Comprehensive and informative, the extensively revised fifth edition of Occupational Therapy in Psychiatry and Mental Health is an accessible overview of occupational therapy in psychiatry, providing key information on a range of international models of occupational therapy as well as their practical applications.

Contributors vii Preface xii Foreword xiv Part 1 Theoretical Concepts in Occupational Therapy 1 1 Creative Ability: A Model for Individual and Group Occupational Therapy for Clients with Psychosocial Dysfunction 3Patricia de Witt 2 The Relevance of Occupational Science to Occupational Therapy in the Field of Mental Health 33Lana van Niekerk 3 Ethics, Human Rights and the Law in Mental Health Care Practice 42Dain van der Reyden and Rosemary Crouch 4 Cultural Considerations in the Provision of an Occupational Therapy Service in Mental Health 59Rosemary Crouch 5 Clinical Reasoning in Psychiatric Occupational Therapy 67Vivyan Alers Part 2 Specific Issues in Occupational Therapy 83 6 HIV/AIDS in Psychiatry and Issues Facing Occupational Therapists Regarding Practice: Moral and Ethical Dilemmas 85Dain van der Reyden, Robin Joubert and Chantal Christopher 7 Forensic Psychiatry and Occupational Therapy 106Michelle Moore 8 Acute Psychiatry and the Dynamic Short-Term Intervention of the Occupational Therapist 115Catherine Shorten and Rosemary Crouch 9 Improving Health and Access to Health Services through Community-Based Rehabilitation 126Stephanie Homer 10 Care, Treatment and Rehabilitation Programmes for Large Numbers of Long-Term Mental Health Care Users 148Kobie Zietsman and Daleen Casteleijn 11 Auxiliary Staff in Mental Health Care: Requirements, Functions and Supervision 162Dain van der Reyden 12 Vocational Rehabilitation in Psychiatry and Mental Health 175Lyndsey Swart and Tania Buys 13 Psychiatric Occupational Therapy in the Corporate, Insurance and Medico-legal Sectors 194Lee Randall 14 An Occupational Therapist’s Perspective on Sexuality and Psychosocial Sexual Rehabilitation 212Louise Fouché Part 3 Occupational Therapy with Children, Adolescents and Adults 227 15 Early Intervention for Young Children at Risk for Developmental Mental Health Disorders 229Kerry Wallace 16 Occupational Therapy Intervention with Children with Psychosocial Disorders 248Vivyan Alers 17 Interdisciplinary Group Therapy with Children 263Marita Rademeyer and Deirdre Niehaus 18 Specific Occupational Therapy Intervention with Adolescents 276Louise Fouché and Lisa Wegner 19 Sensory Integration in Mental Health 295Annamarie van Jaarsveld 20 Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder through a Person’s Lifespan: Occupational Therapy to Enhance Executive and Social Functioning 319Ray Anne Cook 21 Trauma and Its Effects on Children, Adolescents and Adults: The Role of the Occupational Therapist 337Vivyan Alers 22 Post-traumatic Brain Injury: Handling Behavioural and Cognitive Changes 356Sylvia Birkhead 23 Occupational Therapy for Anxiety, Somatic and Stressor-related Disorders 368Madeleine Duncan and Claire Prowse 24 Occupational Therapy with Mood Disorders 389Madeleine Duncan and Claire Prowse 25 The Treatment of Eating Disorders in Occupational Therapy 408Rosemary Crouch and Vivyan Alers 26 Understanding Persons with Personality Disorders: Intervention in Occupational Therapy 419Ann Nott 27 The Occupational Therapy Approach to the Management of Schizophrenia 435Rosemary Crouch 28 Substance Use and Abuse: Intervention by a Multidisciplinary Approach Which Includes Occupational Therapy 446Rosemary Crouch and Lisa Wegner 29 Gerontology, Psychiatry and Occupational Therapy 465Susan Beukes Index 480

Comprehensive and informative, the extensively revised fifth edition of Occupational Therapy in Psychiatry and Mental Health is an accessible overview of occupational therapy in psychiatry, providing key information on a range of international models of occupational therapy as well as their practical applications. The fifth edition includes: Case studies throughout to illustrate application of theory to practiceCoverage of key concepts and issues in occupational therapyNew material on emerging areas of practiceComprehensive information on assessment and treatment for children, adolescents and adults, covering key mental health conditions Occupational Therapy in Psychiatry and Mental Health is an ideal resource for students in occupational therapy, newly-qualified and experienced practitioners, and other allied health professionals seeking an up-to-date, globally relevant resource on psychiatry and mental health care.