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Cognitive rehabilitation therapy - Coggle Diagram
Cognitive rehabilitation therapy
cognitive effects of brain injury not well understood
cognitive impairment
neglect/inattention
memory
apraxia/dyspraxia
concentration
attention
executive functioning
cognitive, emotional and behavioural problems are common after acquired brain injury
cog problems after injury or illness
traumatic brain injury
stroke
subarachnoid haemorrhage
anoxic brain injury
brain tumours and cysts
excessive and prolonged drug and alcohol abuse
encephalitis
multiple sclerosis
parkinson's disease
alzheimer's disease and other dementias
aids
human variance CJD
schizophrenia
depression
cognition = ability to make sense of the environment (outer and inner)
CRT = the process of relearning cog skills that have been lost or altered - if skills cannot be relearned new ones have to be taught to enable the person to compensate for lost cog functions.
aim -> improve ability to carry out everyday tasks
integrated holistic approach - bottom-up and top-down
4 components:
education about cog weaknesses and strengths
development of skills through direct retraining or practising the underlying cog skills
external and internal compensatory strategies
application in everyday life, using functional tasks to improve cog skills