Occupational Therapy

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Hiromi FUJII, PhD, OTR (Department head)

Education in Occupational Therapy 

  We teach specialized technology based on scientific knowledge and thought, and educate occupational therapists (OT) with high maturity and an international sense in cooperation with our sister school, Colorado State University.  Furthermore, we aim to improve personnel training which can play an active part in a community as well as health, medical treatment and welfare institutions. 

  Health, medical treatment and welfare of the 21st century vary with aging and a decrease in birthrate.  A human can suffer mental and physical disabilities in everyday life for some periods during a lifetime.  For such, OT is concerned with mental and physical handicapped people from infancy to senile state.  And OT tries to rid those inconveniences of everyday life and a social life and gives support to make the whole process of living easier.  Even if functional and structural disorder remains in mind and body, it is the work of OT that appropriates support for a patient not to have disorder in everyday life.

  Our faculty use advanced knowledge and technology and nurture the OT who acquire affection and common sense. In addition, it is important to improve the practical abilities in field work. Therefore this faculty cooperates with clinical supervisors who have studied occupational therapy for specialty improvement, and there is reflection of this in the way we bring up of our students as a result. 

  Society becomes complicated, and people live in a stress-full environment now. Many people know the philosophy of occupational therapy and occupational therapeutics, and we consult with a patient and make a precise decision and demand the talented person who can offer service of high quality. 

  You, with likelihood, don’t have a limit to the future! We require participation in the field of everyone’s health / medical treatment / welfare to change it into relief from anxiety, into hope from despair, for the people who suffer from a disorder in mind and body. Please access this world spreading out from occupational therapeutics!

Basic Sciences of Occupational Therapy

Basic science of occupational therapy covers knowledge on understanding disability and on aiding developmental, neurological,psychiatric patients and the elderly members of society.

Clinical Practice of Occupational Therapy

Clinical practice focuses on knowledge essential for assessment and treatment in patients. This area of study includes advanced clinical experiences in disabled patients and decision-making regarding therapy for each patient. Students have the opportunity to learn many methods of practice in order to provide care and skills in clinical practice.

Present & Future Research Projects in the Department of Occupational Therapy

The full time staffs of the Department of Occupational Therapy includes four professors, one associate professors, three assistant professors and three lecturers. All staffs not only teach, but also conduct researchs on following subjects.

●basic and clinical research on cognitive disorders

●psycho-physiological approach to cognitive disorders

●movement analysis of disabled patients

●research on occupational performance in disabled patients

Staff

Curriculum