New to this edition
- New content on the latest advances in OT assessment and intervention includes prosthetics and assistive technologies, and updated assessment and interventions of TBI (traumatic brain injury) problems related to cognitive and visual perception.
Author Information
By Mary Beth Early, MS, OTR/L, Professor, Occupational Therapy Assistant Program, LaGuardia Community College, The City University of New York, Long Island City, NY
Part I: Foundations
1. Occupational Therapy and Physical Disabilities
2. The Disability Experience and the Therapeutic Process
3. Infection Control and Safety Issues in the Clinic
Part II: Process
4. Occupational Therapy Process: Evaluation and Intervention in Physical Dysfunction
5. Documentation of Occupational Therapy Services
Part III: Assessment
6. Assessment of Motor Control and Functional Movement
7. Assessment of Joint Range of Motion
8. Assessment of Muscle Strength
9. Evaluation and Observation of Sensation, Perception and Cognition
Part IV: Intervention Principles
10. Teaching and Learning in Motor Performance
11. Habits of Health and Wellness
12. Occupations, Purposeful Activities, and Preparatory Activities
Part V: Performance in Areas of Occupation
13. Activities of Daily Living
14. Assistive Technology
15. Moving in the Environment
16. Sexuality: An Activity of Daily Living
17. Work
18. Promoting Engagement in Leisure and Social Participation
Part VI: Interventions for Performance Skills and Client Factors
19. The Older Adult
20. Hand Splinting
21. Neurotherapeutic Approaches to Treatment
22. Interventions for Visual and Other Sensory Dysfunction
23. Interventions for Disturbances in Cognition and Perception
Part VII: Clinical Applications
24. Cerebrovascular Accident
25. Traumatic Brain Injury
26. Degenerative Diseases of the Central Nervous System
27. Spinal Cord Injury
28. Neurogenic and Myopathic Dysfunction
29. Arthritic Diseases
30. Acute Hand Injuries
31. Hip Fractures and Lower Extremity Joint Replacement
32. Burns
33. Amputation and Prosthetics
34. Cardiac Dysfunction and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
35. Oncology
36. HIV Infection and AIDS
