Date and Time: Thursday May 22, 2025 - 6-8pm
Chairperson(s): Emily Walker, OT, OTR, Allyson Lewis, OT, OTR, Rosa Colorado, OT, OTR
Location: Zoom - to be sent out day before the event
Title: Ethics in Occupational Therapy: An Analysis of the OT code of ethics and what makes OTPs different from other healthcare professionals
Speaker: Joel M. Roselin, MTS, Special Professor of Law, Maurice A. Deanne School of Law at Hofstra University, Adjunct Lecturer in Bioethics, Columbia University School of Professional Studies
Learning Objectives:
1. Review of the ethical principles that underlie the profession of Occupational Therapy.
2. Explore how to manage ethical conflicts that arise in the practice of Occupational Therapy.
3. Analyze how the ethical principles of Occupational Therapy are similar or different from the codes of other healthcare professions.
Bio/Focus:
Joel Roselin, MTS, has been an ethics educator for more than 25 years, designing and delivering ethics education to healthcare students and professionals in medicine, nursing, allied health professions, and biomedical research. He has taught at several professional schools, including Harvard Medical Schools, Tufts University School of Medicine, NYU School of Medicine, Long Island University School of Health Professions, Columbia University School of Professional Studies, and the Deanne School of Law at Hofstra University.
This session will review the ethical principles that underlie the practice of Occupational Therapy Professionals, explore how those principles apply in real-world situations and how to navigate ethical conflicts in practice. We will also examine how the OT Code of Ethics compares to the codes of ethics of other healthcare professions.
References
1. AOTA 2020 Occupational Therapy Code of Ethics. Am J Occup Ther November/December 2020, Vol. 74(Supplement_3), 7413410005p1–7413410005p13. doi: https://doi.org/10.5014/ajot.2020.74S3006
2. Durocher E, Kinsella EA. Ethical Tensions in Occupational Therapy Practice: Conflicts and Competing Allegiances. Can J Occup Ther. 2021 Sep;88(3):244-253. doi: 10.1177/00084174211021707. PMID: 34595932; PMCID: PMC8899815.
3. Durocher E, Kinsella EA. Ethical Tensions in Occupational Therapy Practice: Conflicts and Competing Allegiances. Can J Occup Ther. 2021 Sep;88(3):244-253. doi: 10.1177/00084174211021707. PMID: 34595932; PMCID: PMC8899815.
Event registration closed at 4pm the day before event, participants must register by Wednesday May 21st again by 4pm.