Cognitive Remediation for Brain Injury and Neurological Illness Real Life Changes /

• Main Author: Podd, Marvin H. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Subjects: Psychology.; Geriatrics.; Rehabilitation.; Health psychology.; Neuropsychology.; Health Psychology.; Geriatrics/Gerontology.

Planners, timers, and similar items have long been used to compensate for cognitive deficits after the brain recovers from injury or illness. Although such tools can be effective, they limit patients’ use of their own resources in their recovery. By contrast, cognitive remediation offers an alternat...