Ideas and Activities for Working Therapeutically with Worried Children and Their Families
This book sets out therapeutic activities to help children aged 4-12 years and their families to better understand and manage anxiety. It explains how to work with anxious children, providing a framework for assessment and therapy that draws on CBT, ACT and narrative therapy approaches.
Assessment and Activities for Sensory-Enriched Care
Understand and assess the sensory needs of people with dementia, and learn how to implement sensory modulation-based approaches for enriched care.
Drawing on the author's Sensory Modulation Program, this approach aids with self-organization and meaningful participation in life activities. Explaining ......
The Connected Therapist's Guide to Low-Cost Activities for Working with Children
In using this resourceful guide, therapists can develop a comprehensive understanding of how trauma impacts their young clients brains and sensory systems. Filled with therapeutic strategies and activities tailored to specific regions of the brain, professionals will be able to optimise brain rehabilitation and improve sensory processing ......
A Coloring Book and Journal for Trans and Non-Binary People
If you're transgender, non-binary, or any other gender under the wide and wonderful trans umbrella, this book is for you. A creative journal and workbook with a difference, this book combines coloring pages celebrating trans identity, beauty and relationships, with practical advice, journaling prompts and space for reflection to promote ......
Working Across the Spectrum of Loss with Individuals and Communities
Drawing on expertise in both expressive arts and grief counselling, this book highlights the use of expressive arts therapeutic methods in confronting and healing grief and bereavement. Establishing a link between these two approaches, it widens our understanding of loss and grief.
An OT and Optometrist Offer Activities to Improve Vision!
Developing healthy visual-motor abilities is more difficult in the complex stimulus of today's world than ever before. Our visual experiences can be overwhelmed by the vast complexity of artificial colors and sounds which did not exist in our ancestors' lives. Much more time is spent indoors, exposed to a myriad of unnatural colors, movement and ......
What Global OT Practice Can Teach Us About Innovation, Culture, and Community
This is an enlightening anthology of 16 interviews conducted with occupational therapists from around the world who share their personal reflections and challenges in occupational therapy within different cultural and political contexts. It encourages global cultural awareness and nurtures a sense of connection with practitioners around the world.
Person-centered, recovery-oriented, occupation-based Here's practical information on the theories, evidence, assessments, and interventions that are crucial to effective occupational therapy mental health practice. Students will gain an understanding of the lived experience and an evidence-based, recovery-oriented perspective with guidance on ......
Helping Children and Families in Foster Care, Kinship Care or Adoption
A burgeoning evidence base supports that arts, play and other creative therapies have potential to help children in foster care, kinship care or adoptive families to recover from complex trauma.
Written by contributors working at the cutting edge of delivering effective therapeutic interventions, this innovative ......
