A PRACTICAL APPROACH TO INTERDISCIPLINARY COMPLEX REHABILITATION

1. Complex rehabilitation in an interdisciplinary team context
2. Medicial management in rehabilitation
3. The role and impact of the nurse in rehabilitation
4. 24 hour approach to physical management
5. Adjusting to life after illness or injury
6. Mental health in complex rehabilitation
7. Challenging behaviour in complex rehabilitation
8. Cognition; Assessment and Rehabilitation
9. Communiction disorders
10. Speech and Language therapy; dysphagia
11. Prolonged disorders of consciousness
12. Nutrition and dietetics in rehabilitation
13. Vocational rehabilitation
14. A patients perspective (TBC once proposal approved. Two patient’s have been approached and expressed interest).
15. Supporting the socioeconomic needs of patients and their families within the context of a complex rehabilitation setting. Creating opportunities through collaboration, rehabilitation and beyond.

The interdisciplinary team (IDT) approach is the most effective approach in complex physical rehabilitation - but implementing a successful IDT can be challenging. This new book will help readers to understand more about the variety of professions that contribute to successful IDT working and how team members work together for the benefit of the rehabilitation patient and their personalised goals.
This is a comprehensive, practical, evidence-based guide to complex rehabilitation from an IDT perspective, exploring the dynamic and diverse roles and challenges of the team. The fifteen chapters are written by clinicians who are highly experienced across a range of disciplines and settings, from early acute rehabilitation to community rehabilitation.
A Practical Approach to Interdisciplinary Complex Rehabilitation will be an invaluable resource for all members of the team, including medical, nursing, dietetics, neuropsychiatry, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, psychology, rehabilitation coordination, speech and language therapy, and vocational rehabilitation therapy.

Features:
• Covers a wide range of different complex rehabilitation settings and clinical conditions
• Reflective questions in each chapter to inform practice within an IDT
• User-friendly and easy to read
• Case studies explore how a successful IDT works in practice