{"id":45,"date":"2017-12-11T18:26:35","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T18:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.petersons.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/occupational-therapy-degree-undergraduate-options-for-ot\/"},"modified":"2018-06-28T09:37:54","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T15:37:54","slug":"occupational-therapy-degree-undergraduate-options-for-ot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.petersons.com\/blog\/occupational-therapy-degree-undergraduate-options-for-ot\/","title":{"rendered":"Occupational Therapy Degree: Undergraduate Options for OT"},"content":{"rendered":"

Important Note:<\/strong> This article contains information about occupational therapy at the undergraduate level. If you’re interested in occupational therapy at the graduate level, you’ll find\u00a0information\u00a0in\u00a0the graduate edition of our site: occupational therapy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Your occupational therapy degree goals<\/h2>\n

If you are interested in occupational therapy, great! It’s a path that can take you to a long and rewarding career, well worthy of your time and your study. But occupational therapy isn’t a career you can enter into without appropriate preparations and experience. A fully-trained occupational therapist will need a master’s degree in the appropriate subjects, so be prepared to work hard and spend a long time studying if you want to enter the career through that track.<\/p>\n

But if you are interested in pursuing occupational therapy, and you either don’t want to go for your master’s degree, or you’re not yet ready to go for your master’s degree, there are other options to be aware of and pursue. You can either prepare yourself well for eventually earning an occupational therapy master’s degree through tailored undergraduate studies, or you can pursue a degree that would allow you to work as an occupational therapist assistant.<\/p>\n

Tailoring baccalaureate studies for an occupational therapy degree<\/h2>\n

Undergraduate students who are interested in pursuing occupational therapy would do well to study certain subjects in their undergraduate studies.<\/p>\n

Biology, anatomy, psychology, chemistry, and social sciences are all good majors for the aspiring occupational therapist. The information and skills garnered from such studies will almost certainly be of some help when you’re later directly pursuing your master’s level occupational therapy degree.<\/p>\n

What’s more, such studies help\u00a0interested students\u00a0get into graduate programs for occupational therapy. It’s a win-win!<\/p>\n

Occupational therapy assistant colleges<\/h2>\n

Occupational therapist assistants<\/a> work under the supervision of full occupational therapists. Their duties are often a bit more limited than occupational therapists’, but occupational therapist assistants do still work directly with patients, and often get to do the same things that fully-fledged occupational therapists do.<\/p>\n

Occupational therapist assistants can assist occupational therapists in administering therapy or sharing important health education. Assistants will often help create plans for patients, and will teach those patients how best to follow the treatment plans.<\/p>\n

Pursuing an occupational therapy degree from an occupational therapy assistant college is a good way to go after entry-level positions in the field of occupational therapy. That means you can go into occupational therapy and figure out if it’s a subject you would be interested in pursuing more thoroughly. Furthermore, pursuing a degree such as an Associate in Occupational Therapy is a good career idea, as the field of occupational therapy is growing and career prospects in the field in general are quite promising.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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