To help you conduct accurate searches we have provided some further information about topics included under each heading.
| Heading |
Description |
| Assistive technology / adaptive equipment |
Item, piece of equipment, or product system used to maintain or improve
a client’s functional ability (eg computer, environmental control unit,
wheelchair, seating and basic self-care equipment). |
| Basic activities of daily living |
Interventions designed to improve or enable self-maintenance such as
showering, dressing, toileting, and eating. Also known as personal or
primary activities of daily living. |
| Behavioural interventions |
Interventions designed to modify behaviour. Strategies for children and
adults are included. |
| Carers |
Interventions designed, for example, to improve the performance,
function or quality of life of informal or formal carers. Includes support
groups, education and training. |
| Case management |
A service model referring to the assignment of a healthcare provider to
coordinate and provide individualised service delivery. |
| Cognition |
Interventions designed to improve or optimise cognitive skills,
including memory, orientation, attention, reasoning and problem solving.
Includes cognitive development, remediation of cognitive skills, and
compensatory strategies such as diary use. |
| Community living skills |
Interventions designed to improve or enable the performance of community
living skills such as shopping, banking, budgeting, use of public
transport or driving. |
| Complementary therapies |
Includes therapies such as aromatherapy, horticultural therapy, and pet
therapy. |
| Consumer education |
Educational interventions for clients, their carers, family or parents
intended, to enhance, for example, skills and knowledge, or to change
behaviour and attitudes. |
| Counselling |
Interventions that use interpersonal relationships to provide support
and enable people to resolve crises, increase their ability to solve
problems and make decisions. |
| Creative therapies |
Interventions using creative modalities such as music, dance therapy,
art, and craft. |
| Developmental therapy |
Interventions designed to facilitate development for children and
adults. Includes neurodevelopmental therapy, sensory integration and
vestibular stimulation. |
| Ergonomics |
Interventions designed to improve the fit between the person and task at
work or home. Also referred to as human factors, or human engineering. |
| Exercise/ Strength training |
Interventions designed to improve or maintain general health and
fitness, such as strength training, therapeutic exercise, and aerobic and
fitness training. |
| Hand therapy |
Includes all aspects of hand therapy intervention such as splinting,
passive and active exercises, and mobilisation. |
| Health promotion / risk assessment |
Interventions aimed at promoting health or preventing
illness/disability. |
| Home modification / access |
Interventions designed to enhance performance, minimise or prevent risks
and hazards, or improve mobility in the home, property, workplace, or
health facility. Includes, for example, ramps, rails, and stair-climbers. |
| Instrumental activities of daily living |
Interventions designed to optimise performance in activities in and
around the home such as cleaning, laundry, and meal preparation. Also
known as extended or secondary activities of daily living. |
| Leisure / recreation |
Intervention designed to improve the performance, uptake or
participation in hobbies, leisure or recreational activities. Also refers
to the therapeutic use of these activities. |
| Movement training |
Interventions designed to elicit or improve motor control. Includes
motor relearning, constraint induced movement therapy, and facilitation
techniques such as PNF, Brunnstrom, Bobath, and functional electrical
stimulation (FES). |
| Perception |
Interventions designed to develop or remediate a person’s perceptual
skills (that is, the ability to recognise and interpret sensory stimuli). |
| Physical modalities / orthotics / splinting |
Interventions using physical modalities such as splinting, casting,
orthotics, pressure garments, compression bandaging, scar management
techniques, transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS), functional
electrical stimulation (FES), EMG, hydrotherapy, and biofeedback. |
| Positioning |
Refers to the positioning of a person or a part of his or her body for
therapeutic purposes. |
| Play |
Therapeutic use of play or interventions designed to develop play
skills. |
| Psychosocial techniques |
Psychosocial interventions such as cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT),
anger management, group discussion, social skills training, and relaxation
training. |
| Purposeful activity |
Evaluation of the effectiveness of purposeful activity as a motivating
therapeutic medium, as opposed to non-purposeful activity. Purposeful activities
include those that have an inherent goal and are relevant and meaningful
to the person, beyond the function required to carry out the activity. |
| Relaxation / stress management |
Interventions designed to reduce anxiety, muscular tension, and stress.
Includes all forms of relaxation and stress management techniques such as
muscular relaxation, and the use mental strategies (e.g. imagery). |
| Sensation |
Interventions such as sensory retraining, desensitisation, sensory
integrative therapy and the utilisation of sensory modalities. |
| Service delivery |
Evaluation of methods and models of service delivery for example,
individual vs. groups, hospital vs. community care, peer-led programs, and
length of interventions. |
| Skill acquisition / training |
Interventions designed to help a person develop new skill/s, relearn or
refine skill/s. |
| Social skills |
Interventions designed to enhance social skills. Includes interventions
such as assertiveness training, anger management, and conflict resolution. |
| Soft tissue therapy |
Interventions designed to prevent, reverse or reduce contractures, pain
or stiffness. Includes interventions such as prolonged muscle stretching,
massage, and myofascial techniques. |
| Vocational retraining / work |
Interventions designed to improve work potential or performance.
Includes vocational retraining, occupational rehabilitation,
workplace/industrial issues, volunteering, and occupational health and
safety training and education. |
| Other |
Interventions that do not belong to any of the above categories. |