Diverse roles for Occupational Therapists

Download or read book Diverse roles for Occupational Therapists written by Jane Clewes and published by M&K Update Ltd. This book was released on 2016-11-30 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diverse roles for occupational therapists is a compilation of a range of roles for occupational therapists. Authors show how they have embraced opportunities, extended roles, and developed services along with the ever-changing world of statutory services policy. Whilst many of the chapters allude to mental health fields (care coordination, a number of mental health specialities, Mental Health Act), the book also includes topics relevant to general practice (research roles, advanced practice, Assistive Technology, the Mental Capacity Act). This book is intended to inform and inspire the reader, to share ways of dealing with hurdles whilst remaining resilient to prevailing pressures and difficulties borne out of our working lives as occupational therapists in a wide range of settings. Contents include: Occupational therapists as care coordinators Occupational therapists and assertive outreach Occupational therapists working in a Crisis Home Treatment Team Occupational therapy on a Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit Prison inreach: the occupational therapist role Social groups within an intensive mental health team, and creative methods for evaluating the service Occupational therapists delivering Recovery Occupational therapists delivering rehabilitation Roles in vocational rehabilitation Occupational therapists delivering assistive technology The child and adolescent primary mental health work role Enabling young people’s participation in their mental health service Working with families Early intervention with psychosis: the occupational therapist’s role Working with people with personality disorder Working with people with eating disorders Occupational therapists as cognitive behaviour therapists Improving Access to Psychological Therapies The Approved Mental Health Professional role Roles associated with the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards The occupational therapist as an advanced practitioner Research roles for occupational therapists