Occupational Therapy category: 321 books
The Theory and Practice of Vocal Psychotherapy
Songs of the Self
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2009
The voice is the most powerful and widely used instrument in music therapy. This book demonstrates the enormous possibilities for personal change and growth using a new, voice-based model of psychotherapy where the sounds of the voice are expressed, listened to and interpreted in order to access unconscious...
The Weighted Blanket Guide
Everything You Need to Know about Weighted Blankets and Deep Pressure for Autism, Chronic Pain, and Other Conditions
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Providing everything you need to know about the use of weighted blankets to help with sensory integration, improve sleep, ease chronic pain and more, this book includes:
· What a weighted blanket is and how it works
· An exploration of deep pressure and how weight on the body affects the...
Culture in Clinical Care
Strategies for Competence, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Culture in Clinical Care: Strategies for Competence explores theory and practice to define and describe the multidimensional nature of culture and its interaction with an individual’s experience in the development of beliefs, values, and behavior. The newly updated Second Edition examines cultural...
Stroke Rehabilitation - E-Book
A Function-Based Approach
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Learn to confidently manage the growing number of stroke rehabilitation clients with Gillen’s Stroke Rehabilitation: A Function-Based Approach, 4th Edition. Using a holistic and multidisciplinary approach, this text remains the only comprehensive, evidence-based stroke rehabilitation resource for...
Community Mobility
Driving and Transportation Alternatives for Older Persons
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Affordable, easy-to-use, and flexible transportation options are vital to older adults' quality of life. Community Mobility: Driving and Transportation Alternatives for Older Persons provides physical and occupational therapists with recent research findings on older driver assessment, remediation/rehabilitation,...
Children Adapt
A Theory of Sensorimotor-Sensory Development, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 1990
Children Adapt provides a developmental approach to pediatric rehabilitation and a theoretical framework for the evaluation and treatment of children. This extensive revision of the successful first edition now includes stated learning objectives, self-study questions and identification of key points,...
Arts Therapists in Multidisciplinary Settings
Working Together for Better Outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
In a multidisciplinary setting or team, competing perspectives and principles can be challenging to negotiate, but supportive working relationships and effective collaboration can ultimately lead to an enriched experience and innovative outcomes for both professionals and clients.
Drawing on...
Developing Ocular Motor and Visual Perceptual Skills
An Activity Workbook
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2005
With over 20 years of experience, Dr. Kenneth A. Lane has designed Developing Ocular Motor and Visual Perceptual Skills: An Activity Workbook to help occupational therapists, optometrists, and other professionals develop the ocular motor and visual perceptual skills of learning disabled children....
Seating and Wheeled Mobility
A Clinical Resource Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Michelle L. Lange and Jean Minkel have designed this text to support occupational and physical therapists, complex rehabilitation technology suppliers, and even third-party payers who are interested in wheelchair seating and mobility assessment and applications. Seating and Wheeled Mobility provides...
Challenging Stress, Burnout and Rust-Out
Finding Balance in Busy Lives
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
A balanced lifestyle enhances health, happiness and wellbeing. With practical techniques and strategies, this book explores how this balance can be found and how stress and anxiety, which are linked to being overworked and over busy, may be alleviated.
It begins by examining the state of work-life...
Group and Individual Work with Older People
A Practical Guide to Running Successful Activity-based Programmes
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Being active is fundamental to a person's sense of physical and mental wellbeing, and the need to engage in purposeful and meaningful activity does not diminish with age. However, common effects of ageing, such as reduced vision and hearing, arthritis, dementia, and in some cases social isolation,...
by Ian McMillan, Gail Carin-Levy
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
Now in its fourth edition 'Tyldesley and Grieve's Muscles, Nerves and Movement' has established itself as the leading textbook for the study of movement by occupational therapists. The book provides students with a sound understanding of the way in which bones, joints, muscles and nerves allow the...
by Lois E Passi
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Unlike any other text that discusses day hospital programming, A Guide to Creative Group Programming in the Psychiatric Day Hospital contains protocols for the invention of new groups, saving you the time and effort needed to create one yourself. Intended for social workers, psychologists, and occupational...
Neurorehabilitation of the Upper Limb Across the Lifespan
Managing Hypertonicity for Optimal Function
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
A comprehensive guide to managing spastic hypertonia after brain injury and the first full overview of this area
The ideal reference for therapeutic interventions that optimise arm and hand function to support goal achievement
An extensive clinical manual for neurological practice, a key reference for...