Occupational Therapy for Mental Health
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 how to be a psychosocial practitioner in any setting. They'll understand the recovery process for all areas of an individual's life--physical, emotional, spiritual, and mental--and know how to manage co-occurring conditions. New! Focus on the continuum of psychosocial care for all clients across all practice settings progresses from healthy functioning to mental illness to recovery and flourishing. New! Guidance on how to be a psychosocial OT practitioner in any setting with all clients New! Eight chapters discuss: the mental health continuum, trauma-informed practice, chronic conditions, social determinants, natural environments, virtual environments, suicide prevention, and connectedness and belonging. New! "Being a Psychosocial Practitioner Profile" presents examples of the clinical reasoning practitioners have used to support the psychosocial health of clients in various practice settings. New! "Practitioner Profile" vignettes provide a window into a typical day of an OT in specific settings. New! "Mental Illness in Culture, Politics, and Society" highlights current events, art, books, films, organizations, and political issues that concern individuals with mental illness. New! 32 online videos feature practitioners, students, and clients discussing their personal experiences across the mental health continuum. Uses the Person-Environment-Occupation (PEO) model as a framework to promote full participation in the lives of individuals with mental illness and those struggling with psychosocial issues related to their disabilities. Features first-person "The Lived Experience narratives that give voice to the experience of living with a mental illness. Incorporates "Photo Voice" features, a blend of photography and personal stories that enable individuals to record their visions and experiences to promote dialogue about important issues. Promotes best practices with "Evidence-Based Practice "boxes that synthesize significant research and implications for practice.
Scars After Surgeries in the Abdominal Area
In this guide, you will receive comprehensive insights into dealing with scars related to complaints after abdominal surgery and their effects on the rest of the body. You will learn practical self-help techniques that provide quick and effective relief. At the same time, you will learn to understand pain as a form of communication from your body and how to manage acute and chronic pain. From the content: expert knowledge about the functioning and dysfunctions of the body, adhesions of fascia in the tissue and adhesions in the abdominal area, indications and contraindications for scar treatment, self-exercises for every stage of wound healing, everyday movements and sleeping positions, questions and answers from daily life with scars.
Basic & Applied Concepts of Blood Banking and Transfusion Practices
Master the role of the medical laboratory scientist working in the blood bank and transfusion services! Basic & Applied Concepts of Blood Banking and Transfusion Practices, 6th Edition combines scientific principles with practice tips to engage learners with realistic laboratory experiences. These concepts are delivered through relevant case studies and critical thinking exercises. The text provides an overview of topics including quality and safety, the major blood groups, blood collecting and testing, transfusion reactions, and blood component preparation. Written by Paula Howard and Wyenona "Nonie" Hicks, both experienced Medical Laboratory Scientists and certified as Specialists in Blood Banking (SBB), this text is ideal for students in any Medical Laboratory Science (MLS), Medical Laboratory Technician (MLT), or Blood Bank Technology (BBT) training program, as well as for practicing laboratory and healthcare professionals who wish to train for work in blood banks and transfusion services.NEW! Full-color illustrations that break down concepts for enhanced learner comprehension, especially for those who favor visual learningNEW! Did You Know?, Case Study, ALERT! What's the Impact?, and Practice Tips provide important facts and guidelines to prepare you for situations encountered in practiceNEW! Additional case studies relate to donor qualification and testing, ABO discrepancies, molecular immunohematology techniques, antibody identification, stem cell transplants, and coagulation disorders, offering extra practice in critical thinking developmentNEW! Cell therapy and flow cytometry information, expanded HLA and platelet antigen and antibody material, detailed molecular genetic information in the Rh blood group system chapter, and an expanded molecular genetics section prepare you for the questions you'll be challenged with on the certification examNEW! End-of-chapter Critical Thinking and Study Questions are keyed to the objectivesCoverage of current clinical practices includes transplantation and cellular therapy, the HLA system, molecular techniques and applications, automation, blood donor qualification, collection and testing, component manufacturing and transfusion practices, therapeutic phlebotomy and therapeutic apheresis, and antibody identification and special techniquesLearning features in each chapter break down difficult concepts with outlines, learning objectives, key terms with definitions, special callouts, chapter summaries, basic and challenging case studies, critical thinking exercises, and study questionsNumerous new, updated, and expanded tables summarize key information and make it easier to compare content. These will certainly continue to provide excellent references for graduates practicing in blood banks and transfusion servicesUpdated illustrated blood group antigen toolbars show at a glance the ISBT symbol, number, clinical significance, reactions to chemical treatments, and more for antibodiesComprehensive glossary provides definitions to key terms throughout the textExpanded online resources for students and instructors include additional study/test questions and case studies
Patient Care in Radiography
Master radiography patient care with the book that covers it best! With step-by-step instructions and hundreds of full-color illustrations, Patient Care in Radiography, 11th Edition, is the perfect resource to help you learn effective radiography patient care. Each chapter expertly guides you through the latest imaging guidelines, carefully making the connection between the topics being discussed and how they relate to patient care. Special emphasis is placed on the skills and procedures that are imperative for quality patient care - including safety, transfer, positioning, infection control, and patient assessment. Also included is information on microbiology, emerging diseases, transcultural communication, ECGs, administering medications, and bedside radiography to ensure you are well-versed in both the technical and interpersonal skills needed for professional practice.NEW! Cutting-edge coverage addresses patient care as it relates to COVID, imaging care for transgender and gender diverse patients, and additional content on surgical imagingUPDATED! Content on shielding guidelines presents the latest radiation safety informationStep-by-step procedures are shown in photo essays with patient care content integrated into procedural skillsContent outlines highlight the key topics covered in each chapterShorter chapters help organize the material more effectively and enhance readability.Warning boxes alert you to essential safety issuesAdditional pedagogical elements, such as learning objectives, key terms, illustrations, tables, boxes, comprehensive summaries, review questions, and critical thinking exercises help you focus on the key information in each chapter
A Mammographers Guide: Radiological and Histopathological Guidelines
This comprehensive mammography textbook brings numerous benefits and fills a significant gap in medical diagnostics. It provides a detailed, structured approach to breast imaging, making it a unique and indispensable resource for healthcare professionals. Firstly, this textbook stands out for its uniqueness. Unlike many existing resources, it offers a step-by-step guide to the standard imaging protocol used in breast imaging, ensuring optimal imaging quality. This includes detailed explanations of the cranial-caudal (CC) and mediolateral oblique (MLO) views, which are the primary modalities for detecting potential pathological findings. By adhering to these standardized protocols, mammographers can improve the accuracy of their diagnoses and reduce the risk of missed malignancies. The textbook is meticulously structured to serve both novice and experienced mammographers. It begins with foundational concepts, such as the importance of comparing current imaging with previous studies to identify new densities. It then progresses to more advanced topics, including the differentiation between benign and malignant conditions. The detailed descriptions of imaging criteria for benign conditions, such as being oval, well-rounded, well-encapsulated, large, bilateral, and unchanged from prior imaging, provide mammographers with the knowledge needed to make informed decisions about patient care. Intended primarily for mammographers, this textbook serves as a valuable resource for medical students, technologists, and other healthcare professionals involved in breast imaging. By providing a comprehensive guide to breast imaging, it addresses a critical gap in the field. The clear, structured content ensures that readers can apply the latest imaging techniques and criteria to improve diagnostic accuracy and patient outcomes. In summary, the aims and objectives of creating this mammography textbook are to provide a unique, structured resource for mammographers, ensuring they have the tools and knowledge necessary to enhance their practice and improve patient care.
Get Through Final FRCR 2A
This is the first revision guide to map directly to the new structure of the FRCR Final Part A examination (CR2A). Spanning a broad range of topics, the second edition follows the core clinical radiology curriculum, covering all modalities. It is divided into 7 test papers, consisting of 120 mixed SBA-type questions each with detailed answers in sequential order. The content has been updated in line with question stems from recent examinations. There are also topics which introduce core concepts of Artificial Intelligence (AI), given its growing emphasis in radiology and its recent introduction into the Royal College of Radiologists curriculum. Every answer is followed by a short explanation and relevant discussion around the topic with appropriate references. Each paper should take three hours to complete.Delivering over 20 hours of focused exam practice, this guide is a sound investment for trainee radiologists preparing for their Final Part A exam.
Movement and Identity
This trauma-informed approach to counselling and bodywork explores the ways in which varying facets of identity and culture manifest in the body, allowing a much more nuanced, person-centred approach to client care. Marcia Bonato Warren, MA, MA, LPC describes how our bodies interpret our identities, often informed by cultural norms, communication styles, trauma, and systems of power and oppression. Therapists and bodyworkers reading this book will have the opportunity to engage personally and professionally, learning to build on their own somatic awareness in order to engage with compassionate curiosity rather than resistance when confronted with identity-based differences. Each section uses the SIA Loop, a mechanism representing three entry-points we use to process information: Sensation, Interpretation, Action, which supports the deeper work offered by the Identity Expression Infinity Loop, where identities are invited to move with strength and skill. These pioneering tools allow readers to examine their own somatic experiences, beliefs, behaviours, and choices, all of which is supplemented with journal prompts and questions. In guiding readers in how to interpret the body's expression of identity, this unique guide maximises the potential of therapists to foster change, increase empathy, and nurture connection through trauma-informed, somatically aware bodywork.
Healing Through Working
From the foreword: "It appears that many clients first need to become physically stronger and healthier before being able to handle the psychological processes of change. One important aspect in the vision of the treatment is the accent that is placed on 'doing.' Living and working together in a community where more emphasis is placed on the healthy, rather than the ill aspect of the human being is central to the therapy as conceived by these therapeutic communities for persons with psychiatric problems."
Soft Tissue Release
Whether for sports competition, work, or maintenance of posture, everyone needs muscles that are not only strong but also supple and in balance. Regular manipulation of the soft tissues has an essential role to play, and soft tissue release (STR) will transform any treatment, allowing specific problems to be rapidly and effectively addressed. In full color with helpful photos and illustrations, Soft Tissue Release: A Practical Handbook for Physical Therapists, Fourth Edition, demonstrates all the benefits of including soft tissue release in your practice. The text covers the theory behind soft tissue dysfunction and assessment as well as soft tissue release techniques for treating clients. Techniques to address issues in the lower limbs, trunk and neck, and upper limbs are explored in detail. The text considers how treatment can be applied before and after an athletic event and how clients can apply self-treatment. Special consideration is given to young athletes, older clients, and pregnant and postpartum clients.
Occupational Therapy for People Experiencing Illness, Injury or Impairment
Occupational Therapy for People Experiencing Illness, Injury or Impairment: Promoting Occupational Participation, Eighth Edition is a seminal textbook that has been used in preregistration occupational therapy education for more than 40 years. Now in its eighth edition, it reflects significant developments within the occupational profession and the contexts of the delivery of health and social care when working with people who experience illness, injury or impairment to promote occupational participation. It is highly regarded for its level of detail, its practical approach, and the breadth of its content, with input from multiple authors from around the world. Fully updated and built around the professional concepts and processes to promote occupational participation this invaluable resource will enable occupational therapists link theory with day-to-day practice, reflect on the knowledge, expertise and attitudes that inform their work and practice in a critically reflexive way.Practical text and online assets link theory with day-to-day practiceCollaborative-relationship-focused, inclusive and strengths-based languageSummaries and key points for each chapter make navigation easyFocus on working with groups, communities and populations in addition to working with individuals, reflecting the evolving and expanding scope of practicePractice stories throughout the text, and detailed practice stories in Section 5, inviting the reader to reflect on the information, skills and attitudes that inform practiceOnline multiple choice questions and questions for reflection at the end of each chapter enable readers to assess and apply their knowledge
Sonography Exam Review: Physics, Abdomen, Obstetrics and Gynecology
Davis's Comprehensive Manual of Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests with Nursing Implications
Evidence-Based Medical Exercise Therapy
This scientifically grounded and comprehensive practical book details all aspects of medical exercise therapy. It combines theoretical foundations, proven training methods, and their implementation in evidence-based practice, supplemented by concise summaries. From head to toe, all body areas are covered, including various body systems and their clinical pictures. With this book, you will learn to create tailored training plans and competently advise your patients in physiotherapy or sports therapy on topics such as nutrition, supplements, sleep, and mental training. Contents include: anatomical and physiological foundations, areas of medical exercise therapy such as strength endurance, maximal strength, speed strength, explosive strength, reactive strength, endurance, proprioception, and flexibility, age-related and disease-associated changes and their influences on training planning, assessment, training, and influencing factors such as mental status and muscle memory effect, and much more. Clinical pictures of the nervous system, such as Parkinson's disease and multiple sclerosis, training after COVID-19, for migraines, dementia, and coronary heart disease.
Radiation Oncology Clinical Fundamentals
This textbook presents a pragmatic approach to the principles and practices of radiation oncology as practiced at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, incorporating recent clinical trial data and the latest techniques. It aims to clarify radiotherapy administration approaches that span the gamut across various technologies, both traditional and cutting edge. By synthesizing scientific literature and expert knowledge, the work connects theoretical concepts with practical application, addressing the challenge of navigating extensive research to inform treatment decisions. Indeed, this overall work serves as a guide for those seeking to develop a comprehensive understanding of current radiotherapy practices, focusing on clinical scenarios and evidence-based methods. Experts in each disease site have followed a structured approach, ensuring that readers have access to a logical, sequential, and thorough resource for various cancers, thus facilitating optimal patient care throughout the entire treatment continuum. By presenting information in this comprehensive manner, the textbook serves as an invaluable guide for medical students, residents, and attending physicians alike, bridging the gap between theoretical knowledge and practical application in the field of radiation oncology.
Fundamentals of the Physical Therapy Examination: Patient Interview and Tests & Measures
Fundamentals of the Physical Therapy Examination: Patient Interview and Tests & Measures, Third Edition provides physical therapy students and clinicians with the fundamental, step-by-step information needed to determine questions to ask and tests and measures to perform during a patient exam. Features- 75 videos demonstrate numerous assessment techniques and patient interviews- 5 case studies at the end of each primary test/measure chapter that walks through the decision-making process for which tests to use, which not to use and why- Navigate Advantage includes an eBook with embedded videos and Knowledge Check Questions, slides in PowerPoint format, and image bank.- Instructor Resources include slides in PowerPoint format, a test bank, lecture outlines, a sample syllabus, and image bank.Course Titles- Foundations of Physical Therapy- Clinical Skills- Tests and Measures- Examination and Intervention
Diseases of the Chest, Heart and Vascular System 2025-2028
What Radiology Residents Need to Know: Abdominal Radiology
This book provides first year radiology residents an easy to digest, image rich book with key information necessary to learn and succeed on their first abdominal rotations. Current generation learners prefer just in time learning of high impact material, presented in small, quick to assimilate formats. This book is not intended to provide an exhaustive overview of abdominal pathology; rather, it serves to provide foundational knowledge and approaches to imaging of common diseases. Each chapter focuses on an organ system and covers commonly encountered diseases or disorders. Each topic discusses the imaging findings on different imaging modalities, allowing the leaner to see how the same disease process will appear on each modality. This is of benefit even if the trainee has not yet rotated through that modality as it will allow them to build knowledge that can then be more critically applied as they reread the information on that disorder when they rotate on thatmodality. This is an ideal guide for all first-year radiology residents.
Target Volume Delineation in Hematologic Malignancies
This practical guide provides radiation oncologists with clear, practical guidelines for delineating target volumes and radiation fields for a diverse group of hematologic malignancies. The treatment fields and volumes described in this guide can be used when treating with conformal therapies, such as intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) and/or proton therapy. Each chapter focuses on clinical target volume (CTV) contouring for specific hematologic malignancies, including lymphomas, leukemias and plasma cell neoplasms. Since target volumes can be complex in certain clinical circumstances, each chapter includes multiple, detailed illustrations of the volumes in representative cases contoured slice by slice in the planning CT images, with accompanying diagnostic images that are commonly used in image fusion. The book will be a valuable resource for practicing radiation oncologists, medical physicists, medical dosimetrists, residents, radiation therapists and other medical professionals.
Occupational Therapy in the Philippines
The first book of its kind, Occupational Therapy in the Philippines provides a context to the existing occupational therapy knowledge base from a Filipino perspective. This book acts as a guide for occupational therapists to develop and continually evaluate trusting working relationships with clients and other health and social care professionals, leading to more effective occupational therapy services. It discusses occupational therapy concepts, principles, and practices and illustrates examples of occupational therapy practices based on Filipino case studies, narratives, and evidence, and offers recommendations on how to enrich occupational therapy understanding globally. The chapters delve into theory, education and training, clinical practice, research, case studies and topical issues. This book is an ideal read for occupational therapy students and practitioners from all areas of practice as well as to those who are interested to know more about occupational therapy.
Hatha Yoga
Hatha Yoga: A Comprehensive Guide is a must-read if you want to get the most from your yoga practice. Starting from the traditional approach to yoga, you will discover how each yoga pose affects the inner body and how systematic yoga practice can increase your overall health and well-being. You will also learn the ancient principles of sequencing asanas according to their corresponding chakras (energy centers). Renowned yoga teacher trainers Ram Jain and Mich癡le Hauswirth describe how to create safe, fulfilling, and holistic Hatha Yoga practices for different levels of ability and goals. They provide visual and practical descriptions of over 200 asanas, with detailed instructions, alignment cues, contraindications, and suggested modifications based on the experience level of the practitioner. The sample sequences of varying lengths will help you reap the benefits of Hatha Yoga and elevate your yoga experience to a whole new level.
