Bøger udgivet af American Occupational Therapy

Reorganized, expanded, and updated, this new edition gives practical guidance in this preventative occupational therapy programme for independent-living older adults. Twelve modules, including those on longevity, stress, home safety, and navigating health care, illustrate how to incorporate the program into practice. Includes a flash drive with program handouts.

Provides an overview of the occupational therapy process for adults with traumatic brain injury, including definition, epidemiology, stages of recovery, referral, evaluation, and interventions throughout the various recover phases. This publication is designed to help occupational therapists understand the contribution of occupational therapy in treating adults with TBI.

Using an evidence-based perspective and key concepts from the Occupational Therapy Practice Framework, this guideline provides an overview of the occupational therapy process for individuals with autism spectrum disorder. It defines the occupational therapy domain, process, and interventions that occur within the boundaries of acceptable practice.

This text was written by occupational therapy practitioners for occupational therapy practitioners, but it also provides a resource for other stakeholders, such as home health agencies, who wish to know what to expect from occupational therapy practitioners in the home health setting. It borrows extensively from government sources and documents.

This book, updated to reflect the 2015 Code of Ethics, includes new advisory opinions and articles that address ethical trends. Tools and resources provide the foundation of professional values and ethical reasoning to guide complex ethical dilemmas and positively affect those served by occupational therapy.

This new edition of the classic assessment determines the ability to function in basic living skills. Easily administered and appropriate for use with many populations and in many settings, this versatile assessment assists in identifying areas in which a person can perform and where he or she needs assistance.

Task analysis, the process of analysing the dynamic relation among a client, a selected task, and specific contexts, is a critical clinical reasoning tool for evaluating occupational performance. This new edition of this foundational text guides occupational therapy practitioners in using task analysis to understand clients and their ability to perform specific, purposeful activities.

This compilation of the most influential literary works in occupational therapy presents the richness of the profession's heritage while addressing current realities and future directions for practice. A comprehensive anthology of more than 70 recognised classics and landmark recent works, this publication provides essential knowledge about theory and practice.

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.

As sensory integration receives increasing attention from the health care community and the general public, sensory integration scholarship has never been more important. This exciting new book collects the latest research on, debates about, and trends for this timely topic, and is ideal for occupational therapy practitioners, students, researchers, and health care professionals.

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.