Recreational Therapy & the Int

This book includes all of the codes in the 2016 version of the ICF. There is an overview of each of the ICF’s four sections, Body Functions, Body Structure, Activities and Participation, and Environmental Factors, plus a description of Personal Factors. The purpose and scoring of each section are described with recreational therapy examples. Each chapter in the four sections is covered in more detail with a description of the code set, more detailed scoring examples, an assessment overview, and treatment directions. An evidence review demonstrates the efficacy of treating each set of codes.For each code, the book provides the full text of the code, describes the code’s relevance to recreational therapy practice, explains the assessment process and how to score the code, introduces the reader to code-related treatment directions and adaptations, and cross references the code to the other two books in this series (Recreational Therapy for Specific Diagnoses and Conditions and Recreational Therapy Basics, Techniques, and Interventions).

Heather Porter is a faculty member in the Rehabilitation Sciences Department at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA. She has a strong clinical background in inpatient and outpatient physical rehabilitation and has been teaching recreational therapy in higher education for over 18 years. She is committed to strengthening recreational therapy research and disseminating research information to practitioners, consumers, payers, legislators, and the general public. Most notably, she coordinates an annual Recreational Therapy Evidence-Based Practice Conference and maintains an open-access database for recreational therapy research and resources that has been utilized by over 60 countries. Dr. Porter also provides consultations to recreational therapy academic programs on how to integrate evidence-based research into coursework, and is recognized as a leader in the community seeking to integrate the World Health Organization s International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health into healthcare practice.