Kategoria BISAC: Medical >> Allied Health Services - Occupational Therapy

In the past twenty-five years, the practice of play therapy has increased exponentially in America and throughout the world. This handbook brings together an international group of scholars and therapists to address a wide variety of topics relevant to the rapidly expanding field of play therapy. The primary goal of the handbook is to provide play therapists with practical information they can put into immediate use in their clinical work with children and adolescents. Thus the focus is on advances in assessment, theory, research, and practice that have universal appeal, rather than on...

Therapeuten mussen sich als Selbstandige oder Angestellte oft mit rechtlichen Fragen auseinandersetzen. Damit die benotigten Informationen nicht aus verschiedenen Quellen zusammengesucht werden mussen, beantwortet der Band alle relevanten Fragen zum Arbeitsrecht, zur Praxisgrundung, Kooperationen, Krankenkassen, Mietvertrag, Patientenrechte und pflichten, Praxiskauf/-verkauf, Privatpatienten, Steuerrecht sowie Werbung/Marketing. Zu jedem Thema: Fallbeispiele, Merksatze, Checklisten sowie Hinweise zu weiterfuhrender Literatur und Web-Adressen."

Therapeutic Recreation Leadership and Programming will help students learn the essential aspects of professional practice while developing a leadership mind-set. The book focuses on the day-to-day responsibilities of the therapeutic recreation specialist (TRS) while integrating ethical considerations into each aspect of the job. Readers will learn how to perform the daily work of a TRS while maintaining the highest ethical standards of the profession. The book details

- the principles, theories, and codes of ethics that will form the foundation of specialists'...

Features 80 adaptable and photocopiable games for uses with older people, as well as individuals or groups of all ages. This handbook includes games that can be used as part of a social activities programme, to exercise memory skills or as the prelude to discussion, so that individuals can share difficulties and explore methods of aiding memory.

The treatment and reintegration of adults with brain damage sustained as a result of illness or accident is one of the most important and challenging tasks in the field of rehabilitation. This is not only due to the complexity of the lost functions, but also because stroke is the most frequent cause of severe disability in our society. Approx- imately 25% of all severely disabled persons are hemiplegics (Nichols 1976). Brain damage caused by vascular disease is a tremendous problem for any population and civilization. Causes and effects, with the resulting symptoms, vary so widely that the...

Das Standardwerk fur Therapeuten behandelt Erkrankungen und Verletzungen der Hande. Fur die 2. Auflage wurden die Inhalte komplett uberarbeitet, aktualisiert und erweitert, so dass das Werk nun drei Bande umfasst. In Band 3 behandelt die Autorin die Themen manuelle Therapie, physikalische Manahmen sowie Schienen. Sie hat u. a. Abschnitte zu physiotherapeutischen Therapieansatzen inklusive detaillierter Anleitungen (funktioneller Befund, manuelle Therapie, Arm-Schulterbehandlung, Uberlastungssyndrome) erganzt.

Das Salutogenese-Prinzip umfasst "alles, was gesund erhalt." Die Basis der Behandlung:

- Der Patient bestimmt selbst die ihm wichtigen Behandlungsziele.

- Der Therapeut unterstutzt ihn professionell, um diese Ziele zu erreichen.

Das Buch zeigt Ihnen am Therapiebeispiel bei Gehproblemen konkret, wie Sie dieses neuartige Behandlungskonzept in der Praxis umsetzen.

Die Pluspunkte:

- Erste Praxis-Anleitung fur die therapeutische Arbeit

- Anschaulich durch drei Patientengeschichten

- Ausfuhrlich mit Fotos...

Der "Bose" uberzeugt vor allem durch seine klare didaktische Gestaltung, seine prazise und gut verstandliche Sprache sowie viele Schemata und Abbildungen. Er hat sich als Lehrbuch sowohl in der Kranken- als auch Altenpflegeausbildung bestens bewahrt. Vollstandig uberarbeitet wurden die Kapitel "Erkrankungen der Niere, der ableitenden Harnwege und des Geschlechtsapparates" und "Erkrankungen der Drusen mit innerer Sekretion." Neu aufgenommen wurden gynakologische Erkrankungen. Mit seinem neuen Umschlag wurde er auch ausserlich an das moderne "Outfit" der Krankenpflegebucher angepasst."

In a clear and accessible presentation, Occupational Physiology focuses on important issues in the modern working world. Exploring major public health problems-such as musculoskeletal disorders and stress-this book explains connections between work, well-being, and health based on up-to-date research in the field. It provides useful methods for risk assessment and guidelines on arranging a good working life from the perspective of the working individual, the company, and society as a whole.

The book focuses on common, stressful situations in different professions....

Speaking from a breadth of disciplines, themes, and cultural perspective, the eight essays in this collection offer a wide-ranging view on the ways theater can be employed in the service of public health.
The projects examined include activist theater companies, "theater of survival" dealing with issues like AIDS and peer violence, the use of theater in therapy and in the training of therapists, and an in-depth look at the issues and methods driving any theater seeking to produce a healthy change.
The ten contributors include theater practitioners; therapists; and teachers,...

This collection of essays presents four challenges: how the changing nature of work is causing a rise in disability; prevention; rehabilitation; and the difficulty of reconciling fairness and sustainability in a competitive era. It explores a range of policy options for dealing with this situation.

Originator, innovator, activist and educator, Emeritus Professor Michael Edwards was central to the international evolution of art therapy. These previously unpublished papers are the most substantial written record of his thinking. Highly praised by leading figures in art psychotherapy, Professor Shaun McNiff wrote '...the ideas have wings that carry the reader inside to the marrow of art... The book will appeal to artists looking for a threshold into the arts in therapy'. Rejection of reductionism and fundamentalism made Edwards a champion of soul, a challenger of simple mindedness. Widely...

Contemporary Occupational Health Psychology: Global Perspectives on Research and Practice, Volume 2 continues a definitive reference series published in association with the European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology (EAOHP) and the Society for Occupational Health Psychology (SOHP). The series summarizes state-of-the-art research and practice in the field of occupational health psychology.

• Volume 2 of the most important and influential research series in the rapidly growing field of occupational health psychology
• Presents state-of-the-art research...

Presents research in the study of non-pharmacological treatment proposed in dementia care. In this title, topics discussed include music therapy in dementia; predictors of effective support for carers of persons with dementia; and, computer-assisted spaced retrieval training of faces and names for persons with dementia.

Equine Assisted Activities for Healing From Abuse by Others, Loss of Others & Loss of Self Psychotherapists and horse enthusiasts Joy Nussen & Leslie Becker bring their experiences to create this manual for others in the mental health industry looking for innovative strategies incorporating horses.

You are never going to be perfect. I am never going to be perfect. Perfection is not attainable. Happiness is always transient. Makes you want to give up already. Then, as if life isn't difficult enough, neuroscience reveals our brains are wired from birth toward negative thinking. Negative thinking helps us expect and see danger because we know it's out there, which aids our survival. Unfortunately, negative thinking also makes us miserable; but, we do it so often, we are experts in manufacturing our self created misery. You know this: If you do something often enough, you're going to get...

An der Alanus Hochschule Alfter wurde im November 2008 ein Forschungssymposion -Forschungswege in der Eurythmietherapie- veranstaltet. In den vergangenen Jahren sind eine Reihe von Forschungsarbeiten in der Eurythmietherapie mit unterschiedlichen Methoden geleistet worden. Es wurde die Frage gestellt, welche Forschungsmethoden der Eurythmietherapie angemessen sind und wie die verschiedenen Ansatze miteinander verbunden werden konnen. Es war das Anliegen dieses Symposiums, diese unterschiedlichen Wege zu betrachten und methodische Grundlagen anzudenken, die die Forschungsziele bundeln konnen....

On February 19th, 2011, Frank Hegyis daughter noticed him staring fixedly at his newspaper, with a vacant look in his eyes. What she was witnessing was the sudden impact of a cerebral stroke that would change his life forever.

In a moment, Hegyi was transformed from a thriving academician, professional and family man to a patient struggling first just to live, then to regain the basic capacities of movement and language that his wife had been told by doctors would never return.

This is the story of Hegyis battle to overcome the debilitating effects of his stroke. But it is not a book just...