Welcome to maintaining occupational balance during uncertain times: The importance of ‘Roles, Routines and Responsibilities’.
Specialist occupational therapists designed this course. The Covid-19 pandemic sparked the creation of this course due to the impact that it had on people’s lives. However, the course can relate to a range of experiences.
The course focuses on tips to maintain occupational balance during uncertain times. It will guide you through the landscape of how an understanding of occupation (what it means and what are the key concepts) and how you can refine or learn new skills/knowledge as applied to your life right now. This will help your ability to better achieve occupational balance, make positive changes, and meet your needs and the needs of people around you.
This course discusses the concepts that underpin the concept of ‘occupation’ and how they link to wellbeing. This knowledge will help you to:
As a brief introduction, occupations refer to the things you do each day; the ‘Roles, Routines and Responsibilities’ you engage in or assume. Our wellbeing and how we see ourselves is closely linked to the things we do on a daily basis. How we spend our time and the activities we engage in provide us with a sense of meaning, purpose, identity, belonging and satisfaction.
The course will also take you through some practical or reflective questions. You may wish to make your own notes.
This course will take approximately 1 hour to complete but this timing will depend on how fast you read and how long you spend on the suggested activities and reflective questions. You do not need to complete the whole course in one go. If you leave and come back to the course material it will remember where you got up to.
If you would like to get a certificate for this course, you must mark each page complete. You can do this by pressing the ‘mark complete’ button at the bottom of each page.
Course updated: March 2025