Occupational Therapy in Psychiatry and Mental Health

Description

Comprehensive and informative, the extensively revised fifth edition of Occupational Therapy in Psychiatry and Mental Health is an accessible overview of occupational therapy in psychiatry, providing key information on a range of international models of occupational therapy as well as their practical applications.

This fifth edition includes:

· Case studies throughout to illustrate application of theory to practice
· Coverage of key concepts and issues in occupational therapy
· New material on emerging areas of practice
· Comprehensive information on assessment and treatment for children, adolescents and adults, covering key mental health conditions

Occupational Therapy in Psychiatry and Mental Health, 5th edition is an ideal resource for students in occupational therapy, newly-qualified and experienced practitioners, and other allied health professionals seeking an up-to-date, globally relevant resource on psychiatry and mental health care.

Table of contents

PART ONE Theoretical Concepts in Occupational Therapy

• CHAPTER 1 Creative ability: a model for individual and group occupational therapy for clients with psychosocial dysfunction
  Patricia de Witt
• CHAPTER 2 The relevance of occupational science to occupational therapy in the field of mental health
  Lana van Niekerk
• CHAPTER 3 Ethics, human rights and the law in mental health care practice
  Dain van der Reyden and Rosemary Crouch
• CHAPTER 4 Cultural considerations in the provision of an occupational therapy service in mental health
  Rosemary Crouch
• CHAPTER 5 Clinical reasoning in psychiatric occupational therapy
  Vivyan Alers

PART TWO Specific Issues in Occupational Therapy

• CHAPTER 6 HIV/AIDS in psychiatry: Issues facing occupational therapists regarding practice: Moral and ethical dilemmas
  Dain van der Reyden, Robin Joubert and Chantal Christopher
• CHAPTER 7 Forensic psychiatry and occupational therapy
  Michelle Moore
• CHAPTER 8 Acute psychiatry and the dynamic short term intervention of the occupational therapist
  Catherine Shorten and Rosemary Crouch
• CHAPTER 9 Improving health and access to health services through Community Based Rehabilitation
  Stephanie Homer
• CHAPTER 10 Care, treatment and rehabilitation programmes for large numbers of long-term mental health care users
  Kobie Zietsman and Daleen Casteleijn
• CHAPTER 11 Auxiliary staff in mental health care: requirements, functions and supervision
  Dain van der Reyden
• CHAPTER 12 Vocational rehabilitation in psychiatry and mental health
  Lyndsey Swart and Tania Buys
• CHAPTER 13 Psychiatric occupational therapy in the corporate, insurance and medico-legal sectors
  Lee Randall
• CHAPTER 14 An occupational therapist’s perspective on sexuality and psycho-social sexual rehabilitation
  Louise Fouché

PART THREE Occupational Therapy with children, adolescents and adults

• CHAPTER 15 Early intervention for young children at risk for developmental mental health disorders
  Kerry Wallace
• CHAPTER 16 Occupational therapy intervention with children with psychosocial disorders
  Vivyan Alers
• CHAPTER 17 Interdisciplinary group therapy with children
  Marita Rademeyer, Deirdre Niehaus
• CHAPTER 18 Specific occupational therapy intervention with adolescents
  Louise Fouche and Lisa Wegner
• CHAPTER 19 Sensory integration in mental health
  Annamarie van Jaarsveld
• CHAPTER 20 Attention deficit hyperactive disorder through a person’s lifespan: occupational therapy to enhance executive and social functioning
  Ray Anne Cook
• CHAPTER 21 Trauma and its effects on children, adolescents and adults: the role of the occupational therapist
  Vivyan Alers
• CHAPTER 22 Post-traumatic brain injury: handling behavioural and cognitive changes
  Sylvia Birkhead
• CHAPTER 23 Occupational therapy for anxiety, somatic and stressor related disorders
  Madeleine Duncan and Claire Prowse
• CHAPTER 24 Occupational therapy with mood disorders.
  Madeleine Duncan and Claire Prowse
• CHAPTER 25 The treatment of eating disorders in occupational therapy
  Rosemary Crouch and Vivyan Alers
• CHAPTER 26 Understanding and treating people with personality disorders in occupational therapy
  Ann Nott
• CHAPTER 27 The occupational therapy approach to the management of schizophrenia
  Rosemary Crouch
• CHAPTER 28 Substance-use and abuse: intervention by a multi-disciplinary approach which includes occupational therapy.
  Rosemary Crouch and Lisa Wegner
• CHAPTER 29 Gerontology, psychiatry and occupational therapy
  Susan Beukes