Ideas and Activities for Working Therapeutically with Worried Children and Their Families
This book sets out therapeutic activities to help children aged 4-12 years and their families to better understand and manage anxiety. It explains how to work with anxious children, providing a framework for assessment and therapy that draws on CBT, ACT and narrative therapy approaches.
If you're transgender, non-binary, or any other gender under the wide and wonderful trans umbrella, this book is for you. A creative journal and workbook with a difference, this book combines coloring pages celebrating trans identity, beauty and relationships, with practical advice, journaling prompts and space for reflection to promote ......
The Connected Therapist's Guide to Low-Cost Activities for Working with
In using this resourceful guide, therapists can develop a comprehensive understanding of how trauma impacts their young clients brains and sensory systems. Filled with therapeutic strategies and activities tailored to specific regions of the brain, professionals will be able to optimise brain rehabilitation and improve sensory processing ......
Understand and assess the sensory needs of people with dementia, and learn how to implement sensory modulation-based approaches for enriched care.
Drawing on the author's Sensory Modulation Program, this approach aids with self-organization and meaningful participation in life activities. Explaining ......
What Global OT Practice Can Teach Us About Innovation, Culture, and Comm
This is an enlightening anthology of 16 interviews conducted with occupational therapists from around the world who share their personal reflections and challenges in occupational therapy within different cultural and political contexts. It encourages global cultural awareness and nurtures a sense of connection with practitioners around the world.
the Spectrum of Loss with Individuals and Communities
Drawing on expertise in both expressive arts and grief counselling, this book highlights the use of expressive arts therapeutic methods in confronting and healing grief and bereavement. Establishing a link between these two approaches, it widens our understanding of loss and grief.
This is a ground-breaking guide that helps physiotherapists understand the complexities of ME/CFS whilst providing evidence-based approaches on the management of this deeply under-recognised condition. It includes case studies in each chapter with comprehensive discussions on how the information can be applied to physiotherapy practice.
This evidence based and practical guide demonstrates the benefits allied health practitioners are seeing from taking therapy outside, and the reasons doing so can help clients of all generations. Resources are provided to make the process as simple and accessible as possible, empowering therapists to bring nature into their practice.
Welcome to Dagmarsminde, an innovative nursing home in Denmark with a remarkable and life-affirming approach to dementia care. The founder and staff of this replicable model strive to help persons with dementia enjoy a rich, normal-feeling life. Following person-centered practices, daily life includes routines focused on good nutrition, contact ......
A handy pocket guide to help Occupational Therapy students prepare for their practice placements. Placements can be daunting to the unprepared. This pocket guide is designed to make occupational therapy placements more enjoyable and less stressful and to help students get the most out of their practice learning experience.
This is an essential book for occupational therapists and students seeking knowledge and practical information on creating antiracist practices. Compiled of a collection of global voices active in the OT community, this book addresses key concerns faced by minority ethnic groups and provides sustainable advice in tackling inequalities.
This fascinating book brings together Koenigs lectures, essays and notes on music therapy, most of which have never before been published. In them he explores areas such as studies on hearing, the nature of musical experience
Providing essential support to schools and universities that offer yoga therapy training programs, this comprehensive, edited textbook develops robust curricula, enabling them to prepare yoga therapists to integrate into healthcare settings safely and effectively.
In the autumn of 1912, Rudolf Steiner presented the first eurythmy performance. It marked the revival, in modern form, of the sacred art of dance, which had been used in the ancient Mysteries to express the movements of the stars and the planets.
Creative Tools for Therapeutic Practice and Supervision
This practical book for arts therapists and other mental health professionals contains a wide variety of art activities. Each one focuses on a different aspect of positive psychology, such as creativity, flow, character strengths, self-awareness and wellbeing. It also includes background theory, case examples, and post-activity guiding questions.
Poetry is increasingly used in therapy, and it already occupies a central place in expressive arts therapies. This book is the first to explicitly combine theory and practice from the field of expressive arts with poetry and poetics.
Supporting People with ME/CFS, Fibromyalgia and Long Covid
Based on an 8-week Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy programme, this guide addresses the increasing need for adapted mindfulness in the management of ME/CFS, fibromyalgia, Long Covid, and other chronic fatigue conditions. Using current understanding and theoretical approaches to Long Covid and ME/ CFS, this book allows practitioners to ......
This holistic guide provides an integrative toolbox on how healthcare and fitness professionals can promote lifestyle medicine with their clients. Its clinical and evidence-informed approach focuses on the six primary lifestyle medicine factors: nutrition, exercise, sleep hygiene, stress management, risky substance use, and social connectedness. ......
A Workbook for Occupational Therapists and Students
This is an essential and accessible guide for occupational therapists looking to develop key skills in housing adaptations and assessments. Packed with evidence-based research, practical activities, case studies, and digital resources, this is a must-have resource for OTs looking to develop a key area of practice.
This unique resource is now in an extensively revised second edition with more than 90% new material and an expanded conceptual framework. Filled with rich case material, the book explores how children's cultural identities--as well as experiences of marginalization--shape the challenges they bring to therapy and the ways they express themselves. ......
A Practical Resource for Carers of People with Cognitive Impairment 5/e
This fifth edition contains the latest research on the use of the QCS PAL Instrument and new information on using the PAL Engagement Measure. It features photocopiable activity checklists and plans that help professionals match users' abilities with personal care and leisure activities to aid them in meaningful activity.
A creative CBT workbook that helps adults explore issues around anger, based on prevalent CBT principles, for use as a standalone resource or alongside professional therapy. It explains the theories of CBT in an accessible way, and presents them in easy-to-use activity sheets, which can be written on, drawn on and coloured in
This book shows how art therapists can use found objects - an affordable, imaginative medium - when working with clients. With a wide variety of contributors from around the world, and covering a vast array of topics, this is the ideal resource for any art therapist wishing to enrich their practice.
A self-study guide to support staff in intellectual disability services to understand and respond to the complex and holistic needs of people with profound and multiple learning disabilities.
A Psychodynamic Primer for the Treatment of Young Children
Offering a skillful balance of broad but coherent foundational information as well as practical application, this book functions both as an introduction for young therapists and as a guide for more experienced child clinicians.
Promoting Inclusion, Rights and Opportunities for People Living with Dementia
Bringing together professional and lived experience, this collection of expert voices frames dementia practice with an occupational justice lens. It provides a focus for learning and development in practice for occupational therapists and allied health workers working in dementia care, incorporating the voice of people living with dementia.
