Bøger af Catana Brown

"Occupational Therapy for Mental Health serves as the comprehensive textbook for occupational therapy practice focused on mental health. More importantly, this third edition presents a call to action to recognize that the OT process and all OT practitioners are essential to the mental and behavioral health workforce, regardless of practice setting. This edition maintains its organizational structure based on the Person-Environment-Occupation Model and continues to present material so students and faculty can find practical information on theories, evidence, assessments, and interventions that are crucial to effective OT practice. It strongly appreciates the lived experience and recovery-oriented perspective that greatly benefits all people with challenges, illness, environmental barriers, and disease that impact occupational engagement and satisfaction"--

Put the evidence to work for your clients. Become an effective evidence-based practitioner. >Five Stars! Great Book!"This is an exceptional book for not only OT students but other students in other health profession disciplines as well!"--Online Reviewer Updated! Current evidence and the policies and practices of occupational therapy todayExpanded! Statistics coverage in three chapters: Descriptive Statistics: What They Tell You and How to Apply Them in Practice, Inferential Statistics: Tests of Difference, and Inferential Statistics for Relationship QuestionsNew & Expanded! Qualitative research coverage in two chapters: Qualitative Designs: Exploring the Lived Experience and a new chapter, Trustworthiness of Qualitative StudiesNew! Introduction of the critically appraised paper (CAP) as a concept with a new feature that walks students through completing oneGuiding principle of 'Consuming vs. Conducting' researchHow to write a research question that addresses a relevant practice problem and then how to find, read, and apply evidence to address the questionExplanations of the different types of research and the methods and measurements used in each type, including their advantages and disadvantages.'From the Evidence," excerpts with real data, abstracts, figures and tables from published research and coverage of how to decipher their meaning and apply them in practice"Evidence in the Real World," personal narratives from health professionals who demonstrate using evidence in their practice"Understanding Statistics" boxesWorktext format with "Exercises" that encourage students to apply new concepts in the moment."Review Questions" at the end of each chapterAnswers to questions in the worktext at the end of each chapter

A person-centered, recovery-oriented, and occupation-based approach to mental health across the lifespan. This revised text continues to embrace the confluence of person, environment, and occupation in mental health as its organizing theoretical model, emphasizing the lived experience of mental illness and recovery.