Cognitive Rehabilitation

Conceptualization and Intervention

Lance E. Trexler (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

292 Seiten

2012 | Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1982
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
978-1-4684-4252-6 (ISBN)

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The present volume has come about through an awareness of the absence of any cohesive and substantive source on the treatment of cognitive dysfunction following brain insult. I initiated the devel opment of our annual symposium Models and Techniques of Cognitive Rehabilitation, on which the present volume is based, so as to educate myself, as well as others, about the state of the art in modifying cognitive processes in the brain, injured. I became aware of the need for interventive strategies for the brain, injured while a graduate student. Brain functions had, for a long time, always fascinated me, but from an academic perspective. I was confronted with the clinical consequences of brain injury while administering batteries of neuro psychological tests, and this experience added another dimension to my interest in brain functions. I felt grossly inadequate because I was able to rather eloquently describe changes in brain-behavior relations with neuropsychological tests, but could only generate re commendations based solely on the use of compensatory strategies and occasionally on some unfounded, and probably naive, remedial guess. A literature search at this time yielded devastating, little informa tion. The next several years were characterized by a pseudo-obsession, occurring at times without total awareness, with methods and tech niques which might alter impaired brain-behavior relations. Completing graduate school, however, required that these thoughts take a secondary position relative to more typical graduate student thoughts.

I: Introductory Considerations.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Neuropsychological Assessment of Brain Behavior Relationships: An Introduction.- 3. Behavioral and Cognitive Deficits in Cerebrovascular Accident and Closed Head Injury: Implications for Cognitive Rehabilitation.- 4. Emotional Consequences of Brain Injury.- Concluding Remarks.- II: Conceptualizing Cognitive Dysfunction.- 5. Principles of Cognitive Rehabilitation.- 6. A Conceptual Framework for Interventive Cognitive Neuropsychology.- 7. The Relevance of Brain-Behavior Relationships for Rehabilitation.- 8. Language-Cognitive Disorganization Following Closed Head Injury: A Conceptualization.- 9. Cognitive Perceptual Motor Evaluation Research Findings for Adult Head Injuries.- 10. Cognitive and Neuropsychological Aspects of Affective Change Following Traumatic Brain Injury.- Concluding Remarks.- III: Interventive Strategies.- 11. The Systematic Remediation of Specific Disorders: Selected Applications of Methods Derived in a Clinical Research Setting.- 12. Techniques and Application of Simultaneous Information Processing.- 13. The Retraining of Frontal Lobe Dysfunction.- 14. The Use of Electronic Games in Cognitive Rehabilitation.- Concluding Remarks.- Contributors.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	22.3.2012
Zusatzinfo	2 Illustrations, black and white; 292 p. 2 illus.
Verlagsort	New York, NY
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
ISBN-10	1-4684-4252-X / 146844252X
ISBN-13	978-1-4684-4252-6 / 9781468442526
Zustand	Neuware