This professionally challenging volume--focusing on the performance and status of Certified Occupational Therapy Assistants (COTAs)--serves as a basis for reexamination and redefinition of the relationship between occupational therapists and assistants. Experts offer constructive possibilities for resolving some of the ongoing conflicts about the appropriate functions and education of COTAs and promote examination of the appropriate levels of function and education for the occupational therapist. The selected topics, chosen for their value and relevance to all occupational therapists--OTRs, COTAs, clinicians, and academicians--address the administrative issues regarding efficient use of COTAs and opportunities for their career development and job satisfaction; models of COTA practice described by COTAs who developed and implemented them within the framework of their jobs; and issues of concern to COTAs primarily as expressed by COTAs, with proposals and strategies for their resolution.

Certified Occupational Therapy Assistants: Opportunities and Challenges

Johnson, Jerry A.

Parenting & Relationships

Routledge

This significant volume provides broad coverage of the spectrum of problems confronted by patients with developmental disabilities and the many kinds of occupational therapy services these individuals need. Experts identify exemplary institutional and community service programs for treating patients with autism, cerebral palsy, epilepsy, and mental retardation. A welcome contribution to the meager professional literature on the subject, Developmental Disabilities: A Handbook for Occupational Therapists will be an enormously helpful resource for therapists who work with both children and adults, ranging from mild to severe levels of impairment. You will learn how to establish a therapeutic environment for children with autism, develop a pre-vocational program in a pediatric skilled care facility, use qualitative research to obtain insight into the world of adults with significantly limiting cerebral palsy, and provide early intervention for your developmentally disabled patients.

Developmental Disabilities: A Handbook for Occupational Therapists (Occupational Therapy in Health Care Series, Vol 6, No. 2 &3)

Ethridge, David A

Family Health

Representing one of the most visionary concepts about occupational therapy practice and education available today, Occupational Science: The Foundation for New Models of Practice introduces the notion of a basic science of occupation. Specifically, this provocative volume proposes that the profession of occupational therapy, in collaboration with other relevant scientific disciplines, develop a science of occupation that would provide a foundation for occupational therapy practice. The development of an occupational science is desirable since occupation and its meaning for and application to human life are unique to occupational therapy and embody the principles upon which the profession was founded. The forward-thinking authors discuss the relevance of this potential science, propose arguments for its acceptance and support by members of the profession, and provide illustrations that suggest its application in practice. Certain to provoke serious discussion among occupational therapists, this revolutionary book offers new potential and possibilities for the continuing growth of occupational therapy as a scientific discipline and as a profession. Occupational Science: 
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<li>introduces the idea of a basic science of occupation which studies the human as an occupational being </li>
<li>demonstrates the application of occupational science to occupational therapy practice </li>
<li>provides innovative models of occupational therapy practice to improve the capacities of people who have chronic disability and to prevent incapacity in those at risk</li>
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Occupational Science: The Foundation for New Models of Practice

Medical Books

Yerxa, Elizabeth

Allied Health Professions

Productive Living Strategies for People With AIDS

Here is an empowering and educational book about rehabilitation and HIV disease. Written for persons infected with HIV and AIDS, caregivers of people infected with HIV and AIDS, spiritual leaders, medical professionals, persons in the behavioral sciences, and all allied health professionals, Productive Living Strategies for People With AIDS will help HIV-infected persons become more functional and independent in daily life.From the time of diagnosis, people with HIV disease often encounter challenges in occupational functioning, including problems in mobility, strength, and coordinated movement; pain; difficulty in caring for one’s personal needs or in performing work, school, home, and community environments; and limitations in engaging in routine activities. Experts from the fields of rehabilitation medicine, nursing, social work, and occupational and physical therapy have created a unique resource filled with information on improving quality of living through rehabilitation. These experts address a vast and diverse set of topics, including the medical and psychosocial aspects of adults and children with HIV, rehabilitation needs of HIV-infected children and their caregivers, AIDS in the prison system, spiritual and cultural aspects, day treatment program development, human values, and gay grief. Case examples, intervention strategies, and program development are emphasized so that both the layperson and health care professional can share in the vision of rehabilitation for people with HIV and AIDS.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Pizzi, Michael A

Diseases & Physical Ailments

Wellness: A Context for Living

Slack, Inc.

Developmental Disabilities

Occupational Therapy Approaches to Traumatic Brain Injury

This sensitive book provides a much-needed compilation and description of OT programs for the care of individuals disabled by traumatic brain injury (TBI). Focusing on the disabled individual, the family, and the societal responses to the injured, this comprehensive book covers the spectrum of available services from intensive care to transitional and community living. Both theoretical approaches to the problems of brain injury as well as practical treatment techniques are explored in Occupational Therapy Approaches to Traumatic Brain Injury. The processes of assessment and intervention are vital to the recovery of brain-injured patients and this thorough book devotes two chapters specifically to assessment and several chapters on intervention and family involvement. This useful volume contains information about rehabilitation from ‘coma to community,’as well as numerous other approaches.The findings and treatment suggestions presented here are applicable to many helping professionals working with TBI patients. Health care practitioners working with brain injured persons and their families in both institutional and community contexts, physical therapists, physicians, nurses, and psychologists and social workers involved with assessment will find this an invaluable addition to their professional references.

Krefting, Laura H

Basic Sciences

Book by Crauder, Bruce C., Evans, Benny, Johnson, Jerry A.

Quantitative Literacy: Thinking Between the Lines (Budget Books)

Science & Math

Crauder, Bruce C

Evans, Professor Benny

Noell, Alan V

Mathematics

W.H.Freeman & Company

This sensitive book provides a much-needed compilation and description of OT programs for the care of individuals disabled by traumatic brain injury (TBI). Focusing on the disabled individual, the family, and the societal responses to the injured, this comprehensive book covers the spectrum of available services from intensive care to transitional and community living. Both theoretical approaches to the problems of brain injury as well as practical treatment techniques are explored in Occupational Therapy Approaches to Traumatic Brain Injury. The processes of assessment and intervention are vital to the recovery of brain-injured patients and this thorough book devotes two chapters specifically to assessment and several chapters on intervention and family involvement. This useful volume contains information about rehabilitation from ‘coma to community,’as well as numerous other approaches.The findings and treatment suggestions presented here are applicable to many helping professionals working with TBI patients. Health care practitioners working with brain injured persons and their families in both institutional and community contexts, physical therapists, physicians, nurses, and psychologists and social workers involved with assessment will find this an invaluable addition to their professional references.

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