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Quick Reference Dictionary for Occupational Therapy (Jacobs, Quick Reference Dictionary for Occupational Therapy)

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This book has it all at your fingertips! An excellent dictionary for our profession and quick charts for maintaining competence in various areas of practice. It would have been especially useful at the start of my OT education as a reference/study guide, but is certainly useful to any practioner. It includes AOTA documents (Code of Ethics, etc.), as well as necessary and thoughtful interview/intervention questions in Spanish, Portugese, French, and German for building rapport and communicating with clients of various ethnicities. You won't regret getting this book!

As an OT student I thought this book would be helpful in tutorial sessions and as a quick lookup for unknown subjects. I haven't found it to be very useful yet and have opened it maybe 3 times in 5 months. I would recommend K.Reed's Quick Reference to OT. That book is more comprehensive and still defines the words as well as explains the problem in detail.

As a returning therapist who's been out of the field for a while, I wholeheartedly recommend this book. As the title implies, it is a DICTIONARY, and as such, defines terms. (I say this because the other reviewers were obviously looking for a different type of book, such as the equally excellent, Quick Reference to Occupational Therapy by Reed. When I was fresh out of OT school, I found that book very handy, and its appendices are great, too.) However, since I now need a dictionary tailored for OTs, this book is perfect for my purposes. And the appendices are extremely helpful.

So, if you took a long break from OT, are changing practice areas, or have noticed that terminology has changed since you graduated school, get this book. It will make reading charts and deciphering jargon at the clinic much easier. You might also want to get the Quick Reference to Occupational Therapy book by Reed, but note that it doesn't provide definitions, as it is not a dictionary.

I wish I had known of this book at the start of my OTA program. It has most everything in it and it's very helpful. There are even some things that I didn't know that will be useful when studying for the NBCOTA exam.

This is another book I purchased for my granddaughter for college. It also was in excellent condition, although advertised as used, and the purchase price was far below that at the college book store. I strongly recommend this method of purchasing college texts. I might also add that they were received within a few days of ordering.

I have owned this book for 1 month and it looks like I have owned it for 1 year. This book is an excellent resource for papers, take home tests, and to look up words during lecture. It is compact enough that you can carry it with you to class or to work. Because I am a full time student, wife, and mother I carry my books with me wherever I go. I sneak study sessions while waiting for appointments, carpool lines, and during child sport practices. Due to the extensive appendices I do NOT have to carry several books with me. It is an investment that can benefit you throughout your entire OT professional career!!!

This is a great book for OT students or for someone entering the field. Has just about everything you need to have at your finger tips. I would recommend this book to anyone in the field, after all you can't remember everything.

As a final year Occupational Therapy student from Great Britain, I purchased the book as I thought it may be helpful as a guide for looking up approaches/interventions etc. as well as including policies and ethics etc. The books ethics are etc. are similar to British therapists though there are many items that seem specific to America. I have not found the book very helpful and have only used it twice in total since I purchased it.

This book was assigned in my Fundamentals of OT class. We never used it in that class and I have never found ANY information I needed in it in any of my other OT classes.