Psychosocial Occupational Therapy - OTAH221

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Occupational Therapy Program Guide:

A guide listing the textbooks, circulating books, journals, and other resources available to you in the library. https://library.raritanval.edu/OTA

A Dedicated Liaison Librarian:

Students in the OTA Program at RVCC can work with any of the librarians if they have questions or research problems. OTA Students also have a liaison librarian, Alyssa Valenti, who is familiar with the course sequence, books and resources which support your program here at RVCC. Alyssa has availability for one-on-one help, email help, chat and phone help. Please reach out or schedule an appointment to get to know your friendly librarian!

Our goals for today's class:

• Understand scholarly communication in the occupational therapy discipline
• Identify different source types and understand why you would choose to use one or the other
• Understand how scholarly journals are organized
• Deconstruct and interpret a specific scholarly journal
• Locate OT journals available in the library
• Name the basic databases available for OT research