Bøger udgivet af American Occupational Therapy

Discusses the etiology, epidemiology, and incidence of multiple sclerosis, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, and transverse myelitis to provide background information for readers to understand how each disease can lead to disability and thus the need for occupational therapy services.

Nearly 600 instruments are reviewed in this new edition of occupational therapy's classic publication, including many developed by occupational therapists. An international team of academicians, clinicians, researchers, and advanced-degree candidates working in various practice arenas collaborated on this update. The assessment profiles will be useful to clinicians, students, and educators.

Updates ideas that are foundational to the occupational therapy profession and that support clinical reasoning and practice. Chapters reflect a major change in the profession, as occupational therapy practitioners have begun endorsing the term occupation and using the terms activities and purposeful activities less frequently.

Broad in scope, Adults With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities focuses on facilitating quality of life and intervening in effective, evidence-based ways with people with IDD, including those with ASD, adolescents transitioning to adulthood, aging adults, and people with dual diagnoses.

Offers a general participation assessment across five levels of participation and cooperation and the specific behaviours that make up these five levels. The manual details instructions on how to administer the Social Profile, describes how the assessment was developed, and summarized research to support its use. Also included are 14 case studies that illustrate how the Social Profile can be used.

Offers expert guidance for occupational therapy's work in the ever-developing practice area of driving and community mobility. Topics include psychosocial considerations, ethics, cognition, vision, evaluation, adaptive equipment, older drivers, and youth with special needs. A flash drive containing client resources, fact sheets, guides, assessments, articles, and Web resources is included.

The transition from academic work to a clinical focus that occurs during Level II fieldwork can be both exciting and challenging. This combination handbook and self-organiser contains a review of a variety of topics such as time management, teamwork, and occupational therapy practice issues as they relate to fieldwork success.

Presents a flexible and useful measure of occupation that enables occupational therapy practitioners to help clients describe their instrumental, leisure, and social activities. Using the ACS will give clinicians the occupational history and information they need to help clients build routines of meaningful and healthy activities.

Provides authoritative, accurate information and resources about occupational therapy practice in schools, preschools, early intervention, and other settings such as child care. This book is essential for occupational therapists and occupational therapy assistants (including educators and students) and also is useful for parents, teachers, administrators, policymakers, and child advocates.