Psychiatry and Psychology: Physical Medicine / Rehabilitation

Digging into Nature: Outdoor Activities for Happier and Healthier by Pooja Sarin Tandon; Danette Swanson Glassy, 2024 You know your child would benefit from more time spent outside and less spent on a screen. But how important is it really? And what can you do to make it happen? In Digging Into Nature, pediatricians and nature advocates Drs. Pooja Sarin Tandon and Danette Swanson Glassy make the evidence-based case that your whole family will be happier, healthier, and more resilient when you spend time in nature. They offer a wealth of suggestions for age-appropriate, nature-based activities and guidance to help prioritize outside time. In addition to being doctors, Drs. Tandon and Glassy are also busy parents and grandparents. They recognize that your family might face challenges with regard to time, access, and more, when trying to get more green time. Their inclusive approach will help you address those obstacles will ensure your children reap the gifts that the great outdoors offers.

Exercise and Mental Health by Josh M. Cisler; Kevin M. Crombie; Thomas G. Adams, 2024 This edited volume describes key domains of the emerging research literature linking exercise and mental health. The volume is divided into three sections. The first section provides an overview of foundational knowledge regarding basic processes of exercise, including neurocircuitry, neurotransmitter, and immunology systems. The second section describes emerging research on the acute impact of exercise on affect, mood, and cognition. The third section explores the role of exercise in the etiology and treatment of related mental and physical health disorders, including depression, PTSD, eating disorders, and autoimmune disorders. Collectively, this volume provides readers with foundational knowledge of what exercise is, the basic brain, behavioral and cognitive processes engaged by exercise, and a role of exercise in developing and treating mental health disorders.

Managing Challenging Behaviour Following Acquired Brain Injury by Nick Alderman; Andrew Worthington, 2024 This empirically-based book provides conceptual knowledge and practical advice to enable clinicians to implement evidence-based methods drawn from learning theory for managing the catastrophic effects of challenging behaviour as an enduring outcome of acquired brain injury (ABI).

Occupational Therapy for Mental Health, 3rd ed. by Catana Brown; Jaime Munoz; Virginia C. Stoffel, 2025 Person-centered, recovery-oriented, occupation-based Here's practical information on the theories, evidence, assessments, and interventions that are crucial to effective occupational therapy mental health practice. Students will gain an understanding of the lived experience and an evidence-based, recovery-oriented perspective with guidance on how to be a psychosocial practitioner in any setting. They'll understand the recovery process for all areas of an individual's life--physical, emotional, spiritual, and mental--and know how to manage co-occurring conditions. New! Focus on the continuum of psychosocial care for all clients across all practice settings progresses from healthy functioning to mental illness to recovery and flourishing. New! Guidance on how to be a psychosocial OT practitioner in any setting with all clients New! Eight chapters discuss: the mental health continuum, trauma-informed practice, chronic conditions, social determinants, natural environments, virtual environments, suicide prevention, and connectedness and belonging. New! "Being a Psychosocial Practitioner Profile" presents examples of the clinical reasoning practitioners have used to support the psychosocial health of clients in various practice settings. New! "Practitioner Profile" vignettes provide a window into a typical day of an OT in specific settings. New! "Mental Illness in Culture, Politics, and Society" highlights current events, art, books, films, organizations, and political issues that concern individuals with mental illness. New! 32 online videos feature practitioners, students, and clients discussing their personal experiences across the mental health continuum. Uses the Person-Environment-Occupation (PEO) model as a framework to promote full participation in the lives of individuals with mental illness and those struggling with psychosocial issues related to their disabilities. Features first-person "The Lived Experience narratives that give voice to the experience of living with a mental illness. Incorporates "Photo Voice" features, a blend of photography and personal stories that enable individuals to record their visions and experiences to promote dialogue about important issues. Promotes best practices with "Evidence-Based Practice "boxes that synthesize significant research and implications for practice.

Textbook of Traumatic Brain Injury, 3rd ed. by Jonathan M. Silver; Thomas W. McAllister; David B. Arciniegas, 2019 Despite the increased public awareness of traumatic brain injury (TBI), the complexities of the neuropsychiatric, neuropsychological, neurological, and other physical consequences of TBI of all severities across the lifespan remain incompletely understood by patients, their families, healthcare providers, and the media. Keeping pace with advances in the diagnosis, treatment, and science of TBI, the Textbook of Traumatic Brain Injury, Third Edition, comprehensively fills this gap in knowledge. Nearly all 50 chapters feature new authors, all of them experts in their field. Chapters new to this edition include biomechanical forces, biomarkers, neurodegenerative dementias, suicide, endocrine disorders, chronic disease management, and social cognition. An entirely new section is devoted to the evaluation and treatment of mild TBI, including injuries in athletes, military service members and veterans, and children and adolescents. These chapters join newly updated sections on the assessment and treatment of the cognitive, emotional, behavioral, and other physical sequelae of TBI. The Textbook of Traumatic Brain Injury is a must-read for all of those working in any of the multitude of disciplines that contribute to the care and rehabilitation of persons with brain injury. This new volume is also a potentially useful reference for policymakers in both the public and private sectors.