Cognitive and Perceptual Rehabilitation

• Author : Glen Gillen
• Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
• Release : 29 April 2008

Reflecting current practice with a renewed focus on function-based assessments and evidence-based interventions, Cognitive and Perceptual Rehabilitation: Optimizing Function includes all of the tools you need to make a positive impact on your patients’ lives. This clinical resource summarizes, highlights, and constructively critiques the state of cognitive and perceptual rehabilitation. This text helps you enhance your patients’ quality of life by promoting improved performance of necessary and meaningful activities, and decreasing participation restrictions. Evidence-based intervention tables focus on improving daily

• Author : Susan B O'Sullivan,Thomas J Schmitz,George Fulk
• Publisher : F.A. Davis
• Release : 25 January 2019

Rely on this comprehensive, curriculum-spanning text and reference now and throughout your career! You’ll find everything you need to know about the rehabilitation management of adult patients… from integrating basic surgical, medical, and therapeutic interventions to how to select the most appropriate evaluation procedures, develop rehabilitation goals, and implement a treatment plan. Online you’ll find narrated, full-color video clips of patients in treatment, including the initial examination, interventions, and outcomes for a variety of the conditions commonly seen

• Author : Glen Gillen,Dawn M. Nilsen
• Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
• Release : 13 September 2020

Learn to confidently manage the growing number of stroke rehabilitation clients with Gillen’s Stroke Rehabilitation: A Function-Based Approach, 5th Edition. Using a holistic and multidisciplinary approach, this unique text remains the only comprehensive, evidence-based stroke rehabilitation resource for occupational therapists. This new fifth edition has been extensively updated to include the research, trends, and best practices in the field. As with previous editions, this comprehensive reference uses an application-based method that integrates background medical information, samples of functionally based

• Author : Glen Gillen, EdD, OTR, FAOTA
• Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
• Release : 12 August 2015

Learn to confidently manage the growing number of stroke rehabilitation clients with Gillen's Stroke Rehabilitation: A Function-Based Approach, 4th Edition. Using a holistic and multidisciplinary approach, this text remains the only comprehensive, evidence-based stroke rehabilitation resource for occupational therapists. The new edition has been extensively updated with the latest information, along with more evidence-based research added to every chapter. As with previous editions, this comprehensive reference uses an application-based method that integrates background medical information, samples of functionally based evaluations,

• Author : Kathleen Okkema
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 03 June 1993

This book guides the therapist in evaluation, goal setting, and treatment planning for stroke patients in the areas of perception and cognition, relating these problem areas to functional outcomes. Unlike other texts available today, the integrated approach of the authors combines an evaluation format (clinical observation and standardized tests), strategies for setting the required long and short-term goals for patients, and current treatment guidelines.

• Author : Michael Curtin,Matthew Molineux,Jo-Anne Webb (formerly Supyk/Mellson)
• Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
• Release : 20 October 2009

The sixth edition of this classic book remains a key text for occupational therapists, supporting their practice in working with people with physical impairments, stimulating reflection on the knowledge, skills and attitudes which inform practice, and encouraging the development of occupation-focused practice. Within this book, the editors have addressed the call by leaders within the profession to ensure that an occupational perspective shapes the skills and strategies used within occupational therapy practice. Rather than focusing on discrete diagnostic categories the

• Author : Joan Toglia,Erin R Foster
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 14 April 2021

This text provides practical information, tools and resources for implementation of the Multicontext Approach (MC) in cognitive rehabilitation. The Multicontext approach is uniquely designed to promote and enhance cognitive strategy use, self-awareness and self-monitoring skills across everyday activities in a way that maximizes functional outcomes for people with cognitive impairments due to acquired brain injury and other health conditions. Assembled by a leading worldwide expert in cognitive rehabilitation, this is the first comprehensive volume that integrates Multicontext treatment principles, evidence

• Author : Florence S. Cromwell
• Publisher : Psychology Press
• Release : 03 June 1986

Here is an invaluable book that provides you with a comprehensive introduction and exploration of the present and future issues of computer use in occupational therapy. This practical book will serve as a resource--to the novice, the experienced, and the student--regarding the often overwhelming world of microcomputer use in your profession. Computer Applications in Occupational Therapy will serve as your source of answers to the questions you may have regarding the often overwhelming world of microcomputer usage in your field.

• Author : Heidi McHugh Pendleton,Winifred Schultz-Krohn
• Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
• Release : 10 March 2017

Pedretti’s Occupational Therapy: Practice Skills for Physical Dysfunction, 8th Edition prepares you for occupational therapy practice with adults who have physical disabilities. This cornerstone text provides a foundation for the development of clinical reasoning skills in a comprehensive, case-based learning approach to physical dysfunction. New full color photos and helpful pedagogy, including threaded case studies, OT Practice Notes, ethical considerations, and end-of-chapter review questions, reinforce learning, enhance retention, and prompt you to apply principles in a clinical setting. UNIQUE!

• Author : June Grieve
• Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
• Release : 24 December 1999

The second edition of this successful textbook provides the occupational therapy student with descriptions of perceptual and cognitive abilities, supported by theoretical models. Experienced clinicians will find more in-depth assessment of perceptual and cognitive deficits for their neurologically-impaired clients, based on an understanding of the underlying mechanisms. The text has been updated throughout to reflect the growth of cognitive rehabilitation within occupational therapy. oPart I is an introduction to the methods of cognitive neuropsychology and to the components of the

• Author : Mary Beth Early
• Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
• Release : 07 August 2013

Covering the scope, theory, and approaches to the practice of occupational therapy, Physical Dysfunction Practice Skills for the Occupational Therapy Assistant, 3rd Edition prepares you to care for adults who have physical disabilities. It takes a client-centered approach, following the latest OT Practice framework as it defines your role as an OTA in physical dysfunction practice. New to this edition is coverage of polytrauma, advances in prosthetics and assistive technologies, and assessment and interventions of traumatic brain injury problems related

• Author : Barbara A. Schell,Glen Gillen,Marjorie Scaffa,Ellen S. Cohn
• Publisher : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
• Release : 08 March 2013

Willard and Spackman’s Occupational Therapy, Twelfth Edition, continues in the tradition of excellent coverage of critical concepts and practices that have long made this text the leading resource for Occupational Therapy students. Students using this text will learn how to apply client-centered, occupational, evidence based approach across the full spectrum of practice settings. Peppered with first-person narratives, which offer a unique perspective on the lives of those living with disease, this new edition has been fully updated with a

• Author : Glen Gillen,Ann Burkhardt
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 03 June 1998

The first comprehensive text on occupational therapy management of the CVA patient! Containing the most up-to-date research on stroke rehabilitation without losing a holistic perspective, it combines aspects of background medical information, a critical review and samples of functionally based evaluations, treatment techniques and interventions. The text contains chapters on specific functional aspects of living after a stroke, such as driving, sexuality, leisure, instrumental ADL, mobility and gait, and self-care. In addition, it highlights function-based approaches to working with patients

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 03 June 1986

• Author : Donald T. Stuss,Gordon Winocur,Ian H. Robertson
• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• Release : 07 October 1999

This is the first truly comprehensive survey of cognitive rehabilitation, spanning the spectrum from basic science to functional outcome. The international team of expert authors provide a critical review of theoretical and methodological issues relating to specific rehabilitation procedures and also to programme organization and management. The book is based on the twin premises that basic science is the foundation of rehabilitation and that successful outcome is dependent on the specificity of the rehabilitation. In demonstrating this, the book goes