Occupational therapy

The Social Dream-Drawing Workshop is a pioneering, practical guide for professionals who work with people going through major life transitions, such as career change, relocation or bereavement.

This accessible book is full of play-based activities to support child development.

The importance of therapeutic play in helping children recover from adversity has long been recognized.

Clinical Reasoning in Occupational Therapy is a key text for occupational therapy students and practitioners.

In this book, Fleet provides the first comprehensive guide to implementing sand-tray therapy within a pluralistic framework.

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.

Art Therapy Research is a clear and intuitive guide for educators, students, and practitioners on the procedures for conducting art therapy research.

Helping children and adolescents who have experienced trauma to feel safe and confident enough to talk, let alone engage in therapeutic work, can be full of challenges - for children and for adults.

Providing people with dementia with opportunities to engage in creative activity can play a crucial role in maintaining and enhancing communication, and in reinforcing personhood and identity.

Transformation through Journal Writing is a grounded guide to self reflection through journaling for those in the helping professions.

Foundations of Art Therapy Supervision serves as a reference guide for art therapists who have found themselves in supervisor roles without prior training and supervisees hoping to learn what to expect from the supervision relationship, and illustrates how to receive and provide clinical art therapy supervision.

Written specifically for athletic trainers by athletic trainers, the updated Third Edition of Clinical Pathology for Athletic Trainers: Recognizing Systemic Disease emphasizes practical knowledge; development of clinical skills, including evaluation and treatment; and development of clinical decision-making abilities.

This innovative book uses a case-based approach to discuss mistakes made in the practice of clinical neuropsychology to form a helpful tool in the training of early career clinicians.

This book is the first critical analysis of the key principles and practices informing the movement training of actors in the modern era.

First Published in 2012.

Speech and language impairments are one of the most challenging features of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD).

Whilst preparing for his travel adventures into a world he had yet to explore, Christopher Yeoh was involved in a road traffic accident and experienced something few others would be "e;privileged"e; to witness.

In a very concise and extremely well organized manner Orthopedic Traumatology discusses the important principles underlying the management of orthopedic trauma, which has undergone significant changes recently.

Political theatre, like any kind of political action, can only be judged in relation to the political moment in which it tries to intervene.

In the past the therapy professions concentrated on developing their practice base while social scientists examined the relationships between the practioners and the field of medicine.

This edited collection examines the potential of dance training for developing socially engaged individuals capable of forging ethical human relations for an ever-changing world and in turn frames dance as a fundamental part of human experience.

This book contributes to a larger global call to radically re-create ourselves-to transform our fear and alienation from art, Nature, and ourselves.

This book realistically describes the experiences of people living with schizophrenia and their families, from the detection of the first symptoms until the development of treatments and strategies to cope with this unique human condition.

Environmental Arts Therapy: The Wild Frontiers of the Heart describes what happens when we take the creative arts therapies and the people whom we work with out of doors in order to provide safe, structured and accompanied creative therapeutic healing experiences.

Carola Nielinger-Vakil examines selected works by Nono in the historical context of Italy and Germany after 1945.

Alltägliches Handeln ermöglichen: die Leitlinien der Ergotherapie als Instrumente für Praxis, Lehre und Wissenschaft Praxis verbessern, Versorgungsqualität steigern, Kosten sparen und Zufriedenheit der Klienten erhöhen: Die Anforderungen an die therapeutischen Gesundheitsfachberufe sind hoch.

Das "Occupational Therapy Practice Framework: Domain and Process" (OTPF) beschreibt und erklärt systematisch die zentralen Konzepte ergotherapeutischer Praxis.

Counseling at the Beginning is a thorough, practice-based guide for counselors who serve the mental health needs of very young children and their families.

This innovative volume introduces Twinley's concept of 'The Dark Side of Occupation'.

Developmental Play Assessment for Practitioners (DPA-P) Guidebook and Training Website: Project Play offers a comprehensive assessment of naturally occurring play activities for evaluating young children's developmental progress accurately, so that useful interventions can take place as early as possible.

Art-based activities can develop resilience and self-esteem, enabling children in need to cope better with ongoing stress and loss.

The innovative drama therapy programme develops social skills in children and teens on the autism spectrum by looking to the mirror neuron system as the key to social connection and interaction.

Music therapy as an intervention in medical, educational and many other environments has a rich and diverse history of methods, approaches and models.

This is a practical guide for Occupational Therapists and others who provide services to people who have Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

Errrorless learning is one of the most studied principles in neurorehabilitation.

For decades, art therapy has proved to be a practical treatment for veterans and other military populations suffering from trauma.

The fascinating and exciting evidence in this book has tremendous appeal.

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

Bringing together a wide range of European thought on music therapy practice, this book provides a deeper insight into the aspects of the therapeutic process which are enabled by music.

This book introduces the occupational therapist to the practice of vocational rehabilitation.

'If you want to be more present, more reactive and have more fun - this book is for you' SARA PASCOE'Funny, insightful and inspiring' RACHEL PARRIS'Essential reading for anyone wanting to do life, but better' CARIAD LLOYD'A wonderfully witty, charmingly personal guide to the art of improvisation for the stage & life' DEBORAH FRANCES WHITEAn improviser's guide to embracing whatever life throws at you!

This collection of insightful essays gives teachers' perspectives on the role of space and presence in teaching performance.

For occupational therapists who want to incorporate health promotion or prevention into their practices, here is a thought-provoking new volume.

Inclusive Arts Practice and Research interrogates an exciting and newly emergent field: the creative collaborations between learning-disabled and non-learning-disabled artists which are increasingly taking place in performance and the visual arts.

The Routledge Companion to Interdisciplinary Studies in Singing, Volume I: Development introduces the many voices necessary to better understand the act of singing-a complex human behaviour that emerges without deliberate training.

Burridge and Svendler Nielsen bring together many perspectives from around the world on dancing experiences through life of senior artists and educators, whether as professionals working with community dance groups, in education or for recreation and well-being.

The Art Therapist's Guide to Social Media offers the art therapy community a guide that addresses content related to social media use, its growing influence, and the impact social networking has on the profession and work of art therapists.