A Practical Approach to Interdisciplinary Complex Rehabilitation

Description:

The interdisciplinary team (IDT) approach is the most effective approach 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 work together 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.

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

Table Of Contents:

Introduction 
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 reflections 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