evaluation and occupational profile, it's important to understand how the client's beliefts and values can assist us in providing client-centered care.

This course will connect meaningful, emotional language use as occupational with making possibilities in professional relationships. This connection arises from the presenter’s research and commitment to psychosocial education for making applications across practice settings.

This evidence based course will explore how the power of top-down cortical re-organization and placebos can be incorporated into current interventions. Placebos have been proven to be effective in the treatment of brain injury and chronic pain, among of others. Chronic pain is multifactorial: physical, psychological and social. The dichotomy of somatic vs psychogenic is obsolete. According to the CDC, OT and PT are frontline treatments for chronic pain as an alternative to opioids. Increasingly, therapist are adding top-down cortical re-organization to their current treatments. Over the past two decades there have been a plethora of studies about the effectiveness of placebos. Placebos were previously viewed as an inert marker but research demonstrates that placebos are an active agent. In this session occupational therapy practitioners will learn how to harness the power of placebos.

COVID-19 caused an overwhelming surge in homelessness in 2020. This course discusses an occupational therapy assistant’s experiences while working at an emergency COVID-19 shelter for homeless people.

LIVE Webinar Tuesday, October 19, 2021 5 pm (Central)/ 6pm (Eastern) Learn how to navigate the common challenges of OT and OTA supervision. Gain a better understanding of the roles of the occupational therapy assistant and occupational therapist in the supervisory relationship.

Course participants will leave with a greater understanding and appreciation of the unique roles of OTA and OT practitioners, as well as how licensure may impact these. The inter-relationship between practitioners will be explored and avenues for greater collaboration will be presented.