Main description:

Grounded in cutting-edge knowledge about cognitive function and recovery from brain injury, this practical reference and text builds on the authors' influential earlier work, Optimizing Cognitive Rehabilitation. It incorporates major advances in the field to provide a new framework for assessing patients and developing individualized rehabilitation plans. The distinguished authors present principles and procedures for promoting engagement, teaching cognitive strategies and discrete facts and routines, introducing external cognitive aids, and supporting patients' social competence. Additional topics include considerations for using computer-based training, managing functional cognitive symptoms, and providing cognitive rehabilitation in the inpatient setting. The book features detailed case illustrations and filled-out examples of 19 reproducible planning and progress monitoring forms. Blank forms can be downloaded and printed in a convenient 8 1/2" x 11" size.

Contents:

I. Foundations
1. Introduction
2. Cognition: What Clinicians Need to Know
3. Practicing Psychological Mindedness in Cognitive Rehabilitation, Katharine Seagly, Brigid Waldron-Perrine, McKay Moore Sohlberg, Rose Dunn, Pauline Mashima, Diane Paul, & Kelly Ann Pena
4. Applying RTSS and Systematic Instruction to Cognitive Rehabilitation
5. The PIE Framework: A Roadmap for Intervention
II. Intervention
6. Training Discrete Facts and Routines
7. Cognitive Strategy Instruction
8. External Cognitive Aid Instruction
9. Supporting Social Competence after Brain Injury
III. Special Considerations
10. Cognitive Rehabilitation in the Inpatient Setting, Tessa Hart, Mary K. Ferraro, & Amanda R. Rabinowitz
11. Computer-Based Cognitive Rehabilitation
12. Cognitive Rehabilitation for Functional Cognitive Symptoms, Rose Dunn, Pauline Mashima, Katharine Seagly, Brigid Waldron-Perrine, Diane Paul, McKay Moore Sohlberg, & Kelly Ann Pena
APPENDIX A. Glossary of Key Memory and Learning Terms
APPENDIX B. Mindfulness Resources