This pocket-size reference(4.5x7") provides quick access to words, their definitions, and important resources used in everyday practice in occupational therapy (OT) and in the OT classroom. In this edition, some 3,600 terms (400 more than the last edition) are defined in alphabetical entries, and 60 appendices are presented (nine more than the previous edition). Appendices list and define laboratory values, standards, syndromes, precautions, and frames of reference used in occupational therapy, and provide checklists and useful foreign phrases to use with patients. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Karen Jacobs, EdD, OTR/L, CPE, FAOTA, is an occupational therapist and an ergonomist as well as a clinical professor of occupational therapy at Boston University, Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences Boston, MA. She is a former president and vice president of the American Occupational Therapy Association, an author of texts on work practice, the founding editor of the interdisciplinary and international journal, WORK: A Journal of Prevention, Assessment & Rehabilitation (IOS Press, The Netherlands), and is widely published. She is internationally recognized as an expert in ergonomics and health care marketing and has presented numerous workshops, keynote addresses, and training programs on these subjects. Professor Jacobs, who lives in Andover, MA, is married to Matthew Gold and is the mother of three children—Laela, Joshua, and Ariel. She balances work with occupations such as kayaking, gardening, travel, photography, and cross-country skiing. Laela Jacobs OTR/L, is currently practicing as a Rehab Manager at a sub-acute facility in Wrentham, MA. She received her degree in occupational therapy from Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, Tallahassee, FL. Laela, her husband Craig Simon, and their two dogs live in North Attleboro, MA. Her interests include theater, travel, gardening, and most importantly spending time with her family.

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