{"id":39667,"date":"2015-06-17T11:53:19","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T15:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/?page_id=39667"},"modified":"2022-09-26T15:00:43","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T19:00:43","slug":"career","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/academics\/departments-programs\/occupational-therapy\/entryotd\/career\/","title":{"rendered":"Career Options"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/sargent\/files\/2018\/07\/14-7806-SARGILL-037.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-54512 size-full\" width=\"810\" height=\"457\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/files\/2018\/07\/14-7806-SARGILL-037.jpg 810w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/files\/2018\/07\/14-7806-SARGILL-037-636x359.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/files\/2018\/07\/14-7806-SARGILL-037-768x433.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 810px) 100vw, 810px\" \/>An entry-level doctoral degree in occupational therapy prepares you to be a highly competent occupational practitioner, contributor to research, potential leader, future educator, and\/or advocate for the profession.<\/p>\n<h3>Occupational therapists practice in a wide variety of settings:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>hospitals and clinics<\/li>\n<li>community programs<\/li>\n<li>schools and early childhood programs<\/li>\n<li>rehabilitation centers<\/li>\n<li>nursing homes<\/li>\n<li>senior centers<\/li>\n<li>home health care<\/li>\n<li>private practice<\/li>\n<li>military services<\/li>\n<li>government agencies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Examples of occupational therapy clinical activities include:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>evaluating children with developmental disabilities and working with their families to create daily routines and activities that help them grow socially, cognitively, and physically<\/li>\n<li>working with people recovering from stroke to help them resume important daily tasks at home, on the job, and in the community<\/li>\n<li>assisting groups of clients with psychiatric disabilities to identify effective strategies for challenging tasks at work<\/li>\n<li>suggesting changes in the layout, routines, and equipment of home, school, or workplace to support continued independence for aging adults<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>As your clinical knowledge and skills develop, you also can go on to pursue other roles:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>educator<\/li>\n<li>clinical specialist<\/li>\n<li>consultant<\/li>\n<li>researcher<\/li>\n<li>administrator<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <script>\r\n  window.unibuddySettings = {\r\n    uni_id: 'boston-university-college-of-health-rehabilitation-sciences-sargent-college',\r\n    colour: '262221',\r\n    filterKey: 'degreeId',\r\n    filterValue: '62db0bf768b07e6d52769319',\r\n    domain: 'https:\/\/popcard.unibuddy.co\/',\r\n    title: 'Unibuddy Popcard',\r\n    align: 'right',\r\n    ubLang: 'en-US',\r\n    ubCookieConsent: 'necessary',\r\n  };\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script src=https:\/\/cdn.unibuddy.co\/unibuddy-popcard.js type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An entry-level doctoral degree in occupational therapy prepares you to be a highly competent occupational practitioner, contributor to research, potential leader, future educator, and\/or advocate for the profession. Occupational therapists practice in a wide variety of settings: hospitals and clinics community programs schools and early childhood programs rehabilitation centers nursing homes senior centers home health [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1405,"featured_media":0,"parent":37121,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39667"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1405"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39667"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73045,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39667\/revisions\/73045"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sargent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}