Table of Contents

SECTION I: OCCUPATIONAL FUNCTION: DEFINITION, PROCESS, AND HISTORY Chapter 1: Conceptual Foundations for Practice Chapter 2: Historical and Social Contexts for Practice Chapter 3: Planning, Guiding, and Documenting Practice SECTION II: ASSESSMENT OF OCCUPATIONAL FUNCTION Chapter 4: Assessing Roles and Competence Chapter 5: Assessing Abilities and Capacities: Range of Motion, Strength, and Endurance Chapter 6: Assessing Abilities and Capacities: Motor Behavior Chapter 7: Assessing Abilities and Capacities: Sensation Chapter 8: Assessing Abilities and Capacities: Vision, Visual Perception, and Praxis Chapter 9: Assessing Abilities and Capacities: Cognition Chapter 10: Assessing Context: Personal, Social, and Cultural Chapter 11: Assessing Context: Home, Community, and Workplace Access SECTION III: THERAPEUTIC MECHANISMS Chapter 12: Occupation: Philosophy and Concepts Chapter 13: Occupation as Therapy: Analysis, Selection, Gradation, Adaptation Chapter 14: Learning Chapter 15: Therapeutic Rapport SECTION IV: THERAPEUTIC TECHNOLOGIES Chapter 16: Upper Extremity Orthoses Chapter 17: Construction of Hand Splints Chapter 18: Wheelchair Selection Chapter 19: High-Technology Adaptations to Compensate for Disability Chapter 20: Physical Agent Modalities SECTION V: TREATMENT OF OCCUPATIONAL FUNCTION Chapter 21: Optimizing Abilities and Capacities: Range of Motion, Strength, and Endurance Chapter 22: Optimizing Motor Behavior Using the Occupational Therapy Task Oriented Approach Chapter 23: Optimizing Motor Skills Using Task-Related Training Chapter 24: Optimizing Motor Behavior Using the Bobath Approach Chapter 25: Optimizing Motor Behavior Using the Brunnstrom Movement Therapy Approach Chapter 26: Managing Deficit of First-Level Motor Control Capacities Using Rood and Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation Techniques Chapter 27: Optimizing Sensory Abilities and Capacities Chapter 28: Optimizing Vision, Visual Perception, and Praxis Abilities Chapter 29: Optimizing Cognitive Abilities Chapter 30: Restoring the Role of Independent Person Chapter 31: Restoring Mobility Chapter 32: Restoring Competence for Homemaker and Parent Roles Chapter 33: Restoring Competence for the Worker Role Chapter 34: Restoring Competence in Leisure Pursuits Chapter 35: Optimizing Personal and Social Adaptation Chapter 36: Optimizing Access to Home, Community, and Work Environments Chapter 37: Preventing Occupational Dysfunction Secondary to Aging SECTION VI: TREATMENT TO PROMOTE OCCUPATIONAL FUNCTION FOR SELECTED DIAGNOSTIC CATEGORIES Chapter 38: Stroke Chapter 39: Traumatic Brain Injury Chapter 40: Neurodegenerative Diseases Chapter 41: Orthopaedic Conditions Chapter 42: Hand Impairments Chapter 43: Spinal Cord Injury Chapter 44: Rheumatoid Arthritis and Osteoarthritis Chapter 45: Burn Injuries Chapter 46: Amputations and Prosthetics Chapter 47: Cardiac and Pulmonary Diseases Chapter 48: Dysphagia Chapter 49: Human Immunodeficiency Virus Chapter 50: Oncology Index