Cognitive Rehabilitation for Persons with Traumatic Brain Injury: A Functional Approach.This is an edited book with invited authors representing a diversity of professionals and expertise in providing services to persons with a traumatic brain injury Traumatic brain injury (TBI), traumatic injuries to the brain, also called intracranial injury, or simply head injury, occurs when a sudden trauma causes brain damage. TBI can result from a closed head injury or a penetrating head injury and is one of two subsets of acquired brain . Emphasis is placed on the cognitive rehabilitation cognitive rehabilitation, n therapy that connects memory failure with a person's relationship, anxiety, and self-concept issues. Has been used for traumatic brain injury. of these persons. The book is organized into four sections: (1) Foundations of Cognitive Rehabilitation; (2) Personality, Behavior, Outcome, and Holistic Intervention; (3) Interdisciplinary Approaches to Cognitive Rehabilitation; and (4) Rehabilitation rehabilitation: see physical therapy. in Community Settings. Good use of this material could be made by practitioners who are Providing one form of therapy or another to persons with T.B.I. These therapies could include psychotherapy psychotherapy, treatment of mental and emotional disorders using psychological methods. Psychotherapy, thus, does not include physiological interventions, such as drug therapy or electroconvulsive therapy, although it may be used in combination with such methods. , physical therapy, or other rehabilitation services. Many helpful ideas are found throughout the book that could be directly applied to whatever therapy might be offered at a given time. The book could be used as a resource. Each section and chapter stands pretty much on its own. However, it might be put to better use as a book of therapy and practice for application to persons with T.B,I., and may find its greatest usefulness in the day to day therapy offered to the client. The book begins with some basic issues related to cognitive rehabilitation, including its history, theory and practice of cognitive remediation, and needed research. It goes on to cover neurobehavioral outcome; cognition; language, attention, and information processing information processing: see data processing. information processing Acquisition, recording, organization, retrieval, display, and dissemination of information. Today the term usually refers to computer-based operations. ; Pharmacological aspects; pre-morbid psychosocial factors; obstacles to cognitive rehabilitation; and management of psychosocial behavior problems. Topics that are interdisciplinary in nature include compensation in post-acute head injury, retraining re·train tr. & intr.v. re·trained, re·train·ing, re·trains To train or undergo training again. re·train memory, computer applications, social skills training, group interventions, use of games in rehabilitation, and cognitive - communicative impairments in children and adolescents. Topics related to rehabilitation in community settings include cognitive remediation in the context of a community re-entry RE-ENTRY, estates. The resuming or retaking possession of land which the party lately had. 2. Ground rent deeds and leases frequently contain a clause authorizing the landlord to reenter on the non-payment of rent, or the breach of some covenant, when the program, rehabilitation in home and community settings, and rehabilitation in the work place. Practitioners and academics as well will benefit from the use of this book. It can provide excellent reference material and a guide to specific techniques useful in the cognitive rehabilitation of persons with traumatic brain injury. |
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