Cognitive Rehabilitation

Issue title: Traumatic Brain Injury

Subtitle: Theory and Informed Practice

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Mazmanian, Paul E.

Affiliations: Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA

Abstract: Considerable evidence indicates that services intended to support cognitive rehabilitation are provided on a widespread basis by facilities serving brain injury survivors. The scope of services for cognitive rehabilitation therapy has not been circumscribed, nor has a parsimonious theory of cognitive rehabilitation been advanced to inform study and practice. Qualitative research identifying the techniques used; how they are used; and the outcomes of the applied techniques might enable generation of a theory to help define a discrete body of knowledge and skills associated with cognitive rehabilitation therapy. Having acquired that information, those who practice and study cognitive rehabilitation should be better able to guide the development of these services for those who survive brain injury.

DOI: 10.3233/NRE-1991-1310

Journal: NeuroRehabilitation, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 86-89, 1991