Exploring Ethics in Sensory Integration Practice

  • Presenter: Teresa A. May-Benson, ScD, OTR/L, FAOTA
  • Level: Intermediate.
  • Access: All parts of the course, including assignments, must be completed within a 7 week viewing window.
  • Contact Hours: 1.5 contact hours
  • AOTA Areas: Occupational Therapy Service Delivery Domain: Performance Skills, Context and Environment Process: Evaluation, Intervention
  • Audience: Occupational therapists, OT assistants, physical therapists, PT assistants and students, speech and language therapists, teachers, and educators.
  • Completion Requirements: To earn contact hours for this course participants must view this course in its entirety, and successfully complete the accompanying course quiz
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Course overview
Health care professionals are constantly faced with ethical dilemmas and occupational therapist who provide sensory integration-based intervention services are no exception. This webinar will explore the basic tenants of ethics in occupational therapy and apply them to practice. Occupational therapists utilizing a sensory integration frame of reference can face unique ethical challenges involving provision of services, documentation or reimbursement. This webinar will discuss some of these ethical dilemmas and provide a clinical reasoning model to assist clinicians in addressing these difficult situations.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this webinar participants will be able to:

Identify the core ethical values espoused in occupational therapy practice.

Describe two ethical dilemmas that may be encountered by OT practitioners providing sensory integration-based services.

Describe a clinical decision-making process that therapists using a sensory integration approach may use to problem solve their ethical concerns

Teresa A. May-Benson,
ScD, OTR/L, FAOTA

Teresa is an expert occupational therapist renowned for her clinical research, mentoring and education related to related to sensory integration theory and intervention, praxis, and social competency. She is currently the owner/CEO of TMB Education, LLC and serves as President and practicing occupational therapist at OTR, Inc, a private occupational therapy practice specializing in sensory integration and social competency for children and adults across the lifespan, located near Philadelphia, PA. Dr. May-Benson has a diverse background as a clinical practitioner, having worked in private and public-school settings as well as private practice. She has authored numerous book chapters and articles on praxis and sensory integration and completed her doctoral dissertation on ideational praxis. Teresa is an education and research faculty member at the SPIRAL Foundation. In her role of educator, she currently serves as adjunct faculty at Widener University and is past faculty at Tufts University and the University of Indianapolis. She has received the Virginia Scardinia Award of Excellence from AOTA for her work in ideational praxis and is the 2023 recipient of the AOTF A. Jean Ayres Award.

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