Clinical applications of problem-solving research in neuropsychological rehabilitation: addressing the subjective experience of cognitive deficits in outpatients with acquired brain injury.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The goal of this paper is to illustrate how the lessons learned in over 20 years of randomized clinical trials have advanced cognitive rehabilitation beyond traditional approaches to problem solving by more explicitly integrating subjective self-appraisal factors in routine clinical practice.

Results

The concept of problem orientation, as proposed by cognitive-behavioral psychologists, provides a much-needed framework for conceptualizing interventions to address the impact of subjective experience on cognitive functioning, within the context of cognitive remediation. By explicitly focusing on the beliefs, assumptions, and expectations that individuals with acquired brain injury have about their own cognitive functioning, the concept of problem orientation allows re

SUBMITTER: Rath JF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9728040 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature