Edited by Mary Jo McGuire, MS, OTR/L, FAOTA, and Elin Schold Davis, OTR/L, CDRS
The range of issues for driving and community mobility is vast and can extend across the lifespan. Occupational therapy professionals who are generalists or specialists have the knowledge and skills to address the important IADL of community mobility, including driving. Therapists, through evaluation, intervention, and consultation, can address not only driving and community mobility skills but also the underlying skills (visual, motor, or cognitive) and environmental and other contextual factors that enable and empower a person to participate in the community.
This text, which is also available as a Self-Paced Clinical Course (earn 2 AOTA CEUs [25 NBCOT PDUs, 20 contact hours]), provides strategies to address community and driving across occupational therapy practice areas and settings, including administration and management, schools, acute care hospitals, rehabilitation centers and skilled nursing facilities, and outpatient clinics, and with clients with various disabilities or difficulties, including developmental, physical, sensory processing, vision, and mental health.
Driving and Community Mobility: Occupational Therapy Strategies Across the Lifespan, which gathers researchers and clinicians in a team effort to offer expert guidance for occupational theray's work in the ever-developing practice area of driving and community mobility, includes a flash drive containing client resources, fact sheets, guide, assessments, articles, and Web resources.
After reading this material, readers will be able to:
- Recognize why it is important for all occupational therapists to address community mobility and driving across the life span and in different practice settings
- Recognize the imperative to broaden the focus from driving rehabilitation toward a more comprehensive consideration of community mobility at the individual, community, and societal levels
- Recognize that addressing driving and community mobility as a routine part of occupational therapy practice cannot be accomplished working in isolation and identify a range of stakeholders who may play a role in this important practice area
- Recognize that there are often unspoken psychosocial issues related to one's sense of autonomy and self-determination that are associated with issues related to driving and community mobility
- Recognize that occupational therapists have an ethical responsibility, through the evaluation process, to identify impairments in occupational performance that may correlate with driving risks and to inform clients (and caregivers or significant others, if applicable), even if they do not have a legal responsibility to report them to the state
Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction to Community Mobility and Driving
Chapter 2. The Big Picture: Comprehensive Mobility Options
Chapter 3. Welcome to the Team! Who Are the Stakeholders?
Chapter 4. Understanding Psychosocial Needs and Issues Related to Driving and Community Mobility and the Role of Occupational Therapy
Chapter 5. Occupational Therapy's Ethical Obligations to Address Driving and Community Mobility
Chapter 6. Analyzing the Complex Instrumental Activities of Daily Living of Driving and Community Mobility
Chapter 7. Cognition: A Vital Component to Driving and Community Mobility
Chapter 8. Vision and Driving
Chapter 9. Occupational Therapy Driving Evaluation: Using Evidence-Based Screening and Assessment Tools
Chapter 10. Use of Adaptive Equipment to Compensate for Impairments in Motor Performance Skills and Client Factors
Chapter 11. Clinical Reasoning Process in the Comprehensive Driving Evaluation
Chapter 12. Behind the Wheel: Driver Rehabilitation Intervention
Chapter 13. Assessing, Treating, and Preparing Youth With Special Needs for Driving and Community Mobility
978-1-56900-335-0, 432 pages, 2012