Conditions in Occupational Therapy Effect on Occupational Performance

by Hansen, Ruth; Atchison, Ben

• ISBN13: 9780683304176
• ISBN10: 0683304178
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-12-03
• Publisher: LWW

Summary

Learn how pathological conditions affect your clients' daily functioning, and what occupational therapy services your clients might need. This revised edition focuses on chronic health problems and their impact on an individual's physical, cognitive, psychological, and social capabilities. Readers learn how the patient's age, life tasks, and living environment affect occupational therapy needs, and how to determine what occupational therapy services to provide. This resource presents the etiology, symptoms, prognosis, and progression of conditions frequently encountered in practice.

Table of Contents

Preface	v
Contributors	vii
Thinking Like an Ot	1	(7)
Ruth A. Hansen
Ben Atchison
Cerebral Palsy	8	(14)
Mary Steichen Yamamoto
Progressive Developmental Disorders	22	(20)
Janie B. Scott
Mental Retardation	42	(12)
Linda York
Schizophrenia	54	(21)
Yvonne Russell Teske
Mood Disorders	75	(23)
Virginia Allen Dicke
Dementia	98	(23)
Joyce Fraker
Jacqueline McKillop
Cerebrovascular Accident	121	(26)
Susan Nasser Bierman
Ben Atchison
Coronary Artery Disease	147	(18)
Ben Atchison
Traumatic Brain Injury	165	(11)
Gerry E. Conti
Spinal Cord Injury	176	(29)
Laura Vincent Miller
Burns	205	(13)
Nancy Cox
Progressive Neurological Disorders	218	(12)
Diane K. Dirette
Rheumatoid Arthritis	230	(38)
Cynthia D. Batts Shanku
Orthopaedics	268	(11)
Joanne P. Estes
Chronic Pain	279	(19)
Catherine Heck Edwards
Diabetes	298	(13)
Joanne P. Estes
Glossary	311	(30)
Appendix I Uniform Terminology for Occupational Therapy: Third Edition	341	(8)
Appendix II Medications	349	(8)
Index	357