的 Occupational 的rapy Program offers a choice of several types of clinics as a practicum course for graduate occupational therapy students. Clinic choices include: mental health, physical disabilities, and pediatric clinics preschool/school age. 的 clinics are designed to provide O.T students with an opportunity to further develop their clinical skills under the supervision of a faculty member. 虽然校园 clinics (originally called senior clinic) have existed at 菠菜网lol正规平台 since 1944 ( Pedretti, 1993 ), a clinic solely for people with serious mental illness was not introduced 陷入困境.T. curriculum until 1982 ( Klasson and MacRae, 1985 ). 在所有的菠菜网lol正规平台 clinics, each student therapist is assigned 一个 client for the semester for whom the student has primary responsibility for evaluation and the development of a treatment 计划. However, a student therapist may actually treat two or even three clients during the course of the semester because 诊所 often over enrolls clients to compensate for a relatively high rate of absenteeism. Group activity is 一个 intervention tool that is used in 诊所s to help familiarize the students with every client in 诊所.

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Concurrent with each clinic is a seminar facilitated by a faculty member and usually a graduate assistant. This seminar is for instruction, support and supervision. 的 seminar operates like a team meeting, with the faculty member filling the dual roles of student instructor and clinical supervisor. By conducting the seminar as a team meeting, 诊所 supervisor invokes privileges of confidentiality. 这意味着 participants are not to discuss any aspect of client evaluation or treatment outside of the seminar or clinic without expressed written consent of the client.