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Occupation-centred Practice with Children: A Practical Guide for Occupational Therapists, 2nd ed

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Sylvia Rodger Pages: 410 Size: 3 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 16 March, 2017
eISBN-13: 9781119057758

Occupation–Centred Practice with Children remains the only occupational therapy book which supports the development and implementation of occupation–centred practice with children.  Drawing on the latest occupational therapy theory and research, this new edition has been fully updated throughout, and includes new chapters on occupational transitions for children and young people, assessing children s occupations and participation, intervention within schools, the arts and children s occupational opportunities, as well as using animals to support children s occupational engagement.

Key features:

  • Written by an international expert team of contributors.
  • Each chapter begins with preliminary questions to assist with consideration of current knowledge, and then reflection questions at the conclusion to allow revision of key content in order to support independent learning.
  • Highly practical, with a range of case studies, key point summaries, reflective questions, best practice guidelines, and a range of tools, interventions and techniques to aid applications to practice.
  • A new appendix outlining all the assessments referred to in the book has now been included.

Occupation–Centred Practice with Children is a practical, theoretically grounded and evidence based guide to contemporary occupational therapy practice, and is important reading for all occupational therapy students and therapists wishing to make a real difference to children and their families lives.

Weight Matters for Children: A Complete Guide to Weight, Eating and Fitness

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Rachel Pryke ; Forewords By Joe Harvey And Annabel Karmel. Pages: 227 Size: 65.23 MB Format: PDF Publisher: CRC Press Inc
Published: 06 July, 2016
eISBN-13: 9781138031357

This book is for everyone who would like to see healthy children enjoying great food and plenty of activity. A child’s build counts towards far more than physical appearance alone: self-confidence and personal pride, fitness and susceptibility to illness will all stem from a child’s diet. Eating and exercise habits that begin in childhood are likely to last for life and so getting the basics right is one of the best investments a child can have. Weight Matters for Children provides the best and most up-to-date evidence on understanding children’s choices and their motivation, plus a complete summary of childhood nutrition, from additives to vegetables. It ranges from putting a healthy diet into practice, binning barriers to exercise, tackling bullying and low self-esteem, right through to an A to Z of common conditions and illnesses that are related to diet or physical health.

Developing Multiprofessional Teamwork For Integrated Children`s Services

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Angela Anning … [et Al.].
Pages: 157 Size: 4.42 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Open University Press
Published: 01 May, 2010
eISBN-13: 9780335238125

This book is an important practical resource for all professionals engaged with planning, implementing and evaluating multi-professional teamwork and practice in children`s services. The first book to combine theoretical perspectives, research evidence from the `real world` of children`s services, and reflections on policy and practice in inter-agency services in England, this fully updated new edition retains its popular approach, while reflecting the numerous changes to policy, practice, and research. The book exemplifies what multi-professional work looks like in practice. It examines real dilemmas faced by professionals trying to make it work, and shows how these dilemmas can be resolved. It considers lessons to be learnt, implications for practice and recommendations for making multi-professional practice effective. Featuring useful guidance, theoretical frameworks and evidence-based insights into practice, this book is a key resource for students on courses studying early childhood and families, as well as social workers, teachers, support workers in children`s centres, family support workers, health workers, and managers of a range of children and youth services.

Handbook of Long Term Care of The Childhood Cancer Survivor

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Grace A. Mucci, Lilibeth R. Torno.

Pages: 548 Size: 5.17 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Springer Verlag
Published: 01 January, 2015
eISBN-13: 9781489975843

This authoritative reference examines in depth the myriad challenges facing pediatric cancer survivors and proposes a robust framework for structured follow-up of these patients through adulthood. Approaches to long-term follow-up include both established models of care and targeted models of lifelong surveillance of late effects by bodily systems and neurological outcomes. Sections devoted to quality of life and re-entry after treatment focus on key concerns such as health risk behaviors, school and career issues, psychological challenges, and care disparities. And a robust resources section adds extra usefulness to the expert coverage. Among the Handbook`s topics:

  • Developmental considerations in the transition from child and adolescent to adult survivorship.
  • Long-term follow-up roadmaps by disease and treatment.
  • Neuropsychological effects of pediatric brain tumors and associated treatment.
  • Building resiliency in childhood cancer survivors: a clinician`s perspective.
  • School issues and educational strategies for survivors of childhood cancer.
  • Educating and preparing the childhood cancer survivor for long-term care: a curriculum model for cancer centers.

A work of rare scope, scholarship, and clinical acumen, the Handbook of Long-Term Care of the Childhood Cancer Survivor is a rewarding, practice-building resource essential to a wide range of healing professionals, including primary care physicians, pediatricians, oncologists, nurses, psychologists, neuropsychologists, child psychologists, and licensed therapists.