Uncovers a different way to understand health by exploring the physical, social, mental, environmental, and spiritual dimensions that lead to or result from occupation. This book is useful for clinicians and students of occupational therapy, as well as other professionals working in public health.

Lets you master the assistive strategies that you need to make confident clinical decisions and help improve the quality of life for people with disabilities. This text discusses a broad range of devices, services, and practices that comprise assistive technology.

A photocopiable resource that offers guidance and materials to aid those developing multisensory environments - artificially engineered spaces that encourage relaxation, social skills and learning by stimulating the five senses. It explains the theory underlying multisensory environments and describes the different types.

Offers students with a foundation on the emerging perspectives of occupation. This book fosters an understanding of where the profession is as well as where the various scholars are headed with their unique perspectives.

Aims to summarises all the knowledge on the management of the upper limb in tetraplegics. This book gives coverage of the process of patient evaluation, outlines spinal cord injuries in relation to the upper limb, and reviews both surgical and non-surgical rehabilitation in many types of patient, from the very weak to the strong.

Serves as a tool for therapists working with people with communication difficulties. This edition is a manual of over 50 group exercises for use when working with groups to help those taking part to overcome problems with interpersonal communication. It explains the use of exercises in the context of the developments in psychiatric medicine.

Provides information needed to know about the physical dysfunction intervention process. This book contains chapters which focus on the keys to implementing various occupational therapy interventions and also provide information on applying specific terms to clinical practice.

Growing numbers of therapists are employing the healing powers of play in their sessions with adults. This comprehensive book provides all of the available theory and clinical strategies for using play therapy with adults.

Containing a chapter on paediatrics, this provides the reader with both the theoretical underpinnings of client-centred practice, as well as guidance on the practical application of this approach.

A sequel to Duncan: Foundations for Practice in Occupational Therapy, 4e , this book provides a comprehensive guide to the practice applications of the theory base. It covers the essential skills for effective occupational therapy practice: clinical skills, management and leadership skills, and evidence-based and research skills, and thinking.

This work comprises a collection of critical essays on current concepts in occupational therapy. The essays do not constitute a definitive account of the current state of thinking, but are intended to stimulate interest in academic debate and to provoke critical response.

Translates the rhetoric of practice into real clinical settings. This title allows students and practitioners to engage readily with best practice. It provides worked examples in case study format. It covers a range of client groups and settings.

Presents a comprehensive overview of occupational therapy history and theory, the occupational therapy process and practice, evaluation and intervention in the occupational performance areas, performance skills and client factors, implementation of intervention, and intervention applications.

Deals with the little pieces of occupation which make up life's real situations and experiences and form a basis for therapy.

Calls on occupational therapists to realize the profession's social vision of a more just society where disability, old age, and other marginalizing conditions and experiences are addressed by involving people in helping themselves to (re)gain the capacity and power to construct their own destinies through their participation in daily life.

Analyzing the conceptual (theoretical) and practice (application) models, this title presents the major ideas which form the core knowledge, skills, and attitudes of the occupational therapy profession. It presents the models along with a historical background of the major concepts, and case studies.

Provides discussion of qualitative research and potential role for qualitative research in enhancing both the theoretical bases of occupational and physical therapy and the knowledge bases that inform evidence-based practice. This book draws examples from research undertaken by physical therapists and occupational therapists.