Activity Groups in Family-Centered Treatment

<p>Get the tools for practical family-based interventions for children or adolescents with mental illness <br><br>Providing parent-child occupation-based interventions can be one of the most important therapeutic services offered to children or parents with mental illness and their families. Activity Groups in Family-Centered Treatment: Psychiatric Occupational Therapy Approaches for Parents and Children provides useful in depth how to strategies into the processes of providing family occupation-based group intervention when a child has a mental illness. Occupational therapists working with children or parents with mental illness can learn valuable practical interventions to apply in their own clinical work.<br><br>Cherished activities that strengthen parent-child bonds are many times lacking in families that include a child or parent with mental illness. Activity Groups in Family-Centered Treatment describes valuable parent-child occupation-based interventions with detailed examples of how they have been provided in therapy. This text provides an overview of the literature related to providing family-based psychiatric OT treatment for children and their families a framework for providing services rich descriptions of a parent-child activity group a parent-adolescent activity group and case studies of inpatient and home-based occupation based interventions.<br><br>Topics in Activity Groups in Family-Centered Treatment include:</p><ul> <li> an overview of theory and research literature on the nature of the interaction between parents and children with emotional disorders<br> </li> <li> detailed case studies of family challenges with mental illness<br> </li> <li> a framework for parent-child activity groups<br> </li> <li> a qualitative study of a parent-child activity group<br> </li> <li> analysis of the barriers that can arise in a parent-child activity group<br> </li> <li> clinical experiences leading a parent-adolescent activity group<br> </li> <li> analysis of the influences of culture within a parent-child activity group<br> </li> <li> a case study of the intervention for a depressed mother and her family<br> </li> <li> issues between parents and professionals when children are psychiatrically hospitalized<br><br> </li> </ul><p>Activity Groups in Family-Centered Treatment provides occupational therapists and other professionals who lead parent-child groups or who work with families that include a child or parent with mental illness with integral tools to effectively treat their clients.</p>