Clinical and professional reasoning in occupational therapy / edited by Barbara A. Boyt Schell and John W. Schell.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Unit I. Nature of professional reasoning -- Professional reasoning as the basis of practice -- Cognition in professional practice -- Culture, assumptions, and reasoning -- Embodied reasoning in professional practice -- An ecological model of professional reasoning -- Unit II. Aspects of professional reasoning -- Aspects of professional reasoning -- Scientific reasoning and evidence in practice -- Narrative reasoning -- Pragmatic reasoning -- Ethical reasoning -- Interactive reasoning -- Unit III. Professional reasoning in context -- Context and reasoning -- Interprofessional reasoning -- Clinical reasoning in acute care -- Neonatal intensive care -- Home modifications -- School-based practice -- Public education systems and populations -- Palliative and end-of-life care -- Screening and assessing older drivers -- Mental health -- Health promotion for community dwelling adults -- Supervision and the development of professional reasoning -- Unit IV. promoting effective professional reasoning -- Improving practice through reflective strategies -- Epistemology: knowing how you know -- Learning and teaching for reasoning -- Learning professional reasoning in practice through fieldwork -- Professional reasoning in occupational therapy management -- Research and scholarship in clinical and professional reasoning.

"Clinical and Professional Reasoning in Occupational Therapy, by Barb and John Schell, was a groundbreaking text when it first published - addressing the clinical reasoning process occupational therapists use when evaluating and treating patients. New texts have since published that address clinical reasoning from a practical perspective - ie, 'how-to' books for new OTs entering clinical practice - but the Schell text remains unique in analyzing the clinical reasoning process from a theoretical"-- Provided by publisher.