Occupational Therapy for Adults With Intellectual Disability

Kimberly Bryze

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2024
• ISBN:
  9781040137550
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Occupational Therapy

Occupational Therapy for Adults With Intellectual Disability provides occupational therapy practitioners and students with occupation-based solutions to serve and empower individuals with intellectual disabilities, as well as their families and caregivers, towards more self-determined, authentic lives.There are few texts that exist within occupational therapy that support this population. Dr. Kimberly Bryze and the contributing authors are all occupational therapists who have or currently provide occupational therapy services to adults with intellectual disability in various settings. They bring their expertise in scholarship and offer thoughtful, evidence-based approaches for practitioners to create change for individuals, communities, organizations, and society.This text presents an occupational perspective of individuals with intellectual disability given its focus on the following:

• quality of living
• social well-being
• role competence
• occupational identity
• self-advocacy
• occupational justice

Occupational Therapy for Adults with Intellectual Disability is ideal for occupational therapy educators who teach content related to adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities, occupational therapy practitioners who provide services to adults with intellectual disability in various clinical, community, and residential settings, and occupational therapy students.Included with the text are online supplemental materials for faculty use in the classroom.

The intentional, occupational focus ensures that the content is consistent with recommended practice in current occupational therapy. Occupational therapy practitioners will look to this text to provide evidence-based interventions and when developing consultative programs for persons with intellectual disability across many different settings.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• About the Editor
• Contributing Authors
• Preface
• Foreword
• Chapter 1 Intellectual Disability and Occupational Therapy
• Chapter 2 Health Policy and Funding for Adults With Intellectual Disability: Past, Present, and Future Directions
• Chapter 3 Neurobehavior
• Chapter 4 Attitudes and Beliefs That Guide Occupational Therapy Practice for Adults With Intellectual Disability
• Chapter 5 Promoting Participation in Context Through Self-Determination
• Chapter 6 The Human-Ness of Relationships
• Chapter 7 Evaluation of Occupational Performance and Engagement
• Chapter 8 Promoting Participation and Occupational Engagement
• Chapter 9 Home Life
• Chapter 10 Work Life
• Chapter 11 Leisure Life
• Chapter 12 Spiritual Life
• Chapter 13 The Use of Technology to Enhance Participation
• Chapter 14 Peer Mentoring and Support
• Chapter 15 Person-Centered Planning
• Chapter 16 Preventative and Primary Care for Persons With Intellectual Disability
• Chapter 17 Older Adults With Intellectual Disability
• Chapter 18 Consultation, Collaboration, and Coaching: The Role of Occupational Therapy
• Chapter 19 Visions for the Future
• Financial Disclosures
• Index