The Occupational Therapist's Workbook for Ensuring Clinical Competence - Paperback

by Marie Morreale (Author), Debbie Amini (Author)

The Occupational Therapist's Workbook for Ensuring Clinical Competence is designed to help occupational therapy students and new practitioners demonstrate the practical problem-solving and real-life clinical reasoning skills essential for fieldwork and clinical practice. This user-friendly resource helps the reader apply occupational therapy concepts, improve narrative and pragmatic reasoning skills, and measure attainment of knowledge and skills needed for successful transition to fieldwork and entry-level practice.

Inside The Occupational Therapist's Workbook for Ensuring Clinical Competence, a wide variety of client conditions, situations, and intervention options are presented for different practice areas. Knowledge and skills are assessed for fundamental aspects of occupational therapy such as: professionalism, ethical decision-making, evidence-based practice, evaluation and intervention planning, occupation-based interventions, effective communication, supervision, role delineation, activity analysis, cultural competence, interprofessional collaboration, group process, emerging practice areas, department management, safety, documentation, billing and reimbursement, and more.

Marie Morreale and Debbie Amini have incorporated numerous worksheets, learning activities, and worksheet answers in an easy-to-read format. The variety of assessment methods and learning activities used throughout the text stem from the authors' combined decades of teaching experience and include: case studies; vignettes; multiple choice, matching and true/false questions; fill in the blanks; experiential activities and more. Topics are broken down into smaller units and explained step-by-step to allow for easy independent study.Thoroughly explained answers are provided so that readers can check their responses with suggested best practice.These worksheets and learning activities are also useful as role-playing exercises, studying in small groups, and can aid in preparing for fieldwork or the national certification exam.

Included with the text are online supplemental materials for faculty use in the classroom.

The Occupational Therapist's Workbook for Ensuring Clinical Competence is the go-to text for occupational therapy students and faculty, as well as new occupational therapy practitioners who require the practical problem-solving skills and the clinical decision-making skills essential for fieldwork and clinical practice.

Author Biography

Marie J. Morreale, OTR/L, CHT, has been teaching occupational therapy assistant (OTA) students at Rockland Community College, State University of New York in Suffern, since 1998. As an adjunct faculty member, Marie teaches "Professional Issues and Documentation" and "Geriatric Principles." Over the years, she has also taught several other courses in the OTA program including "OT Skills," "Advanced OT Skills," "Therapeutic Activities," and "Advanced Therapeutic Activities." Marie has made significant contributions to curriculum development and also served as interim coordinator of the OTA Program.

Marie graduated summa cum laude from Quinnipiac College (now Quinnipiac University). She has experience working in a variety of occupational therapy practice settings, including inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation, long-term care, adult day care, home health, cognitive rehabilitation, and hand therapy. Marie has been a certified hand therapist for more than 20 years and also served several years on a home health professional advisory committee, consulting on quality assurance issues. Marie has written or coauthored several other occupational therapy texts, including Developing Clinical Competence: A Workbook for the OTA;The OTA's Guide to Documentation: Writing SOAP Notes (3rd ed.); and The OTA's Guide to Writing SOAP Notes (2nd ed.). In addition, she authored a chapter on documentation for The Occupational Therapy Manager (5th ed.), published several occupational therapy articles, and is the author of several online continuing education courses. Marie is active in her church community and enjoys anything travel related.

Debbie Amini, EdD, OTR/L, CHT, FAOTA, received her Bachelor of Science in Occupational Therapy from Quinnipiac University, her Masters of Education in Curriculum Instruction/Supervision from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, and her Doctorate of Education in Adult and Community College Education from North Carolina State University.

Dr. Amini joined the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA) as Director of Professional Development in 2014. Her previous employment experience includes clinical hand therapy practice, directing an occupational therapy assistant program, and working as an assistant professor of occupational therapy in an Masters of Occupational Therapy program.

Dr. Amini has served in multiple volunteer leadership positions with AOTA, including as Hand Rehabilitation Subsection Coordinator from 2002 to 2005; Physical Disabilities Special Interest Section Chairperson from 2005 to 2008; member of the AOTA's Commission on Practice from 2008 to 2011; and Chair of the AOTA Commission on Practice from 2011 to 2014.

Dr. Amini was the "Hands On" department columnist for ADVANCE for Occupational Therapy Practitioners from 1999 to 2011 and "Inside Occupation" from 2011 to 2014. She has authored several articles that have appeared in ADVANCE for Directors in Rehabilitation, the AOTA's Physical Diabetes Quarterly newsletter, OT Practice magazine, and TheAmerican Journal of Occupational Therapy. She has also written several online courses and textbook chapters. She currently serves on the editorial review board for TheOpenJournal of Occupational Therapy and Occupational Therapy in Health Care.

Dr. Amini has presented numerous times at the AOTA, the North Carolina Occupational Therapy Association, and American Society of Hand Therapists annual conferences and has conducted multiple 2-day regional workshops.