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.
- Front Matter 11
- 1. Evaluation: Where Do We Begin? 422
- 2. Philosophical and Theoretical Influences on Evaluation 2240
- 3. Assessment Identification and Selection 3856
- 4. Practical Aspects of the Evaluation Process 5068
- 5. Evaluation in the Intervention Planning Process 6886
- 6. Administration of Evaluation and Assessments 90108
- 7. Contextual Evaluation to Support Participation 106124
- 8. Nonstandardized Assessments 124142
- 9. Reliability and Validity: The Psychometrics of Standardized Assessments 146164
- 10. Scoring and Interpretation of Results 164182
- 11. Intrepretation and Documentation 188206
- 12. Reassessment and Reevaluation 204222
- 13. Accommodating Diversity Issues in Assessment and Evaluation 224242
- 14. Ethical Issues in Evaluation 244262
- 15. Occupational Therapy Evaluation and Evidence-Based Practice 270288
- 16. Additional Uses of Evaluation Data 284302
- Subject Index 310328
- Citation Index 316334