Occupational therapy

Balancing practical exercises and case studies, this book equips practitioners, students and academics with guidance for exploring the process of making theatre from personal stories.

This book is a practical resource designed for clinicians, researchers, and advanced students who wish to learn about single-case research designs.

Fairy tales are part of our culture and history.

Drawing is a language, projected by children and adults, reflecting their joy and pain.

Originally published in 1990.

The Art of Art Therapy is written primarily to help art therapists define and then refine a way of thinking about their work.

Considering the latest advances and developments in the arena of digital media, this book explores current materials, methods and applications of digital technology in art therapy.

This book addresses the needs of children experiencing the hospitalization or death of a caregiver or loved one to comprehend and cope with tragedy with the assistance creative non-fictions and dramatic play.

Rheumatology Practice in Occupational Therapy: Promoting Lifestyle Management is a valuable new handbook focusing on rheumatology, a core area of occupational therapy practice.

Massage techniques are widely and effectively used in the treatment of autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) to address sensory issues, motor problems and touch receptivity.

This book gathers revised selected papers from the 3rd International Workshop on Gerontechnology, IWoG 2020, held on October 5-6, 2020, in Evora, Portugal.

The value of music therapy in neurological rehabilitation is increasingly recognised and this practical manual provides comprehensive guidance for clinicians on the application of music therapy methods in neurorehabilitation.

This comprehensive book brings together the voices of international art therapists with diverse backgrounds and experiences and asks them to consider the role of postmodernism in their understanding of art therapy.

Drawing on her extensive experience in expressive arts therapy, Daria Halprin presents a unique approach to healing through movement and art.

Living with loss: From grief to wellbeing offers the latest research on adapting to and making sense of bereavement and non-death losses.

This book describes validated outcome measures for the international Spinal Cord Injury population.

Multicultural Play Therapy fills a wide gap in the play therapy literature.

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility.

Breath in Action looks at the significance of breath to human life - not just the simple fact that if we stop breathing, we die, but also the more subtle ways in which our breath interacts with our voice and our being.

This new edition of Nursing Care: An Essential Guide for Nurses and Healthcare Workers in Primary and Secondary Care is a comprehensive introductory textbook to nursing care for pre-registration nursing students and nursing associate students in the UK, and is relevant to other allied health students.

CanMEDS in der GesundheitsversorgungFachliche Expertise, klinische Kompetenz und Outcome-Orientierung sind die Zielvorgaben für die Expert*innen der Gesundheitsberufe, um eine qualitativ hohe Gesundheitsversorgung im interdisziplinären Team sicher zu stellen.

By creating a therapeutic outlet for self-expression and processing trauma, art therapy can play a powerful role in assisting people with a brain injury or neurological condition to adjust to living with altered abilities and ways of thinking.

This book explores the multitude of thoughts, theories, opinions, methods, and approaches to play therapy in order to highlight the unity and diversity of theory and perspective in the field.

The Handbook of Therapeutic Storytelling enables people in the healing professions to utilise storytelling, pictures and metaphors as interventions to help their patients.

This work demonstrates that hand and wrist rehabilitation calls for precise anatomical, biomechanical, and physiological expertise, as well as mastery of manual techniques and targeted physiotherapy.

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility.

This book presents a comprehensive approach to treating dysphagia that has been successfully applied in actual rehabilitation settings.

There is nothing prescriptive about Acceptance and Commitment Therapy or Art Therapy.

Personal Process in Child-Centred Play Therapy provides a very specific exploration of the play therapy process from the personal perspective of the play therapist.

Written by internationally renowned equine-assisted mental health professionals, this edited collection teaches counselors how to design and implement equine-assisted mental health interventions for different populations and various challenges.

The PNF approach, presented in a fully illustrated hands-on guide, including 650 photosFocus on practical aspects of patient evaluation and treatment ICF and Motor Learning and how these concepts are applied in PNF Provides a systematic and easily accessible guide to learning and understanding PNF as a practical tool and using it to full effect in patient treatmentNew for this edition: new fully-color textbook design for more user-friendly learning experience; fully revised introductory chapter on the PNF basics, now including discussion and demonstration of ICF and Motor Learning aspects in detailed case study; throughout chapters, new additional case studies that help visualize the application of PNF techniques in promoting the patients' everyday-life motor skills on activity and participation levels.

Little research has explored the everyday, simple and long-term experience of maternal holding, particularly after the first year of a child's life.

This unique book is the first of two volumes that describe a new, transpersonal model for therapeutic work on dreams.

Internationally recognised practitioners of the psychodramatic method discuss the theory and practice of psychodrama since Moreno's death.

Mental health and legal professionals struggle daily with complex challenges presented by allegations that a parent has sexually abused a child.

Recent research has shown that art therapy can be particularly effective for children with autism and related communication disorders.

From leading expert Eliana Gil, this book provides child clinicians with essential knowledge and tools for evaluating and working with posttraumatic play.

Relating the innovative ways in which assistants and collaborators can become an integral part of a course of music therapy, this book explores how the involvement of a diverse range of individuals, such as family members, learning support assistants, caregivers and medical staff, can contribute to successful sessions.

This book explores postmodern choreographic engagements of pregnant bodies in the US over the last 70 years.

This comprehensive volume provides balanced and easily readable chapters on contemporary topics around discourse production in patients with neurogenic disorders.

Family-Centred Assessment and Intervention in Pediatric Rehabilitation analyzes the effectiveness of Family-Centred Services (FCS) for children with disabilities or chronic illnesses.

Occupational Therapy and Stroke guides newly qualified occupational therapists (and those new to the field of stroke management) through the complexities of treating people following stroke.

Individuals with disabilities are often "e;desexualized"e; in our society, yet they have the same need for intimacy, self-worth, and social belonging as people without disabilities.

A vivid exploration of working with autistic children using empowering techniques from a range of creative therapies.

Adolescent Art Therapy is an attempt to delineate the issues and techniques that are particular to the practice of art psychotherapy with an adolescent population.

Advanced Sandtray Therapy deepens mental health professionals' abilities to understand and apply sandtray therapy.

This practical book presents the latest and most effective occupational therapy methods and theories designed for treating patients with decreased hand function.