Table of Contents
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