Includes index.

Content: Section 1: Occupational function: definition, process, and history: Conceptual foundations for practice -- Historical and social foundations for practice -- Section II: Assessment of occupational function: Assessing roles and competence -- Assessing abilities and capacities: rang of motion, strength, ad endurance -- Assessing abilities and capacities:motor behavior --Assessing abilities and capacities:sensation -- Assessing abilities and capacities: vision, visual perception an praxis -- Assessing abilities and capacities:cognition -- Assessing context: personal, social, and cultural -- Assessing context: home, community, and workplace access -- Section III: Therapeutic mechanisms : Occupation -- Learning -- Therapeutic rapport -- Section IV : Therapeutic technologies: Upper extremity orthoses -- Construction of hand splints -- Wheelchair selection -- High-technology adaptations to compensate for disability - Physical agent modalities -- Section V: Treatment of occupational function: Planning, guiding, and documenting therapy -- Optimizing abilities and capacities: range of motion, strength, and endurance -- Optimizing motor behavior using the occupational therapy task-oriented approach -- Optimizing motor control using the Carr and Shepherd approach -- Optimizing motor behavior using the Bobath approach -- Optimizing motor behavior using the Brunnstrom Movement Therapy Approach -- Optimizing motor behavior using Biofeedback -- Managing deficit of first-level motor control capacities -- Optimizing sensory abilities and capacities -- Optimizing vision, visual perception, and praxis abilities -- Optimizing cognitive abilities -- Restoring the role of independent person -- Restoring competence in mobility -- Restoring competence in mobility -- Restoring competence for homemaker and parent roles --Restoring competence for the worker role -- Restoring competence in leisure pursuits -- Optimizing personal an social adaptation -- Optimizing access to home , community, and wok environments -- Preventing occupational dysfunction secondary to aging -- Section VI: Treatment to promote occupational function for selected diagnostic categories: Stroke -- Traumatic brain injury -- Neurodegenerative diseases -- Orthopaedic conditions -- Hand impairments -- Spinal cord injury -- Rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis --Burn injuries -- Amputations and prosthetics --Cardiac and pulmonary diseases -- Dysphagia.