Rheumatology Practice in Occupational Therapy : Promoting Lifestyle Management

__Rheumatology Practice in Occupational Therapy__ is a valuable new handbook focusing on the core area of rheumatology. It provides practical guidance to help occupational therapists treat and manage rheumatic disease in both clinical and community settings and emphasizes a contemporary ‘client-centred’ approach as a fundamental requirement of effective and rewarding OT practice. Drawing upon personal, clinical and theoretical perspectives, it equips the reader with an understanding not only of relevant practical skills but of the clinical reasoning required to modify and apply these skills to the needs of individual people. Rheumatology Practice in Occupational Therapy: Promoting Lifestyle Management is a valuable new handbook focusing on rheumatology, a core area of occupational therapy practice. It provides practical guidance to help occupational therapists treat and manage rheumatic conditions in both clinical and community settings and emphasises a contemporary ‘client-centred'approach as a fundamental requirement of effective and rewarding occupational therapy practice. Drawing upon personal, clinical and theoretical perspectives, Rheumatology Practice in Occupational Therapy equips the reader with an understanding of the relevant practical skills and of the clinical reasoning required to modify and apply these skills to the needs of individual people. Written by experts from occupational therapy, sociology and psychology, this book addresses the need to adapt occupational therapy interventions to each client's own experience of living with a rheumatic condition and develops the reader's understanding of key theoretical and clinical approaches to person-centred management. Rheumatology Practice in Occupational Therapy is essential reading for all occupational therapists helping people with rheumatic conditions in hospital and community settings, and for students preparing for practice. It will also be of interest to other healthcare professionals working with people with these conditions. • Includes personal narratives of people trying to live their lives within the context of a debilitating condition • Promotes understanding of key theoretical and clinical approaches to person-centred management • Written by authors with extensive experience in clinical and research contexts • Offers practical resource sections at the end of each chapter Related titles Occupational Therapy and Older People, 2nd Edition Anita Atwal, Anne McIntyre 978-1-4443-3333-6 Role Emerging Occupational Therapy: Maximising Occupation Focused Practice Miranda Thew, Mary Edwards, Sue Baptiste, Matthew Molineux 978-1-4051-9782-3 Interprofessional Rehabilitation: A Person-Centred Approach Sarah G. Dean, Richard J. Siegert, William J. Taylor 978-0-470-65596-2 Table of Contents: Living with a rheumatic disease : the personal perspective / Lynne Goodacre and Maggie McArthur Living with rheumatic diseases : the theoretical perspective / Maggie McArthur and Lynne Goodacre Understanding rheumatic diseases : the occupational therapy perspective / Maggie McArthur Managing rheumatic conditions : the policy perspective / Lynne Goodacre Occupational therapy assessment and outcome measurement / Annette Sands and Lynne Goodacre Psychological approaches to understanding and managing rheumatic conditions / Deborah Harrison Approaches to promoting behaviour change Joint protection / Alison Hammond Pain management / Lucy Reeve and Margaret McArthur Maintaining independence / Jill Jepson and Lynne Goodacre Vocational rehabilitation / Lucy Reeve and Janet Harkness Rheumatology splinting / Sarah Bradley and Jo Adams Maintaining a sense of self / Penny Sloane and Lynne Goodacre