Activity Groups in Family-Centered Treatment: Psychiatric Occupational Therapy Approaches for Parents and Children Contributor(s): Olson, Laurette (Author) |
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ISBN: 0789035103 ISBN-13: 9780789035103 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $46.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2006 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Psychotherapy - Couples & Family - Psychology | Industrial & Organizational Psychology - Psychology | Mental Health |
Dewey: 616.891 |
LCCN: 2006024543 |
Physical Information: 0.47" H x 6.04" W x 8.34" (0.63 lbs) 180 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Get the tools for practical family-based interventions for children or adolescents with mental illness Providing parent-child occupation-based interventions can be one of the most important therapeutic services offered to children or parents with mental illness and their families. Activity Groups in Family-Centered Treatment: Psychiatric Occupational Therapy Approaches for Parents and Children provides useful in depth how to strategies into the processes of providing family occupation-based group intervention when a child has a mental illness. Occupational therapists working with children or parents with mental illness can learn valuable practical interventions to apply in their own clinical work. Cherished activities that strengthen parent-child bonds are many times lacking in families that include a child or parent with mental illness. Activity Groups in Family-Centered Treatment describes valuable parent-child occupation-based interventions with detailed examples of how they have been provided in therapy. This text provides an overview of the literature related to providing family-based psychiatric OT treatment for children and their families, a framework for providing services, rich descriptions of a parent-child activity group, a parent-adolescent activity group, and case studies of inpatient and home-based occupation based interventions. Topics in Activity Groups in Family-Centered Treatment include:
Activity Groups in Family-Centered Treatment provides occupational therapists and other professionals who lead parent-child groups or who work with families that include a child or parent with mental illness with integral tools to effectively treat their clients. |