Pediatric Skills for Occupational Therapy Assistants - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 4th Edition
- Utilizes a family-centered perspective, using the terminology of the AOTA Practice Framework, which focuses on tailoring the OT approach to meet the needs of children within the context of their own environments.
- Includes evidence-based content such as clinical trials and outcome studies that demonstrate the basis for OTA best practices.
- Presents case examples that show how key concepts apply to real-life situations.
- UNIQUE! Features expert advice and tips from the authors and contributors in highlighted Clinical Pearls boxes.
- Addresses cultural diversity and sensitivity to introduce you to the wide groups of people that OTAs treat.
- Incorporates prevention as a role OTA’s have in addition to intervention and treatment.
- Contains suggested activities in each chapter that help bridge the gap between the classroom and the clinic.
- Prepares you for the information you’re expected to learn from the chapter with key terms, chapter outlines, and chapter objectives at the beginning of each chapter.
- Helps you assess and evaluate what you’ve learned with review questions and summaries at the end of each chapter.
- UNIQUE! Evolve website offers a variety of video clips and learning activities to help reinforce the material you learn in the text.
ISBN :
9780323169318
Publication Date :
28-09-2015
- Utilizes a family-centered perspective, using the terminology of the AOTA Practice Framework, which focuses on tailoring the OT approach to meet the needs of children within the context of their own environments.
- Includes evidence-based content such as clinical trials and outcome studies that demonstrate the basis for OTA best practices.
- Presents case examples that show how key concepts apply to real-life situations.
- UNIQUE! Features expert advice and tips from the authors and contributors in highlighted Clinical Pearls boxes.
- Addresses cultural diversity and sensitivity to introduce you to the wide groups of people that OTAs treat.
- Incorporates prevention as a role OTA’s have in addition to intervention and treatment.
- Contains suggested activities in each chapter that help bridge the gap between the classroom and the clinic.
- Prepares you for the information you’re expected to learn from the chapter with key terms, chapter outlines, and chapter objectives at the beginning of each chapter.
- Helps you assess and evaluate what you’ve learned with review questions and summaries at the end of each chapter.
- UNIQUE! Evolve website offers a variety of video clips and learning activities to help reinforce the material you learn in the text.
New to this edition
- NEW! Content on emerging areas of practice (such as community systems) broadens readers’ awareness of where interventions for children can take place.
- NEW! Content on physical agent modalities (PAMS) outlines the theory and application of PAMS as used by OTAs with pediatric clients.
- NEW! Pediatric MOHO assessments that are now available in the chapter on Model of Human Occupation (MOHO) assessments describe how these assessments can help with intervention.
- NEW! Content on childhood obesity, documentation, neurodevelopmental treatment, and concepts of elongation have been added to keep readers abreast of the latest trends and problems.
Key Features
- Utilizes a family-centered perspective, using the terminology of the AOTA Practice Framework, which focuses on tailoring the OT approach to meet the needs of children within the context of their own environments.
- Includes evidence-based content such as clinical trials and outcome studies that demonstrate the basis for OTA best practices.
- Presents case examples that show how key concepts apply to real-life situations.
- UNIQUE! Features expert advice and tips from the authors and contributors in highlighted Clinical Pearls boxes.
- Addresses cultural diversity and sensitivity to introduce you to the wide groups of people that OTAs treat.
- Incorporates prevention as a role OTA’s have in addition to intervention and treatment.
- Contains suggested activities in each chapter that help bridge the gap between the classroom and the clinic.
- Prepares you for the information you’re expected to learn from the chapter with key terms, chapter outlines, and chapter objectives at the beginning of each chapter.
- Helps you assess and evaluate what you’ve learned with review questions and summaries at the end of each chapter.
- UNIQUE! Evolve website offers a variety of video clips and learning activities to help reinforce the material you learn in the text.
Author Information
By Jean W. Solomon, MHS, OTR/L, FAOTA, Occupational Therapist, Private Practice and Jane Clifford O'Brien, PHD, MS.ED.L, OTR/L, FAOTA, Professor, Occupational Therapy Department, University of New England Portland, Maine, USA
