"Principles of Assessment for Occupational Therapists and
Physiotherapists" aims to provide a comprehensive text on
assessment, evaluation and outcome measurement for occupational
therapy and physiotherapy students, therapists, managers and
educators. The purpose of this book is to enable students of
occupational therapy and physiotherapy, as well as qualified
physiotherapists and occupational therapists, to understand the
complex art and science of assessment processes, to be familiar
with psychometric terms and able to identify the properties of
tests in order to select and confidently implement the use of
appropriate standardised tests and outcome measures in their
clinical practice and research.
Chapters focus on the following key features:
The importance of accurate assessment Methods of assessment
(informal versus standardised, self-report, proxy and
observational) Purposes of assessment (descriptive, discriminative,
predictive and evaluative) and timing assessments (initial,
baseline, monitoring and outcome) Standardisation, definitions of
psychometric terms and administering standardised tests Levels of
measurement (nominal, ordinal, interval and ratio) How models for
describing levels of function can help plan an assessment approach
Clinical reasoning Test critique, analysing your current assessment
process and how to implement the optimum assessment approach
The book explores the core principles that underpin effective
and efficient therapy assessment processes across a wide range of
diagnoses, age groups and practice settings. Examples of
standardised tests along with case vignettes and case histories are
used to help the reader apply these principles to
theirpractice.
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