Activity Analysis and Application: Building Blocks of Treatment

The best-selling text, Activity, Analysis and Application, is complete ly revised and updated into a fourth edition. This landmark text provi des applicable material to any of the "doing" portions of the occupati onal therapy curriculum, fieldwork, and workplace that address the use of daily life skills, work, and leisure activities as strategies for intervention. This book is sequentially organized from the historical background of occupation as the basis of occupational therapy to its u se as therapeutic intervention. In this comprehensive fourth edition, a significant increase in theoretical material has been added, as wel l as three new chapters discussing occupation, learning strategies, an d activity adaptation. This essential text has been divided into four modules that demonstrate the historical foundations of the use of occu pation as the basis for practice, as well as the dimensions, therapeut ic utilization, and versatility of activity as treatment.