Occupational therapy

The proliferation of new digital technologies has given rise to an entirely changed media landscape and revolutionized how we seek entertainment.

When asked to describe what music means to them, most people talk about its power to express or elicit emotions.

When asked to describe what music means to them, most people talk about its power to express or elicit emotions.

FROM THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ABOUT A BOY 31 Songs is best-selling author Nicky Hornby's ultimate desert island disksThrough thirty-one songs that he either loves or has loved, Nick Hornby tells us what music means to his life.

Yoga and the Body: The Future of Modern Yoga in the Studio and Beyond imagines the prospects for physical yoga practice.

This book examines opportunities and obstacles in achieving the digital inclusion of individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

This book presents a comprehensive guide to the design of playing robots and the related play experiences.

This book focuses on evidence-based occupational therapy in the care of older adults in different clinical settings, from home to acute hospital, from intensive care unit to rehabilitation centers and nursing homes.

This book offers a detailed account of all aspects of photosensitive epilepsy, including genetic testing, functional imaging (fMRI, MEG), pharmacological studies, animal studies, classification based on the occurrence of photoparoxysmal responses (PPRs) in different epilepsy syndromes, and the available prevention and treatment options.

Nature Therapy is an innovative approach for working with children who have experienced stress or trauma.

A burgeoning evidence base supports that arts, play and other creative therapies have potential to help children in foster care, kinship care or adoptive families to recover from complex trauma.

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.

Drawing together motivational theory, research-based evidence and guidance for best practice, this book presents innovative models for goal-setting and goal pursuit in therapy with children.

This unique book offers an innovative feminist critique of attachment theory that offers an alternative understanding of relationships between women and their babies in domestic violence.

How connecting with nature is helping veterans reintegrate into civilian life and recover from PTSD.

Psychoanalytically Informed Play Therapy: Fantasy-Exposure Life-Narrative Therapy is a structured manual for the execution of FELT, an integrative play therapy that marries the analytic, relational, and psychodynamic aspects of traditional Play Therapy with the scientific rigor and replicability standards of clinical empiricism.

This book highlights those rare, difficult to diagnose or controversial cases in contemporary clinical neuropsychology.

Art Therapy Through the Lifespan: A Collection of Case Studies introduces theories and models of human development highlighted by case studies written by art therapists and broken down by developmental age ranges.

Dieses Fachbuch bietet einen umfassenden Einblick in die Welt der körperorientierten Heilmethoden und deren Integration in therapeutische Behandlungskonzepte.

This book is a practical guide for using the power of theatre to address issues of oppression in areas such as race, ethnicity, LGBTQ+, gender, and sexual harassment.

Fascia is the biodynamic tissue that connects every muscle, bone, organ, and nerve in the body; it is an emerging field in healthcare and allied health modalities.

Applied Theatre and Gender Justice is a collection of essays highlighting the value and efficacy of using applied theatre to address gender in a broad range of settings, identifying challenges, and offering concrete best practices.

The Colors of Life engages the strategies of Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) to explore life experience through emotion and color.

This book demonstrates how participatory arts-based approaches can help children and youth contribute to peacebuilding within post-conflict contexts and to their communities.

This hands-on volume is both manual and workbook, designed to be used alongside the Understanding Brain Injury Group.

This hands-on volume is both manual and workbook, designed to be used alongside the Understanding Brain Injury Group.

This book brings Grace Pailthorpe's previously unpublished work to readers for the very first time and explores the profound impact of early childhood development on one's psychological well-being.

This book outlines both the theory and application of regulation intervention strategies for children with complex trauma history.

FOUR STARS from Doody's Star RatingsThis comprehensive volume provides vital support for both novice and experienced practitioners of Neuro-Developmental Treatment (NDT) by integrating the latest theoretical foundations of NDT with real-life practice examples.

This book is a practical guide for using the power of theatre to address issues of oppression in areas such as race, ethnicity, LGBTQ+, gender, and sexual harassment.

This book explores the exciting areas of overlap between psychodrama and other therapeutic schools and presents opportunities for their creative interaction and integration.

Using the drama classroom to shape an active, student-centred space and foster a new perspective for understanding the dramatherapeutic change-process, this book explores the processes that underpin the ways young people negotiate and perform their identities as ethical people.

Moving from country to country is no small feat.

Queer Memory and Storytelling unpacks the ways in which the narrative practices of recounting past experiences play a formative role in formation of identities, cultures, and social change among gender and sexually diverse individuals.

Using this book, school counselors can increase their knowledge on the benefits of art therapy approaches in school counseling.

This comprehensive resource is designed to equip occupational therapy assistant (OTA) students and new practitioners with the essential knowledge required for effective skills in management, administration, and leadership.

This book introduces an innovative, efficient, and patient-friendly neural net constructive therapy for patients with mild to severe hemiplegia, not only in the recovery phase but also in acute and chronic phases.

Polyvagal Power in the Playroom shows therapists how to treat children using play therapy to address the hierarchy of autonomic states.

Somatisation or medically unexplained symptoms (MUS) are distressing bodily symptoms for which tests and scans return normal.

Rich in practical insights and personal reflections from teachers and therapists, this book explains what musical play is, how and why it benefits children, and how it can be integrated into educational, community and clinical environments.

The Theatre Artist's Guide to Consent-Based Pedagogy introduces a Consent-Based Pedagogy designed to fuel young students' cognitive, emotional, and artistic growth by promoting students' agency and creating an environment in which boundaries are clearly communicated and needs are acknowledged and respected.

The Theatre Artist's Guide to Consent-Based Pedagogy introduces a Consent-Based Pedagogy designed to fuel young students' cognitive, emotional, and artistic growth by promoting students' agency and creating an environment in which boundaries are clearly communicated and needs are acknowledged and respected.