Full Description
Pocket Guide to Intervention in Occupational Therapy, Second Edition builds upon the strengths of the first edition as a useful quick reference of occupational therapy terms and interventions regarding specific diagnoses and conditions.
Occupational therapy is an evidence-based health care profession that uses scientifically based research to justify clinical practice. Interventions in hospitals, clinics, and community and school settings continue to evolve based on scientific evidence. These interventions are intended to prevent injury and maintain or improve client function.
Pocket Guide to Intervention in Occupational Therapy, Second Edition by Dr. Franklin Stein and Dr. Kristine Haertl is organized around the major conditions that occupational therapists encounter in their everyday practice. These include physical, psychosocial, cognitive, geriatric, and pediatric diagnoses. Intervention guidelines are outlined for the major disabilities. In addition, there are brief descriptions of the intervention techniques that therapists use and definitions of terms that are relevant to interventions.
Intervention techniques encompass the following:
Non-medical techniques such as client health education or counseling
Instruction in activities of daily living, modifying of environment such as in ergonomics
Teaching and demonstrating arts and crafts as therapeutic activities
Providing sensory stimulating activities especially for children
The appendices include an outline of essential skills for occupational therapists, general developmental guidelines, an overview of muscles and movements, orthotic devices, tables of muscles, average range of motion measurements, prime movers for upper and selected lower extremity motions, and substitutions for muscle contractions.
Pocket Guide to Intervention in Occupational Therapy, Second Edition is based on the latest scientific evidence garnered from recent research studies, meta-analyses, scoping reviews, occupational therapy textbooks and their own wide experiences as a clinician, professor and researcher.
Contents
Dedication Acknowledgments About the AuthorsPrefaceMajor Terms and InterventionsAlzheimer's DiseaseAmputationAmyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)Anorexia NervosaAntisocial Personality DisorderAnxiety DisordersAphasiaAttention Deficit Disorder (ADD)/Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)AutismBipolar DisorderBlindnessBorderline Personality DisorderBurnsCancerCardiac Disease/Cardiac DysfunctionCarpal Tunnel SyndromeCerebral Palsy (CP)Cerebrovascular Accident (CVA)Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)Cognitive-Perceptual DeficitsConduct DisordersDepressionDown SyndromeDuchenne Muscular DystrophyEdemaGuillain-Barré SyndromeHand InjuriesLearning Disability/Specific Learning DisorderLow Back Pain (LBP)Motor Control Multiple Sclerosis (MS)Myasthenia GravisOsteoarthritisParkinson's DiseasePost-Polio SyndromeRheumatoid ArthritisSchizophreniaSensory DeficitsSpinal Cord InjuryTraumatic Brain InjuryWeakness?ReferencesAppendix A: Ten Essential Clinical Skills for Occupational TherapistsAppendix B: Commonly Used Medical AbbreviationsAppendix C: Developmental Milestones: Birth to 5 YearsAppendix D: Orthotics and Orthoses Exoskeletal or External Devices to Limit or Assist Motion in Joints of BodyAppendix E: Table of MusclesAppendix F: Average Range of Motion MeasurementsAppendix G: Prime Movers for Upper and Selected Lower Extremity MotionsAppendix H: Substitutions for Muscle ContractionAppendix I: Health Organization Web Resources
