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Trauma, Occupation, and Participation: Foundations and Population Considerations in Occupational Therapy guides occupational therapy practitioners in applying trauma-informed care with their clients across contexts with evidence-based models of assessment and intervention.

Adult Feeding, Eating, and Swallowing demonstrates occupational therapy’s role in dysphagia management within the adult population through evidence-based content, practical how-to information, and emphasis on the multidisciplinary heath care team to equip occupational therapy students and practitioners at all levels to address eating, feeding, and swallowing concerns with their patients.

Occupational therapy practitioners, students, and educators will find thoughtful case studies that reflect the diversity of clients encountered in practice and incorporate principles of equity, justice, inclusion, and belonging through a model of cultural awareness, humility, and empathy in this text.

This update of the classic text is a functional, easy-to-understand instruction manual describing the most common screening methods for clients with neurological disorders. This new edition includes dozens of videos demonstrating and explaining how to do various screens.

Play, children’s main occupation, is essential to growth and development. Through play, children develop social, emotional, physical, and cognitive skills that contribute to physical and mental health as well as school readiness. Adult caregivers are important for promoting children’s play, which also supports both child and parental well-being.

The Occupation-Centered Intervention Assessment (OCIA) is a unique tool students and practitioners can use to assess their own interventions by scoring to indicate levels of personal, contextual, and occupational relevance and overall occupation-centeredness of clinical practice, identifying strategies to implement immediately.

This text provides the how-to aspects of creating evidence-based practices; effectively leading and motivating staff; ensuring ethical service delivery; and important day-to-day items such as budgeting, documentation, and reimbursement.

Aligned with the AOTA Code of Ethics, this book aims to provide help and resources to occupational therapy practitioners managing ethical problems, and prepare students to face daily ethical challenges.

Ways of Living: Intervention Strategies to Enable Participation guides students and practitioners in working with clients across the wide range of occupational therapy services to achieve improved outcomes for clients—outcomes increasingly required by health care reimbursement systems.