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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 an overview of theory and research literature on the nature of the interaction between parents and children with emotional disorder detailed case studies of family challenges with mental illnes a framework for parent-child activity group a qualitative study of a parent-child activity grou analysis of the barriers that can arise in a parent-child activity grou clinical experiences leading a parent-adolescent activity grou analysis of the influences of culture within a parent-child activity grou a case study of the intervention for a depressed mother and her famil issues between parents and professionals when children are psychiatrically hospitalize
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.