Ben Atchison

This volume explains how pathological conditions affect daily functioning, and what occupational therapy services your clients might need. This revised edition focuses on chronic health problems and their impact on an individual's physical, cognitive, psychological, and social capabilities.

This updated 6th Edition is fully aligned with the most current DSM-5 and Occupational Therapy Practice Framework, 4th Edition, and adds new chapters reflecting recent advances in the management of infectious diseases, general deconditioning, musculoskeletal pain, amputations, and sickle cell anemia. Each chapter follows a consistent format, presenting an opening case followed by descriptions and definitions, etiology, incidence and prevalence, signs...