@article{ref1,
title="Functional assessment in mental health: lessons from occupational therapy",
journal="Dialogues in clinical neuroscience",
year="2016",
author="Rogers, Joan C. and Holm, Margo B.",
volume="18",
number="2",
pages="145-154",
abstract="Occupational therapists have been conducting functional assessments since World War I, and this accumulated experience has taught us several critical lessons. First, a comprehensive profile of a patient's functioning requires multiple assessment methods. Second, assessment content and measurement constructs must change with the times. Third, technology can enhance and extend functional assessment. Fourth, performance-based assessments of everyday activities can also be used to measure body functions/impairments. However, while deconstructing activities into body functions/impairments is possible, the results do not reflect patients' abilities to integrate the cognitive, motor, sensory and affective functions necessary to complete a complex activity. Finally, the differential complexity of everyday activities that a patient can master or successfully complete can also provide a ruler with which to measure progress. KEYWORDS: functional assessment; mental health; occupational therapy; performance assessment<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1294-8322",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}