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This quick reference guide helps occupational therapy students and practitioners perform efficient and comprehensive evaluations for adults with disabilities. Designed to fit in the lab coat pocket, this book guides readers through the process of an evaluation. For easy reading, information in this spiralbound volume is organized into tables, boxes, and schematics. Features include: detailed appendices about standardized assessments and formal evaluation procedures; illustrated evaluation procedures; an evaluation checklist to help readers track each client's evaluation; suggestions for sequencing and abbreviating different evaluation procedures; and advice on meeting third-party payers' reimbursement requirements.
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The only book of its kind on the market, Occupational Therapy Evaluation for Adults: A Pocket Guide 2e provides occupational therapy students and practitioners with a quick yet comprehensive reference to help perform efficient evaluations of adults to identify problems and plan and implement interventions to produce optimal therapeutic outcomes. Designed to fit in the lab coat pocket, this book guides readers through the process of an evaluation.
This second edition update has been revised to reflect updated AOTA standards and to include an explosion of new assessments and tools. The authors have also focused on providing information for community-based practitioners (i.e. visiting therapists) and information for assessing clients in a natural setting. Key features include illustrations and photographs demonstrating assessment techniques, thePoint site with assessment forms and tools for instructors, new evaluation tools for community-based practice, interview skills, HIPAA guidelines in communication, and a terminology appendix that includes commonly used statistics interrupted in relation to evaluation tools.
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Master the concepts and skills necessary for effective practice with
Occupational Therapy Evaluation for Adults: A Pocket Guide, 2nd Edition. Reflecting the latest AOTA standards, this pocket-sized guide is a quick, comprehensive reference designed to help you learn to perform efficient evaluations of adults, identify problems, and plan and implement interventions to produce optimal therapeutic outcomes.
See how concepts are applied to practice with real world clinical examples in every chapter. Develop your skills and understanding with illustrations and photographs that demonstrate assessment techniques. Broaden your knowledge with easy-to-understand coverage of a client-centered top/down approach using the Occupational Therapy Practice Framework (OTPF). Prepare your students for community-based practice with a range of new evaluation tools. Develop practical skills for the workplace with up-to-date coverage of interview skills, HIPAA guidelines for communication, and more. Access a wide range of useful tools, including tables that capture information in an easy-to-read manner, an appendix on terminology, and online evaluation forms.
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Master the concepts and skills necessary for effective practice with
Occupational Therapy Evaluation for Adults: A Pocket Guide, 2nd Edition. Reflecting the latest AOTA standards, this pocket-sized guide is a quick, comprehensive reference designed to help you learn to perform efficient evaluations of adults, identify problems, and plan and implement interventions to produce optimal therapeutic outcomes.
See how concepts are applied to practice with real world clinical examples in every chapter. Develop your skills and understanding with illustrations and photographs that demonstrate assessment techniques. Broaden your knowledge with easy-to-understand coverage of a client-centered top/down approach using the Occupational Therapy Practice Framework (OTPF). Prepare your students for community-based practice with a range of new evaluation tools. Develop practical skills for the workplace with up-to-date coverage of interview skills, HIPAA guidelines for communication, and more. Access a wide range of useful tools, including tables that capture information in an easy-to-read manner, an appendix on terminology, and online evaluation forms.
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Fully revised to re flect the latest AOTA standards, Occupational Therapy Evaluation for Adults: A Pocket Guide, 2nd Edition is a quick, and#160;comprehensive reference to guide and#160;students and practitioners as they perform efficient evaluations of adults, identify problems, and#160;and plan and implement interventions to produce optimal therapeutic outcomes. Clinical examples illustrate the application of content, illustrations demonstrate assessment techniques, and extensive tables capture information in an easy-to-read manner.and#160;This completely revised and updated Second Edition covers a wide range of new assessments and tools for community-based practitioners, includes up-to-coverage of assessing clients in natural settings, and offers a strong focus on helping readers develop practical skills for the workplace. and#160;and#160;
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This package contains the following products:
- 9781451176179 Mulligan Occupational Therapy Evaluation for Children, 2e
- 9781451176193 Vroman Occupational Therapy Evaluation for Adults: A Pocket Guide, 2e
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Occupational Therapy Evaluation / Relation Between Evaluation, Theory, and Frame of Reference / Evaluation and Clinical Reasoning / Demands of the Health Care Marketplace / Information Needed from Screening and Evaluation / Suggestions for Use of Rest of Book Chapter 2: A Guide to Evaluation Steps: / Review the client's medical record and/or other pre-evaluation information / Collect your evaluation materials / Check with nursing to see if the client can be seen / Stop before entering client's space, take a deep breath, clear your mind, focus on taking in everything you will see and hear during your evaluation / Knock before entering client's room, home, space / Read any signs posted in client's environment about medical precautions or care procedures / Introduce yourself, ask the client how he or she would like to be addressed and make sure the client is physically comfortable / Interview the client and/or his/her caregivers / Observe functional performance and record observations / Evaluate component skills contributing to functional performance problems and record evaluation results / Note type and amount of cuing client needs for activity performance / Synthesize and summarize the data; make discharge projections, project and record rehabilitation objectives and interventions planned to reach discharge projections Chapter 3: Suggested Evaluation Sequences for Different Time Limits / 20-30 Minute Screenings / 30-40 Minute Evaluations / 40-60 Minute Evaluations / Doing an Evaluation Over Several Intervention Sessions Appendices / Appendix A: Interview Assessments of Client Priorities / Appendix B: Basic and Instrumental Activity of Daily Living Assessments / Appendix C: Somatic Sensory Evaluation / Appendix D: Cognitive/Perceptual Assessments / Appendix E: Motor Evaluation Procedures / Appendix F: Psychosocial Skills Assessment / Appendix G: Discharge Situation Assessments / Appendix H: Uniform Terminology / Appendix I: International Classification of Impairments, Activities, and Participation