About the Program
Our Mission
The Doctor of Occupational Therapy (OTD) program provides innovative, creative, holistic, interprofessional, mind-and-heart education for developing and empowering ethically competent transformational leaders in occupational therapy and healthcare. Guided and committed to faith integration, reciprocal therapeutic relationships, and understanding the potency of daily life activities, the program prepares practice scholars who use best scientific evidence to be catalysts for change, advocates for occupational justice and to serve humanity.
Program Learning Outcomes :
- Students will develop as holistic, ethically competent healthcare professionals through Whitworth’s mind-and-heart curriculum, which integrates learning with students’ faith or worldviews.
- Students will be prepared to become transformative leaders within the occupational therapy profession and healthcare industry.
- Students will practice with a deep understanding of how the ability to perform daily activities influences patients’ self-identity, optimal performance, participation in society, health and well-being.
- Students will become practice scholars, using critical reasoning and reflective thinking to synthesize information from experience, best available scientific evidence and client preferences, resulting in optimal clinical decision-making.
- Students will develop reciprocal therapeutic client-centered relationships and just communities that value the intrinsic needs of all persons to explore, express self and identity, influence one’s environment to provide growth, self-discovery, and foster connections between personal care, safety, subsistence, pleasure, social participation, creativity and vocation.
