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

Build a Rewarding Career by Helping Those in Need

Get started in a career that has a future and is financially rewarding. Opportunities in Occupational Therapy Careers provides you with a complete overview of the job possibilities, salary figures, and experience required to enter the field of occupational therapy.

This career-boosting book will help you:

• Determine the specialty that's right for you, from therapy to research to education
• Acquire in-depth knowledge of the occupational therapy industry
• Find out what kind of salary you can...

Everything the physical therapists needs to know about the documentation process in one clear, concise, easy-to-follow text

Effective Documentation for Physical Therapy Professionals is your best choice for gaining a solid understanding of the entire physical therapy documentation process. There is no faster or easier way to learn the when, what, and how of physical therapy documentation than this trusted guide. The second edition has been updated to include the most recent professional guidelines, codes, and methodologies and covers timely subjects such as Medicare,...

Master the assistive strategies you need to make confident clinical decisions and help improve the quality of life for people with disabilities with this new essentials text. Based on the Human Activity Assistive Technology (HAAT) model developed by Dr. Cook, the book provides the most important coverage of the devices, services, and practices that comprise assistive technology and focuses on the relationship between the human user and the assisted activity within specific contexts. Case studies, illustrations of assistive devices, review questions, and well-developed learning objectives...

This book provides a contextual account of the first anarchist theory of war and peace, and sheds new light on our contemporary understandings of anarchy in International Relations. Although anarchy is arguably the core concept of the discipline of international relations, scholarship has largely ignored the insights of the first anarchist, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon. Proudhon's anarchism was a critique of the projects of national unification, universal dominion, republican statism and the providentialism at the heart of enlightenment social theory. While his break with the key tropes of...

Do you support a child or adult with sensory perceptual issues or cognitive impairment?

For people with challenging sensory and cognitive conditions, everyday life can become so unpredictable and chaotic that over time, lack of engagement can often lead to a state of learned helplessness. In this insightful text, Paul Pagliano shows how learned helplessness can be transformed into learned optimism through multisensory stimulation, and explains how a programme of support can be designed and modulated to match the person s needs, interests and abilities. Full of practical, easy to...

This text provides an overview of vocational rehabilitation (VR) practice, making it the perfect companion for students and practitioners with an interest in supporting people back to work and improving their sense of health and well-being.

The book is divided into three parts: the first covers the policy context of VR in the UK, defining VR, outlining the development of national standards in the sector, and looking at issues such as the economy and worklessness, and the legal background. The second part examines models of VR practice and relevant standards. It explores the nature...

This book will help licensed professional counselors incorporate Equine Assisted Counseling (EAC) into their practices, even those who have little prior experience working with horses. It provides a strong research foundation for understanding the efficacy of equine assisted interventions and the potentially powerful impact that a horse can have in creating a new counseling dynamic. Chapters address using horses to help clients dealing with various traumas and abuse, anxiety, depression, atypical behaviors, and social skills and communication issues. Additionally, a chapter by the...

The book explores the nature of cancer and challenges faced by occupational therapists in oncology and palliative care. It discusses the range of occupational therapy intervention in symptom control, anxiety management and relaxation, and the management of breathlessness and fatigue.

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This book is the first to use psychoanalysis as a basis for exploring how occupational therapists do their work, and it incorporates a new conceptual model to guide practice. The authors emphasize the role of the unconscious in all that people do and are, and argue that activities (or occupations) are simultaneously real (i.e. tangible) and symbolic. Ideal for academic and clinical occupational therapists, this book will also appeal to psychotherapists.

The companion text to Occupational Therapy without Borders - Volume 1: learning from the spirit of survivors

In this landmark text writers from around the world discuss a plurality of occupation-based approaches that explicitly acknowledge the full potential of the art and science of occupational therapy. The profession is presented as a political possibilities-based practice, concerned with what matters most to people in real life contexts, generating practice-based evidence to complement evidence-based practice. As these writers demonstrate, occupational therapies...

Now fully revised and updated, Dr. Barbara Gladson's Pharmacology for Rehabilitation Professionals, 2nd Edition, remains your best resource for understanding how various drugs affect patients during therapeutic exercise and rehabilitation. Using case studies and engaging activities, it helps you apply essential pharmacology information directly to rehabilitation practice. New chapters, a new reader-friendly design, new artwork, and more enhance the text and bring you up to date with both basic pharmacologic principles as well as the mechanism of action and side effects of drugs...

This book will provide occupational therapists with the foundations for effective occupational therapy in stroke...

• 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 students and qualified practitioners, and a valuable resource for all occupational therapists and physiotherapists working with brain-injured clients

Wissen, das hilft

.erhalt man durch Erfahrung und durch das strukturierte Vorgehen des evidenzbasierten Arbeitens. Doch bei der Leistungsabrechnung durch Kostentrager zahlen vor allem die wissenschaftlichen Nachweise uber die Wirksamkeit therapeutischer Massnahmen.

Evidenzbasiertes Arbeiten in der Physio- und Ergotherapie fuhrt Studierende und praktizierende Therapeuten Schritt fur Schritt durch den Forschungsdschungel von der reflektierten Praxis uber die systematische Beobachtung in die evidenzbasierte Praxis (EBP). Der Leser des Buches erfahrt, wie man geeignete...