Activities – the PAL instrument:
a guide for
occupational therapists
Suitable for
Occupational Therapists
Description
This workshop is intended for Occupational Therapists, working with people with cognitive impairments, who want to use a reliable and valid instrument to assess and plan treatment programmes with their patients and service users.
Attendance choice
1 day
Learning outcomes
On completion of the course participants will have:
- An understanding of the specialist skills which Occupational Therapists have in working with people with cognitive impairment
- An understanding of the theoretical framework which underpins Occupational Therapy practice and cognitive impairment
- Become familiar with the Pool Activity Level (PAL) Instrument (Pool, 2007)
- Identified issues regarding the implementation of the PAL
- Described the ethical issues in the assessment of people with cognitive impairment
Programme includes
- The role of the Occupational Therapist working with people with cognitive impairment- the context
- Introducing the PAL Instrument for Occupational Profiling
- Reliability and Validity of the PAL Checklist
- Small group exercise: Using the PAL Checklist in case studies
- Using the PAL profiles to grade activities
- Implementation issues
- Ethics of assessment
- Reflecting on learning from the day and Action Plan
