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1. Rethinking Rehabilitation
Theory and Practice
Editors
Kathryn McPherson, Barbara E. Gibson and Alain Leplege
This book informs readers about how leading researchers are rethinking rehabilitation
research and practice. It offers challenges to dominant perspectives, in a diverse set of
contexts and wide array of topics. Each author proposes ways of thinking that are
informed by theory, philosophy, and/or history as well as empirical research. Rigorous
and provocative, this book presents chapters that model ways readers might advance
their own thinking, learning, practice, and research.
Key Features
 Extends the discussion of theory to many different areas of rehabilitation
practice and research
 Includes contributors from the US, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and
Europe
 Deals with the philosophical context along with science perspectives
Selected Contents
Foreword (by Derick Wade). Section I: Rethinking the Past and Re-envisaging the
Future. Rethinking Rehabilitation: Theory, Practice, History and the Future.
Conceptualizing Disability to Inform Rehabilitation: Historical and Epistemological
Perspectives. Rethinking Rehabilitation’s Assumptions: Challenging “Thinking-as-
usual” and Envisioning a Relevant Future. Rethinking “Normal Development” in
Children’s Rehabilitation. Section II: Philosophy in Action. Do Frogs Have Lips? An
Exploration of the Place of “Mind” in Rehabilitation. Rethinking Movement:
Postmodern Reflections on a Dominant Rehabilitation Discourse. Therapeutic
Landscape: Rethinking “Place” in Client-Centered Brain Injury Rehabilitation.
Rethinking Social-Relational Perspectives in Rehabilitation: Traumatic Brain Injury as a
Case Study. Rehabilitation and Recovery of Self-Identity. Section III: Rethinking Policy,
Practice, and Research. “This unfortunate young girl...:” Rethinking a Necessary
Relationship between Disability Studies and Rehabilitation. Rethinking Measurement
in Rehabilitation. Te Waka Oranga: Bringing Indigenous Knowledge Forward. Who’s
Behavior Matters? Rethinking Practitioner Behavior and Its Influence on Rehabilitation
Outcomes. Rehab as an Existential, Social Learning Process: A Thought Experiment.
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Catalog no. K23714
March 2015, 320 pp.
ISBN: 978-1-4822-4920-0
$99.95 / £63.99