Idyll Arbor's Glossary for Therapists

Idyll Arbor's Glossary for Therapists provides clear, useful definitions for thousands of terms that therapists in today's health care environment must understand to be effective members of their health care team. Definitions of diagnoses include not only the cause and common limitations, but also the implications for intervention. Other features that make the Glossary for Therapists an outstanding reference include: legislation that affects health care, including Medicare, Medicaid and the American's with Disabilities Act; information on the national standards for electronic medical information being developed by the Technology Assessment Board of the United States Congress; a separate section for commonly used abbreviations with an extensive list of abbreviations used in health care; up-to-date information from DSM-VI, Joint Commission, CARF and other accrediting organizations for therapists; lists of charting symbols and their meanings; and commonly used Americ! an units of measure with conversion factors to and from the metric system.