This volume discusses prime topics relevant to the practice of short -term psychiatric occupational therapy.

Diane Gibson, Kathy Kaplan

Contents
Introduction

• Short-Term Psychiatric Treatment: How Will Occupational Therapy Adapt?
• Changing Role Expectations of Psychiatric Occupational Therapists
• Short-Term Assessment: The Need and a Response
• The Use of groups in Short-Term Psychiatric Settings
• Occupational Therapy for chronic Pain: A Clinical Application of the Model of Human Occupation
• Short-Term Hospital Treatment of the Acute Schizophrenic Episode
• Theoretical Issues in Short-Term Treatment
• A Psychiatrist's Experience with Occupational Therapy in a Short-Term General Hospital Unit