Abstract
Evaluation, which promotes a greater understanding of the people occupational therapy serves, is the foundation of occupational therapy practice and provides evidence to guide best practices. This new edition of the classic text focuses on the role of the occupational therapist as an evaluator with assessment support provided by the occupational therapy assistant. Chapters discuss the various aspects of a comprehensive evaluation, including screening, evaluation, reassessment, and re-evaluation, and reaffirm the importance of understanding people as occupational beings. This updated edition also explains statistics occupational therapy practitioners are likely to encounter and what they mean.
The expansion of this revision reflects contemporary evaluation approaches. Most important, the authors discuss the influence that evaluation practices have on practice and remind readers to think about not only what the current practice environment wants an evaluation to be but also what the profession believes a comprehensive evaluation should be.
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Table of Contents
Evaluation in Occupational Therapy: Obtaining and Interpreting Data, 4th Ed.
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Front Matter
11
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1. Evaluation: Where Do We Begin?
422
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2. Philosophical and Theoretical Influences on Evaluation
2240
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3. Assessment Identification and Selection
3856
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4. Practical Aspects of the Evaluation Process
5068
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5. Evaluation in the Intervention Planning Process
6886
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6. Administration of Evaluation and Assessments
90108
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7. Contextual Evaluation to Support Participation
106124
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8. Nonstandardized Assessments
124142
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9. Reliability and Validity: The Psychometrics of Standardized Assessments
146164
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10. Scoring and Interpretation of Results
164182
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11. Intrepretation and Documentation
188206
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12. Reassessment and Reevaluation
204222
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13. Accommodating Diversity Issues in Assessment and Evaluation
224242
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14. Ethical Issues in Evaluation
244262
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15. Occupational Therapy Evaluation and Evidence-Based Practice
270288
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16. Additional Uses of Evaluation Data
284302
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Subject Index
310328
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Citation Index
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