Educate professionals capable of contributing to scientific and technological development in the field of human occupation to promote the occupational performance of people and prevent problems that may impede or alter their development; with a responsible attitude of service to the population with disabilities or at risk of acquiring them. It also promotes the integral formation of students as autonomous, responsible and creative persons, so that with an analytical and critical spirit they can choose alternatives aimed at their personal growth and the development of a more just, equitable and democratic society.

• To provide a scientific body of knowledge necessary to: observe the complexity of occupational performance, identify related problems, design and implement strategies at all levels of intervention, solve detected complications and follow up on all actions taken.
• Integrate the concepts of social, natural, philosophical, technological, humanistic, mathematical and artistic sciences to occupational performance.
• Recognize the philosophical, anthropological, economic, cultural, legal, ethical and/or artistic elements of the human, occupational and environmental processes.
• Promote in students the acquisition of principles, skills, roles and aptitudes proper to the performance of the Occupational Therapist.
• To create a critical conscience, ethical commitment and a creative, investigative and humanistic attitude towards the problems of occupational performance.
• Contribute decisively to the transformation of therapeutic practices and more importantly, to the construction of a more just and less violent country. Being able to give continuity to their own training process.
• Take a comprehensive view of the components that are part of occupational performance and understand that the work is always developed in coordination with other professionals and therefore must be willing to collectively discuss and agree on their proposals.
• Use scientific methodology in the solution of problems related to the occupational performance of the person and recognize the advances and implications of technological development in their professional work.
• Integrate research, theory and practice for the development of professional praxis.
• Use the occupation as a means of promoting the competencies of the individual within his or her environment.

Professional Profile

We offer society a critical, ethical and leading professional, with a scientific attitude, who takes ownership of Occupational Performance and intervenes in the factors that facilitate or limit it.

Occupational Profile

The Occupational Therapist graduated from the Universidad del Valle, appropriate to the Occupational Performance, identifies, designs, executes, evaluates, controls and monitors programs and projects that provide solutions to the problems detected in the person, the context and the task at the levels of intervention, through promotion, prevention, habilitation - rehabilitation, equalization of opportunities.

Promotion: Identifies the environments in which people perform. Analyzes the strengths and threats that influence or may influence occupational performance. Uses the environment as a tool to channel efforts and promote healthy behaviors and lifestyles.

It carries out educational actions that guide social groups and individuals on the relationship between occupational performance and quality of life, and presents strategies that make possible its conservation and maintenance (Trujillo, A. 2002).

Prevention: Identifies protective factors and environmental risk factors. Intervenes on those risks that negatively alter the occupational performance of people and develops actions to avoid risks, to reduce those that are in lesser degree and to strengthen the protective factors.

Habilitation and Rehabilitation: It identifies and restores the components (human, occupational and environmental) of the individual that directly affect their occupational actions (self-care, leisure and work) that are limited or restricted by their responsible health condition; through training in occupational skills, restoration of functionality and occupational competence, acquisition of tools to manage in the environment and in the circumstances that negatively affect their occupation and readjustment of the process of interaction with the environment and the internal process of the individual.

Equalization of opportunities: Therapeutic actions aimed at developing, restoring or compensating the capacities and abilities of people who, due to traumas, deficiencies, disabilities or social, physical and attitudinal barriers, present restrictions for the autonomous and satisfactory performance of their life plan (Trujillo, A. 2002).

It enables occupational behaviors, performing actions in the environment to minimize threats and increase opportunities and uses compensatory strategies for people's occupational performance.

Occupational Forecasting:Identifies the extent to which the person can be reached through his performance, always in the search for his realization, based on the diagnosis made.

 Curricular Structure of the Occupational Therapy Academic Program. (Spanish)