An interdisciplinary team (IDT) approach is most effective in complex physical rehabilitation, but implementing a successful IDT can be challenging. This new book will help readers to understand more about the variety of professions that contribute to successful IDT working and how team members collaborate for the benefit of the rehabilitation patient and their personalised goals.
This is a comprehensive, practical, evidence-based guide to complex rehabilitation from an IDT perspective, exploring the dynamic and diverse roles and challenges of the team. The fifteen chapters are written by clinicians who are highly experienced across a range of disciplines and settings, from early acute rehabilitation to community rehabilitation.
A Practical Approach to Interdisciplinary Complex Rehabilitation will be an invaluable resource for all members of the team, including medical, nursing, dietetics, neuropsychiatry, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, psychology, rehabilitation coordination, speech and language therapy, and vocational rehabilitation therapy.
Key Features
- Covers a wide range of different complex rehabilitation settings and clinical conditions
- Reflective questions in each chapter to inform practice within an IDT
- User-friendly and easy to read
- Case studies explore how a successful IDT works in practice
Contributors
Acknowledgements
1 Complex rehabilitation in an interdisciplinary team context
Jo Haworth and Helen O’Leary
2 Medical management in rehabilitation
Helen Banks and Ganesh Bavikatte
3 The role, impact, and re?ections of the rehabilitation nurse
Nicola Hill
4 Prolonged disorders of consciousness
Mary Ankers
5 24-hour approach to physical management
Emily Wilson-Meredith and Emily Low
6 Adjusting to life after illness or injury
Cara Pelser
7 Mental health in complex rehabilitation
Antonio Swaraj DaCosta and Jon Alan Smith
8 Working with behaviour that challenges
Peter Kinsella
9 Cognition; an assessment and rehabilitation
Nicola Branscombe, Stephen Mullin, Cara Pelser, and Wendy Owen
10 Communication disorders in rehabilitation: an interdisciplinary approach
Elaine Bailey and Lisa Barklin
11 Dysphagia in rehabilitation: an interdisciplinary approach
Elaine Bailey and Lisa Barklin
12 Nutrition and dietetics in rehabilitation
Joanne Sim and Rachel K. Taylor
13 Early vocational rehabilitation within an interdisciplinary context
Ray Langford
14 A patient’s perspective
Elly Milton and Marie Milton
15 Supporting the socioeconomic needs of patients and their families within the context of a complex rehabilitation setting: creating opportunities through collaboration, rehabilitation, and beyond
Claire Hendry and Erin M. Beal
16 Conclusion
Cara Pelser, Angela Harrison, Ganesh Bavikatte, and Helen Banks
Index
excellent resource for rehabilitation
a very good one to read and keep as a resource - across different modules in rehabilitation