Children’s Social and Emotional Development Appears in Book

My copies of A]OTare becoming dog-eared since you instituted the Case Report section of the journal. The articles are quite helpful and have stimulated our team to be more resourceful in developing methods and modalities for providing active treatment to our clients. I hope to see this department continue. A]OT received only a few case report papers last year, not enough to publish one in each issue-a goal for 1990. Let's hear from others. Guy L. McCormack's article,, "Pain Management by Occupationall Therapists" (September 1988, pp.. 582-590), which reviewed the physiological mechanisms involved inn reducing pain, was timely andd reconfirming.. I have been treating postacute and chronic pain patients since 1984, working with an occupational health physician. During this time, I have gradually and successfully used many of the procedures described by Mr. McCormack, such as pressure to trigger points, acupressure, myofascial release , relaxation tapes, and visualiza-tion. I believe that reducing or managing pain is important in the realm of occupational therapy practice to allow patients to progress and increase their activity level in the occupational therapy clinic, at home, in the community, and at work. From my experience, occupational therapists working in physical disabilities or hand clinics or in work-hardening programs have difficulty increasing patients' activity levels due to the occurrence of pain, which could be successfully dealt with by the therapist at the time it occurs. Also, it could be used as a preliminary to the activity. In addition to those pain-reducing techniques mentioned in the article, there is cranial-sacral therapy. Thank you for including this article in A]OT A]OTArticles Helpful for Practitioners Interested in Research Beginning clinical research is a big step for any occupational therapy department. Staff members from Occupational Therapy Consultants, Inc., in Bridgewater, New Jersey, are currently planning to begin such a project. As part of the preliminary steps, a planning group has begun to meet and develop assignments for a needed literature review. Reading research articles as part of the literature review can prove a formidable task for those first attempting research. Two articles in the September 1988 issue of A]OT proved very valuable in helping the group move forward in a more knowledgeable way. The article by Stephen A. Heck, "The Effect of Purposeful Activity on Pain Tolerance" (pp. 577-581), was used as the basis for a srudy gUide in the companion article "How to Read a Research Paper" by Helen …