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Informationen zum Autor Laurette Olson Zusammenfassung 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 disorders detailed case studies of family challenges with mental illness a framework for parent-child activity groups a qualitative study of a parent-child activity group analysis of the barriers that can arise in a parent-child activity group clinical experiences leading a parent-adolescent activity group analysis of the influences of culture within a parent-child activity group a case study of the intervention for a depressed mother and her family issues between parents and professionals when children are psychiatrically hospitalized 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword Preface Acknowledgments Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. What Do We Know About the Daily Interactions Between Children with Mental Illness and Their Parents? Chapter 3. Introducing the Parents and Children Participating in One Parent-Child Group on a Child Inpatient Psychiatric Unit Chapter 4. One Parent-Child Activity Group: A Framework and Snapshots Chapter 5. A Qualitative Research Study of One Parent-Child Activity Group Chapter 6. Exploring What Was Missing in One Parent-Child Activity Group Chapter 7. Parent-Child Activity Groups Reconsidered Chapter 8. Engaging Psychiatrically Hospitalized Teens with Their Parents Through a Parent-Adolescent Activity Group Chapter 9. When a Mother is Depressed: Supporting her Capacity to Participate in Co-Occupation with Her BabyA Case Study Chapter 10. Closing Thoughts About Promoting Parent-Child Co-Occupation Through Parent-Child Activity Intervention Index Reference Notes Included ...
