Pedretti’s Occupational Therapy: Practice Skills for Physical Dysfunction, 8th Edition, prepares you for occupational therapy practice with adults with physical disabilities. This cornerstone text provides a foundation for developing clinical reasoning skills in a comprehensive, case-based learning approach to physical dysfunction. New full-color photos and helpful pedagogy, including threaded case studies, OT Practice Notes, ethical considerations, and end-of-chapter review questions, reinforce learning, enhance retention, and prompt you to apply principles in a clinical setting.
- UNIQUE! Threaded case studies throughout each Chapter help you apply concepts to real-life clinical practice.
- UNIQUE! Ethical Considerations boxes highlight the key ethical concerns of treatment options so you can practice ethically.
- UNIQUE! OT Practice Notes convey important considerations for professional practice.
- This course focuses on the occupational therapist’s role in health and wellness, which the OTA has identified as a key practice area in the 21st century.
- Information on prevention, rather than intervention or treatment, shows how OTs can take a proactive role in patient care.
- Evidence-based content is included throughout, especially regarding evaluation and intervention.
- Content on occupational therapy’s commitment to considering cultural and ethnic diversity is in every chapter.
- Key terms, Chapter outlines, and objectives lay out the information you can expect to learn from each Chapter.
- NEW! Coverage of the Occupational Therapy Practice Framework (OTPF-3) increases your understanding of the OTPF-3 and its relationship to occupational therapy practice with adults with physical disabilities.
- NEW! The new section on the therapeutic use of self, which the OTPF lists as the most critical intervention occupational therapists can provide.
- NEW! Chapter on hospice and palliative care presents the evidence base for hospice and palliative care occupational therapy, describes the role of the occupational therapist with this population within the parameters of the third edition of the Occupational Therapy Practice Framework (OTPF-3), and recommends clinician self-care strategies to support ongoing quality care.
- UPDATThe completely revised Spinal Cord Injury chapter addresses the restoration of available muscular,ure; self-, independent living sk; short—and long-term equipment n, eds; environmental access, city; and educational, work, and leisure activities. also examines how the occupational therapist offers emotional support and intervention during every phase of the rehabilitation program.
- UPDATED! A revised chapter on low back pain discusses critical topics for the occupational therapist, including anatomy, client evaluation, intervention areas, client-centered occupational therapy analysis, and intervention strategies for frequently impacted occupations.
- UPDATED! The revised Special Needs of the Older Adult chapter now utilizes a top-down approach, starting with wellness and productive aging, then moving to occupation and participation in meaningful activity, and finally, highlighting body functions and structures that have the potential to physiologically decline as a person ages.
- NEW and EXPANDED! An additional section in the Orthotics chapter looks at the increasing array of orthotic devices available today, such as robot-assisted therapy, to support the weak upper extremity.
- UPDATED! Revised chapters on joint range of motion and evaluation of muscle strength include new full-color photos to illustrate better how to perform these essential procedures.
- EXPANDED! New information in the Burns and Burn Rehabilitation chapter, including expanded discussions on keloid scars, silver-infused dressings, biosynthetic products, the reconstructive phase of rehabilitation, and patient education.
- UPDATED and EXPANDED! A significantly updated chapter on amputations and prosthetics includes the addition of a new threaded case study on “Daniel,” a 19-year-old combat engineer in the United States Army who suffered the traumatic amputation of his non-dominant left upper extremity below the elbow.
