Book overview
**2025 Textbook and Academic Authors Association (TAA) McGuffey Longevity Award Winner**
**Selected for 2026 Doody's Core Titles as an Essential Purchase in Occupational Therapy**
Gain the knowledge and skills you need to treat clients/patients with physical disabilities! Pedretti's Occupational Therapy: Practice Skills for Physical Dysfunction, 9th Edition uses a case-based approach threaded through each chapter to provide a solid foundation in evaluation, intervention, and clinical reasoning. The text continues to support the entry-level occupational therapist and the experienced occupational therapist focused on expanding skills and knowledge. With the OT practice framework as a guide, you will focus on the core concepts and central goals of client care. And by studying threaded case studies, you will learn to apply theory to clinical practice. Written by a team of expert OT educators and professionals led by Heidi McHugh Pendleton and Winifred Schultz-Krohn, this edition includes an eBook free with each new print purchase, featuring a fully searchable version of the entire text.
- UNIQUE! Threaded case studies begin and are woven through each chapter, helping you develop clinical reasoning and decision-making skills and to apply concepts to real-life clinical practice
- UNIQUE! Ethical Considerations boxes examine the obligation to collaborate with clients on their care, using evidence to select treatment options
- UNIQUE! OT Practice Notes convey important tips and insights into professional practice.
- Illustrated, evidence-based content provides a foundation for practice, especially relating to evaluation and intervention
- Information on prevention - rather than simply intervention or treatment - shows how OTs can take a proactive role in client care
- Focus on health promotion and wellness addresses the role of the occupational therapist in what the AOTA has identified as a key practice area
- Content on cultural and ethnic diversity is included in every chapter, reflecting occupational therapy's commitment to this important issue
- Key terms, chapter outlines, and chapter objectives highlight the information you can expect to learn from each chapter
- NEW! Updated content reflects the new Occupational Therapy Practice Framework (OTPF) and the new Accreditation Council for Occupational Therapy Education (ACOTE) curriculum standards along with the new AOTA Code of Ethics.
- NEW! Implementation of Occupational Therapy Services, Therapeutic Use of Self, Telehealth, and Lifestyle Redesign chaptersare added to this edition.
- NEW! Content on the role of the occupational therapist with clients/patients who experience long COVID.
- NEW! Inside look at the lived experience of disability covers the intersection of disability perspectives and occupational justice, along with the implications for Occupational Therapy.
- NEW! UpdatedMindfulness chapter is expanded to cover the wide use of mindfulness in occupational therapy for those with physical disabilities.
- NEW! eBook version - included with print purchase - allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices, and offers the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have the content read aloud.