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Neuropsychological Rehabilitation

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Barbara A. Wilson
Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Medical Research Council, Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge CB2 2QQ, United Kingdom; email: barbara.wilson@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk

Annu. Rev. Clin. Psychol. 2008. 4:14162 First published online as a Review in Advance on December 11, 2007 The Annual Review of Clinical Psychology is online at http://clinpsy.annualreviews.org This articles doi: 10.1146/annurev.clinpsy.4.022007.141212 Copyright c 2008 by Annual Reviews. All rights reserved 1548-5943/08/0427-0141$20.00

Key Words
brain injury, cognition, emotion, psychosocial, holistic programs

Abstract
Neuropsychological rehabilitation (NR) is concerned with the amelioration of cognitive, emotional, psychosocial, and behavioral decits caused by an insult to the brain. Major changes in NR have occurred over the past decade or so. NR is now mostly centered on a goal-planning approach in a partnership of survivors of brain injury, their families, and professional staff who negotiate and select goals to be achieved. There is widespread recognition that cognition, emotion, and psychosocial functioning are interlinked, and all should be targeted in rehabilitation. This is the basis of the holistic approach. Technology is increasingly used to compensate for cognitive decits, and some technological aids are discussed. Evidence for effective treatment of cognitive, emotional, and psychosocial difculties is presented, models that have been most inuential in NR are described, and the review concludes with guidelines for good practice.

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Contents
INTRODUCTION: WHAT IS NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL REHABILITATION? . . . . . . . . . . . . HOW HAS NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL REHABILITATION CHANGED IN RECENT YEARS? . . . . . . . . . . . Goal Setting to Plan Rehabilitation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cognitive, Emotional, and Psychosocial Decits are Interlinked . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Increasing Use of Technology in Neuropsychological Rehabilitation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rehabilitation Needs a Broad Theoretical Base . . . . . . . . . . . . . . COGNITIVE ASPECTS OF NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL REHABILITATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . EMOTIONAL ASPECTS OF NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL REHABILITATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . PSYCHOSOCIAL ASPECTS OF NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL REHABILITATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . MODELS AND THEORETICAL APPROACHES CONTRIBUTING TO NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL REHABILITATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . GUIDELINES FOR GOOD PRACTICE IN NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL REHABILITATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . SUMMARY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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several cognitive problems such as poor attention, poor memory, and planning and organizational difculties, together with some emotional problems such as anxiety, depression, or in some cases, post-traumatic stress disorder. The patient may exhibit behavior problems such as poor self-control or anger outbursts and may experience some subtle motor difculties leading to reduced stamina and unsteady gait, as well as problems connected with social skills and relationships. In addition, the patients family members may be unable to comprehend what has happened to the person they once felt they knew and understood, and the patient will probably struggle with issues connected with the continuation of work or education. Tables 1 and 2 show the main patient groups seen by neuropsychologists working in rehabilitation and the main problems these patients face. We can dene neuropsychology as the study of the relationship between brain and behavior. One of the major differences between academic neuropsychologists engaged in rehabilitation research and clinical neuropsychologists working in rehabilitation centers is the manner in which the needs of brain-injured people are determined. Academic neuropsychologists believe that detailed assessments informed by theoretical models can highlight areas that require rehabilitation. Thus, testing of different components contained in a model of language can identify a particular decit as the area to work on in rehabilitation (Caramazza &
Table 1 Main patient groups seen by neuropsychologists working in rehabilitation Main groups seen for rehabilitation Traumatic brain injury Stroke (cerebrovascular accident; CVA) Infections of the brain (e.g., encephalitis) Hypoxic brain damage Other groups sometimes seen Progressive conditions (e.g., Alzheimers disease, multiple sclerosis) Cerebral tumors Epilepsy (idiopathic)

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Most people receiving rehabilitation for the consequences of brain injury have both cognitive and noncognitive problems. A typical patient in a rehabilitation center has
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Hillis 1993). Clinical neuropsychologists, on the other hand, are less likely to determine rehabilitation needs through theoretically informed models and are more likely to target real-life problems identied by patients and their families. As discussed below, both approaches play a part in the rehabilitation of individuals who have sustained an insult to the brain. A good denition of rehabilitation is provided by McLellan (1991). He suggests that rehabilitation is a two-way, interactive process whereby people who are disabled by injury or disease work together with professional staff, relatives, and members of the wider community to achieve their optimum physical, psychological, social, and vocational well-being (McLellan 1991). Using McLellans denition as a guide, we can dene cognitive rehabilitation as a process whereby people with brain injury work together with professional staff and others to remediate or alleviate cognitive decits arising from a neurological insult. Although cognitive rehabilitation is often a major part of the work of clinical neuropsychologists, they are also increasingly involved in a wider range of issues. Thus, it could be argued, neuropsychological rehabilitation (NR) is broader than cognitive rehabilitation, as it is concerned with the amelioration of cognitive, emotional, psychosocial, and behavioral decits caused by an insult to the brain. McLellan (1991) believed that rehabilitation, unlike surgery or drugs, is not something that is done to or given to individuals. Instead, the disabled person is part of a two-way interactive process. This view reected a growing change in rehabilitation. For many years, persons with a disability were told what to expect in and from rehabilitation; the rehabilitation staff determined what areas to work on, what goals to set, and what was and was not achievable. Sometime in the 1980s, the philosophy began to change, at least in some centers, so that in many rehabilitation programs today, clients and families are asked about their expectations, and rehabilitation goals are discussed and negotiated between all parties

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Problems faced by survivors of brain injury B. Typical cognitive problems Memory Attention Communication Planning Organization Reasoning Perception Spatial awareness D. Typical behavior problems

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A. Problems faced by survivors of brain injury Motor Sensory Cognitive Behavioral Social Emotional Pain Fatigue, etc. C. Typical emotional and psycho-social problems Anxiety Depression Anger Fear Social isolation Grief Poor self-esteem Lack of condence

Temper outbursts Shouting Swearing Physical aggression Disinhibition Poor self control Refusal to cooperate, etc.

involved. The focus of treatment is on improving aspects of everyday life and, as Ylvisaker & Feeney (2000, p. 13) say, rehabilitation needs to involve personally meaningful themes, activities, settings and interactions. An example of this is provided by Wilson et al. (2002), who describe the treatment of a man with both a stroke and a head injury. One of this mans goals was to y his model helicopter againan important goal for him that would never have been considered 30 years ago. Tate et al. (2003), in descriptions of their service for people with brain injury, also imply that partnership is important, and Clare (2007) describes how people with dementia are encouraged to select their own targets for treatments. This is a much healthier state of affairs than providing clients with experimental or articial material on which to work. Motivation is likely to be increased because all those involved are working on real-life problems, which also prevents generalization difculties. Because the ultimate goal of rehabilitation is to enable people with disabilities to function as adequately as possible in their own, most appropriate, environments (Ben-Yishay 1996), real-life issues
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NR: neuropsychological rehabilitation Goal: the state (or change in state) that an intervention or course of action intends to achieve Stroke: a brain injury caused by a sudden interruption of blood ow

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should be at the forefront of rehabilitation programs.


Acquired brain injury: a nondegenerative injury to the brain that has occurred since birth

HOW HAS NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL REHABILITATION CHANGED IN RECENT YEARS?


In some ways, NR today is similar to that provided to soldiers in Germany in World War I and in Russia and the United Kingdom in World War II. In their historical review of NR in Germany, Poser et al. (1996) remind us, Many of the rehabilitation procedures developed in special military hospitals during World War I are still in use today in modern rehabilitationat least to some extent (p. 259). The vocational rehabilitation described by Poppelreuter in 1917 (translated by Zihl & Weiskrantz 1991) is not unlike that provided today. In addition, Poppelreuter (1917) argued for an interdisciplinary approach between psychology, neurology, and psychiatry, and in a paper published in 1918, he emphasized the importance of the patients own insight into the effects of disabilities and treatment. Goldstein (1942), also writing about the First World War, stressed the importance of cognitive and personality decits following brain injury and touched upon what today would be called cognitive rehabilitation strategies (Prigatano 2005). In 1918, Goldstein (quoted by Poser et al. 1996) was concerned with decisions as to whether to try to restore lost functioning or to compensate for lost or impaired functions, and this debate is still ongoing today. During the Second World War, Luria in the (then) Soviet Union and Zangwill in the United Kingdom were both working with brain-injured soldiers. One important principle, stressed by both Luria and Zangwill, was that of functional adaptation, whereby an intact skill is used to compensate for a damaged one. Goldstein was also committed to a similar concept. Lurias publications of 1963 and 1970 and his book with Naydin, Tsvetkova, and Vinarskaya (Luria et al. 1969) are well

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worth reading today for the insights they offer. So too is Zangwills (1947) paper in which he discusses, among other things, the principles of re-education and refers to three main approaches to rehabilitation: compensation, substitution, and direct retraining. Despite these similarities in concepts, there have been major changes, four of which are addressed in this section. The rst is goal setting to plan rehabilitation programs; second is a growing recognition that cognitive, emotional, and psychosocial difculties should all be addressed in rehabilitation; third is the increasing use of technology to compensate for cognitive difculties; and fourth is a realization that NR requires a broad theoretical base or indeed a number of theoretical bases.

Goal Setting to Plan Rehabilitation


The Concise Oxford Dictionary (1999) denes a goal as an object of effort or a destination. In a discussion of rehabilitation goals, Wade (1999) suggests, A goal is the state or change in state that is hoped or intended for an intervention or course of action to achieve. When we negotiate goals with our patients, their families, and the rehabilitation team, we are looking for something that the client/patient both will do and wants to do; this should be something that reects the longer-term targets and indeed the steps toward them. Goals are important regulators and motivators of human performance and action (Austin & Vancouver 1996) and a desired outcome by which progress can be measured. Goal setting has been used in rehabilitation for a number of years with various diagnostic groups including people with cerebral palsy, spinal injuries, developmental learning difculties, and acquired brain injury (McMillan & Sparkes 1999). Because goal planning is simple, focuses on practical everyday problems, is tailored to individual needs, and avoids the articial distinction between many outcome measures and real-life functioning, it is used increasingly in rehabilitation

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programs. This approach provides direction for rehabilitation, identies priorities for intervention, evaluates progress, breaks rehabilitation down into achievable steps, promotes team working, and results in better outcomes (Nair & Wade 2003). McMillan & Sparkes (1999) proposed several principles involved in the goal-planning approach. First, the patient should be engaged in setting his or her goals. Second, the goals set should be reasonable and client centered. Third, patients behavior when a goal is reached should be described. Fourth, the method to be used in achieving the goals should be dened in such a manner that anyone reading the plan would know what to do. In addition, goals should be specic and measurable and have a denite deadline. In most rehabilitation centers, long-term goals are those that the patient or client is expected to achieve by the time of discharge from the program, whereas short-term goals are the steps set each week or fortnight in order to achieve the long-term goals. An acronym that summarizes the main principles is SMART: Goals should be specic, measurable, achievable, realistic, and timely. The process of goal planning typically involves the allocation of a chairperson who conducts all meetings, limits meetings to the agreed upon time, claries for team members the aims of admission and the length of stay, actively participates as a member of the rehabilitation team, and ensures documentation is complete. The chairperson should also ensure good communication between all relevant parties, attend case conferences, coordinate reports, encourage clients, relatives, and staff members to be realistic, and make clear arguments to the relevant people for changes to the discharge date. Following a detailed assessment period, the rst goal-planning meeting is held, a problem list is drawn up, and potential long-term goals are identied. The goals are then discussed with the client and the family, and the nal goals are negotiated and agreed upon. Both long-term and short-term goals are documented. If it is con-

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sidered helpful, the client and the family members involved are given a copy of the short-term goals to be achieved by the following week or fortnight. Progress is reviewed every one or two weeks in a 30-minute meeting with the rehabilitation team. Additional short-term goals are set and, if necessary, additional long-term goals are added. If any longor short-term goals are not achieved or are only partially achieved, the reasons for this are recorded. Failure to achieve a goal is attributed to reasons in one of four main categories: (a) client/patient or carer (e.g., client unwell); (b) staff member (e.g., staff member absent through illness); (c) internal administration (e.g., transport failed to arrive); or (d ) external administration (e.g., funding withdrawn by rehabilitation purchaser) (McMillan & Sparkes 1999). Wilson et al. (2002) describe a successful goal-planning approach for a man who sustained both a head injury and a stroke. Manly (2003) discusses the targeting of functional goals in treatment. Williams (2003) says goal-setting procedures are one of the main components of programs dealing with cognitive and emotional disorders. Most British rehabilitation centers follow a goal-planning approach (Sopena et al. 2007). Further support comes from Kendall et al. (2006), whose meta-analysis suggests, [D]irect patient involvement in neurorehabilitation goal setting results in signicant improvements in reaching and maintaining those goals (p. 465).

SMART: acronym applied to goals that are specic, measurable, achievable, realistic, and timely

Cognitive, Emotional, and Psychosocial Decits are Interlinked


Although cognitive decits are, perhaps, the major focus of NR, there is a growing awareness that the emotional and psychosocial consequences of brain injury need to be addressed in rehabilitation programs. Furthermore, it is not always easy to separate cognitive, emotional, and psychosocial problems from one another. Not only does emotion affect how we think and how we behave, but also cognitive decits can be exacerbated by
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emotional distress and can cause apparent behavior problems. Psychosocial difculties can also result in increased emotional and behavioral problems, and anxiety can reduce the effectiveness of intervention programs. There is clearly an interaction between all these aspects of human functioning, as recognized by those who argue for the holistic approach to brain injury rehabilitation. This approach, pioneered by Diller (1976), Ben-Yishay (1978), and Prigatano (1986), is founded on the belief that the cognitive, psychiatric, and functional aspects of brain injury should not be separated from emotions, feelings, and selfesteem. Holistic programs include group and individual therapy in which patients are (a) encouraged to be more aware of their strengths and weaknesses, (b) helped to understand and accept these, (c) given strategies to compensate for cognitive difculties, and (d ) offered vocational guidance and support. Prigatano (1994) suggests that such programs appear to result in less emotional distress, increased selfesteem, and greater productivity. Prigatano (1999, 2005) and Sohlberg & Mateer (2001) describe the importance of dealing with the cognitive, emotional, and psychosocial consequences of brain injury. Wilson et al. (2000) present a British holistic program, based on the principles of Ben-Yishay (1978) and Prigatano (1986), that is followed at the Oliver Zangwill Center for Neuropsychological Rehabilitation in Ely, Cambridgeshire. Although these programs appear to be expensive in the short term, they are probably cost-effective in the long term (see Prigatano & Pliskin 2002). Williams (2003), who is concerned with the rehabilitation of emotional disorders following brain injury, suggests that survivors are at particular risk of developing mood disorders. He argues that this is one of the key areas for development in neurological services. Alderman (2003) targets behavior disorders in work with some of the most severely disturbed brain-injured people in the United Kingdom.

Increasing Use of Technology in Neuropsychological Rehabilitation


The increasing use of sophisticated technology such as positron emission tomography and functional magnetic resonance imaging is enhancing our understanding of brain damage (see, for example, Coleman et al. 2007). To what extent these methodologies can improve our rehabilitation programs remains to be seen. What is clear is the value of technology for reducing everyday problems of people with neurological damage. One of the major themes in rehabilitation is the adaptation of technology for the benet of people with cognitive impairments. Computers, for example, may be used as cognitive prosthetics, as compensatory devices, as assessment tools, or as a means for training. Given the current expansion in information technology, this is likely to be an area of growth and increasing importance in NR in the next decade. One of the earliest papers referring to the use an electronic aid with a person with brain damage was that by Kurlychek (1983). This was important because the aid assisted in tackling a real-life problem, which was to teach a man to check his timetable. In 1986, Glisky and colleagues taught memory-impaired people computer terminology; as a result, one of their participants was able to nd employment as a computer operator. Kirsch and colleagues (1987) designed an interactive task guidance system to assist brain-injured people in performing functional tasks. Since then, reports of successful use of technology with braininjured people have appeared in many papers. Boake (2003) includes discussion of some of the early computer-based cognitive rehabilitation programs, and Wilson et al. (2001) describe a randomized control crossover design that demonstrates it is possible to reduce the everyday problems of neurologically impaired people with memory and/or planning difculties by using a paging system. The reminders do not always have to be specic. Based on work by Robertson et al. (1997) and Manly et al. (1999), Fish et al. (2007) found that

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sending general reminders to stop, think, organize and plan led to improvement in a prospective memory task. These content-free reminders work for people whose prospective memory problems result from executive decits such as poor planning or divided attention difculties. For those with severe memory problems, however, a specic reminder would be required. Virtual reality (VR) represents another technology that will likely play an increasing role in rehabilitation. VR can be used to simulate real-life situations and thus be benecial for both assessment and treatment. Rose et al. (2005) provide a review of the way VR has been used in brain injury rehabilitation; in addition, they discuss the use of VR for the assessment and treatment of memory problems, executive decits, visuo-spatial difculties, and unilateral neglect.

certainly one of the most carefully worked out and clinically useful models of emotion at this time. The neurobehavioral model of Wood (1987, 1990) is one that has inuenced Aldermans work in the treatment of braininjured people with severe behavior problems (Alderman 2003). In a survey of British clinical neuropsychologists working in brain injury rehabilitation, 57 different models were reported as inuencing clinical practice (Sopena et al. 2007). Ethical and effective NR requires a synthesis and integration of several frameworks, theories, and methodologies to achieve its aims and ensure the best clinical practice.

Virtual reality (VR): a technology that allows a user to interact with a computer-simulated environment CBT: cognitive behavior therapy Traumatic brain injury (TBI): a sudden trauma causing damage to the brain (also called head injury)

COGNITIVE ASPECTS OF NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL REHABILITATION


It is worth restating that it is not easy to separate the cognitive, emotional, and psychosocial consequences of brain injury. However, because many of the studies in the literature report these three components separately, I examine them individually. Unless the brain damage is very mild, cognitive decits are almost invariably found in survivors of an insult to the brain. Problems with memory, attention, executive functioning, and speed of information processing are the most typical difculties faced by those who have sustained traumatic brain injury (TBI). For survivors of stroke, language problems are common after left hemisphere damage, and unilateral neglect is seen frequently after right hemisphere damage. Numerous studies have been published on the efcacy of cognitive rehabilitation, ranging from singlecase experimental designs to randomized controlled trials (RCTs). Chesnut et al. (1999) traced 2536 abstracts from articles on rehabilitation to nd answers to ve questions, one of which was concerned with cognitive rehabilitation. This particular report was based on 363 articles, of which 114 related to cognitive rehabilitation. The authors asked specically, Does the application of compensatory rehabilitation enhance
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Rehabilitation Needs a Broad Theoretical Base


People with brain injury are likely to face multiple problems, including cognitive, social, emotional, and behavioral, and no one model or group of models is sufcient to deal with all these issues. In order to improve cognitive, social, emotional, and behavioral functioning in the everyday life of these individuals, we should not be constrained by a single theoretical framework. Of the many theories that affect rehabilitation, four are perhaps of particular importance, namely theories of cognitive functioning, emotion, behavior, and learning. Consideration should also be given to theories of assessment, recovery, and compensation. Wilson (2002) argues for a broad-based model and provides a tentative comprehensive model of rehabilitation. Boake (2003) describes the different methodologies that inuenced some of the historical gures in the eld. Manly (2003) refers to numerous theories of attention that have guided treatment approaches to this difcult area. Williams (2003) is particularly inuenced by cognitive behavior therapy (CBT), which is

outcomes for people who sustain TBI? Of the 114 potential articles, only 32 reached the nal selection to evaluate effectiveness; the remaining 82 articles were excluded for various reasons, such as because they were review articles that were purely descriptive, reports on studies in which there were fewer than ve subjects, and so on. Of the 32 selected for evaluation, 11 were RCTs, with 5 measuring relevant health outcomes and 6 measuring intermediate outcomes. The authors of the report concluded, along with the small size of the studies and the narrow range of interventions studied, the lack of information about the representativeness of the included patients makes it difcult to apply the ndings of these studies to cognitive rehabilitation practice generally (p. 55). In other words, the RCTs did not reveal much about the effectiveness of cognitive rehabilitation in any general sense. The cognitive rehabilitation section of the report was published separately (Carney et al. 1999). The authors state that although the desired outcome of cognitive rehabilitation is improvement in daily function, many of the outcome measures are intermediate measures rather than health outcomes. By intermediate measures, the authors mean test scores (123 tests of cognition were described in the studies). The question was posed as to whether improvements on test scores predict improvement in real-life function. The authors concluded that although there appeared to be some relationship between intermediate measures and employment, the association was not strong. One could argue that the use of test scores irrespective of whether they are intermediate or direct is not a good way to evaluate rehabilitation. The ultimate goal of rehabilitation is to enable people with disabilities to function as adequately as possible in their most appropriate environment, so information on changes in scores on the Wechsler scales or any other standardized test will not yield the required information. For example, JC, a densely amnesic patient (Wilson 1999), has shown no improvement on standardized tests over a 10-year period, yet he
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is self-employed and completely independent thanks largely to excellent use of compensatory strategies. By most standards of those involved in rehabilitation, these outcomes are very good indeed, yet if standardized tests had been used as measures of success, JC would have failed dismally. Some studies address real-life functional issues. For example, Wilson et al. (2001) reported a randomized control study to evaluate a paging system in which memory-impaired patients were randomly allocated to the pager or to a waiting list. Patients and their families identied real-life problems involving tasks such as taking medication, feeding the dog, and collecting children from school. In the baseline period, these behaviors were monitored and there was no difference between the two groups. Those allocated to the paging condition then received their pagers and the same behaviors were monitored as before. The achievement of the target behaviors signicantly improved, whereas those on the waiting list experienced no change. The pagers were then returned and given to the people who had been on the waiting list. This group then improved signicantly. Those who had returned their pagers dropped back a little but were still better than they had been at baseline. This suggested that some learning of the target behaviors had taken place during the pager phase. Tackling real-life targets and individualizing programs within a specied framework isor should bethe way forward in cognitive rehabilitation. Clare and colleagues (Clare et al. 1999, 2000, 2001) applied this principle to people with Alzheimers disease. Patients and families selected the target behaviors they wanted to achieve and a way was found to teach new information. The main strategies used in this series of studies were errorless learning and spaced retrieval. Cicerone and colleagues (2000, 2005) have carried out major investigations into the efcacy of cognitive rehabilitation. In their 2005 paper, they used search engines to locate cognitive rehabilitation studies and identied 47

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studies that fullled certain inclusion criteria. They looked at several cognitive domains including attention difculties, visuo-spatial decits, apraxia, language and communication problems, memory decits, executive functioning, problem solving, and awareness. On the issue of retraining versus compensation, they found that retraining was effective for some cognitive functions (for example, language), whereas compensation was necessary for others (such as memory decits). Their overall conclusion was, There is now a substantial body of evidence demonstrating that patients with TBI or stroke benet from cognitive rehabilitation (Cicerone et al. 2005, p. 1689). These authors also state, Future research should move beyond the simple question of whether cognitive rehabilitation is effective, and examine the therapy factors and patient characteristics that optimize the clinical outcomes of cognitive rehabilitation (p. 1681). Halligan & Wade (2005) provide a summary of much of the work on the effectiveness of rehabilitation for cognitive decits.

EMOTIONAL ASPECTS OF NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL REHABILITATION


The management and remediation of emotional consequences of brain injury have become increasingly important in recent years. Prigatano (1999) suggests that rehabilitation is likely to fail if clinicians do not deal with the emotional issues. Consequently, an understanding of theories and models of emotion is crucial to successful rehabilitation. Social isolation, anxiety, and depression are common in survivors of brain injury. Kopelman & Crawford (1996) found that 40% of 200 consecutive referrals to a memory clinic were suffering from clinical depression. Bowen et al. (1998) found that 38% of survivors of TBI experienced mood disorders. Williams et al. (2002) found that estimates of the prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) following TBI range from 3% to 27%. In their own study, they found that 18% of 66

community-living survivors of TBI experienced PTSD. Gainotti (1993) distinguishes three main factors causing emotional and psychosocial problems after brain injury: those resulting from neurological factors, those due to psychological or psychodynamic factors, and those due to psychosocial factors. An example of a neurological factor is an individual with brain stem damage leading to the socalled catastrophic reaction, in which swings from tears to laughter may follow in rapid succession. Anosognosia, or lack of awareness of ones decits, is also frequently due to organic impairment. An important book on the topic of unawareness (Prigatano & Schacter 1991) posits several rationales for the existence of anosognosia. Gainotti (1993) also addresses unawareness in detail, and Clare & Halligan (2006) characterize some of the key clinical issues concerned with assessing and managing pathologies of subjective or conscious awareness. The second factor identied in Gainottis (1993) three-part classication, that is, emotional problems that are due to psychological or psychodynamic causes, includes personal attitudes toward the disability. An example is someone with an acquired dyslexia and consequent loss of self-esteem together with depression because of an inability to read. Denial is also thought to be relevant to some cases of this second type of emotional disorder. At some level, patients are aware of their disabilities but are unable to accept them. Because denial can occur in conditions without any damage to the brain, there must be (at least in some cases) nonorganic reasons for it (Gainotti 1993). PTSD also ts into this classication. Fear of what might happen in the future, panic because one cannot remember what has happened in the past few minutes, grief at loss of functioning, and reduced selfesteem because of changes in physical appearance may all contribute to emotional changes. The third category put forward by Gainotti (1993) includes problems that arise for psychosocial reasons. An example is an
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Psychosocial functioning: encompasses work, leisure, and social relationships; overlaps with emotional well-being

individual who loses all his or her friends and colleagues following a brain injury and thus is very socially isolated. Social isolation is seen in up to 60% of survivors of TBI (Hooen et al. 2001). One aspect not covered by Gainotti is the inuence of premorbid personality. This is discussed by Moore & Stambrook (1995), Williams et al. (1999), and Tate (1998). Tate, however, found that premorbid personality had less effect on psychosocial functioning than did severity of injury. In understanding emotion after brain injury, we need to consider neurological, physical, and biochemical models such as those described by Robinson & Starkstein (1989). Although such models address the issue of why emotional problems arise following an insult to the brain, they do not offer much help in understanding the psychodynamic and psychosocial causes of emotional and mood disorders. Perhaps the most helpful models come from CBT. Ever since Becks highly inuential book, Cognitive Therapy and Emotional Disorders, appeared in 1976, CBT has been one of the most important and best-validated psychotherapeutic procedures (Salkovskis 1996). A major strength of Becks updated model (Beck 1996) has been the development of clinically relevant theories. Beck presents several theories not only for depression and anxiety but also for panic, obsessive-compulsive disorders, and phobias. Mateer & Sira (2006) suggest that CBT is well suited for improving coping skills, helping clients to manage cognitive difculties, and addressing more generalized anxiety and depression in the context of a brain injury. Williams et al. (2003) describe the use of CBT with two survivors of TBI. One was a young man whose girlfriend was killed in a car crash while he was driving. The other was a young woman, known as CM, who had been severely assaulted while traveling on a train (described in more detail below). Williams et al. (2003) discuss the possible mechanisms for PTSD after TBI. These conditions were once thought to be mutually exclusive because the survivor would lack a memory for the event from which to develop
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vivid intrusive cognitions and avoidance behaviors (Sbordone & Liter 1995). However, given that PTSD seems to occur even when there is a loss of consciousness for the event, there could be two main mediating mechanisms to suggest how trauma-related material may be processed to lead to PTSD symptoms. First, survivors may evoke islands of memory for their trauma, such as being trapped in a crashed car, or other secondary experiences that could fuel intrusive ruminations (McMillan 1996). Second, survivors may be reminded of elements of their trauma event when exposed to similar situations that serve to produce intrusive thoughts and fuel avoidance behaviors (Brewin et al. 1996). McNeil & Greenwood (1996) described a survivor of TBI who was hyperaroused in, and avoidant of, situations that were similar to the trauma event, a road trafc accident, even though he had no declarative memory of the event. If an event is unexpected but has biological signicance and, hence, emotional salience, McNeil & Greenwood (1996) suggested, it may lead to the event being stored (or burned in to memory) despite disruption to areas of the brain that store declarative memories (see Markowitsch 1998). Such a view would be compatible with the concept that PTSD is caused by a conditioning of fear. The mechanism responsible is one in which traumatic experiences can be processed independently of higher cortical functions (see Bryant 2001). Analytic psychotherapy is also used in rehabilitation, particularly in the United States. Prigatano is perhaps the best-known proponent of psychotherapy treatment of individuals surviving TBI. He describes his approach (based on the milieu therapy approach of BenYishay) in Principles of Neuropsychological Rehabilitation (Prigatano 1999). Dealing with the emotional consequences of brain injury may make the difference between a successful and an unsuccessful outcome. CM, mentioned above, was stabbed through the head in the right temperoparietal area with a hunting knife while traveling on a train. She was 19 at the time and

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did not lose consciousness, probably because the knife did not enter her brain stem. She described feeling a pain in her head and a weight as if the carriage had fallen on top of her. She stood up and realized that something terrible had happened. She went into the next carriage where a man told her to sit down and stay still and he would get help. She felt the knife with her hand and asked if she was going to die. The man said No and that he would get help. At the next stop, an ambulance arrived and took her to the hospital. A few months later, she came to our rehabilitation center. She had a number of cognitive problems, including visuo-spatial issues and memory decits, but the emotional difculties took priority in treatment. She was anxious and avoided many social situations; she would not look at people, feared for her family, and had classic symptoms of PTSD including ashbacks and nightmares; and she refused to use public transport. Like all other patients there, she had both group and individual therapy, including a considerable amount of psychological support and treatment for the emotional problems identied (Williams et al. 2003). This involved CBT, including stress inoculation, and graduated exposure to situations she avoided. She was also treated for her cognitive difculties, but if these had been the only problems treated, it is doubtful that she would have been able to make such a good recovery and return to a full and meaningful life. A recent study (Tiersky et al. 2005) examined the effects of a rehabilitation program offering psychotherapy and cognitive rehabilitation and compared a treatment group with a control group. The treatment group showed signicantly improved emotional functioning, including lessened anxiety and depression. The authors concluded, Cognitive behavioral psychotherapy and cognitive remediation appear to diminish psychologic distress and improve cognitive functioning among community-living persons with mild and moderate TBI (Tiersky et al. 2005, p. 1565).

PSYCHOSOCIAL ASPECTS OF NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL REHABILITATION


Considerable overlap exists between psychosocial and emotional difculties. Indeed, one denition of a psychosocial disorder is a mental illness caused or inuenced by life experiences, as well as maladjusted cognitive and behavioral processes (www.healthatoz.com). In brain injury rehabilitation, however, the term is more often used to refer to psychosocial outcomes such as work, friendships, and community activities. In other words, psychosocial functioning is close to participation as dened by the International Classication of Functioning, Disability and Health (World Health Org. 2001). Wade (2005) says that the World Health Organization (WHO) framework was developed as a means of describing the totality that is the experience of illness (p. 32). The framework consists of four levels: pathology, impairment, activity, and participation. Thus, in the case of a brain-injured person, the pathology might be damage to the cerebral cortex and the resulting impairment might be a poor memory. This, in turn, causes limitations to the persons everyday activities; so, for example, s/he is unable to remember appointments. This problem might affect the extent of participation in the persons social environment, causing difculties with work, the duties of parenthood, or the ability to engage in leisure activities. The WHO model also considers three major contexts inuencing behavior: personal, physical, and social contexts. Wade (2005) says these contexts might be considered to affect the interactions between pathology and impairment, impairment and activities and activities and participation (p. 34). Personal context includes the relevant characteristics of an individual such as expectations, beliefs, and attitudes. Physical context refers to the environment in which the individual nds himself or herself, and social context refers to the culture in which the individual functions. All these factors contribute to the quality of life

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as experienced by the person with a disability. For the purposes of this review, psychosocial problems are seen as synonymous with the WHO denition of participation. Twenty-rst century rehabilitation programs are typically concerned with psychosocial adjustment to disability (Sopena et al. 2007, Yates 2003). Included in this category are employment or other productive activity, social relationships, and leisure. Some believe that the psychosocial problems associated with TBI may actually be the major challenge of rehabilitation (Morton & Wehman 1995). Survivors of brain injury face problems of social isolation and decreased leisure activities, thus creating a renewed dependence on their family members. Karlovits & McColl (1999) interviewed 11 survivors of severe brain injury to discover impediments to reintegration into the community. Nine stressors were identied: orientation, transportation, living situation, loss of independence, relationships, loneliness, routine, problems with studying, and work. Much of the focus of post acute rehabilitation is on helping people to return to a productive lifestyle (Petrella et al. 2005). Indeed, the success of NR programs is often measured by such outcomes. Lack of productivity, particularly employment, decreases the opportunity for individuals with brain injury to develop social contacts and leisure activities, which in turn contributes to depression and low self-esteem. In contrast, engagement in paid and nonpaid productive activities, such as volunteering or homemaking, has a benecial impact on community integration (Petrella et al. 2005). Return to work is one of the major goals that clients in brain-injury rehabilitation programs want to achieve. A number of studies have addressed the issue of returning to work after rehabilitation. Failure to succeed at work is associated with poor self-awareness, impaired executive functioning, and poor metacognition (Ownsworth & Fleming 2005). In a multicenter study, Walker et al. (2006) found that that those who were employed prior to the onset of their brain
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injury, in comparison with those who were unemployed, were more likely to work after rehabilitation. The type of occupation also inuenced return to work: Those in professional or managerial jobs were more likely to return to work than were those in other positions. In another meta-analysis, Kendall et al. (2006) said, [T]he use of a narrow denition of return-to-work (i.e., full-time competitive work only) produced more apparent unemployment than an inclusive denition (i.e., any competitive work or productive activity) (p. 149). Although this is not surprising, it highlights the fact that a return to full-time employment after severe brain injury is not always achievable and, in rehabilitation, we need to consider a range of productive activities for our patients/clients. In the words of Kendall et al. (2006), The denition of employment and the nature of preinjury employment is crucial to any interpretation of returnto-work in TBI. The current study also highlights the importance of measuring employment outcomes using multiple points over time, rather than single data points or rst return-to-work (p. 149). In an examination of the effects of rehabilitation on return to work for military personnel, Cullen et al. (2007) found moderate evidence to support the view that inpatient rehabilitation results in successful return to work and return to duty for the majority of military service members. They also suggested that increasing the intensity of rehabilitation not only reduced the length of stay but also improved short-term functional outcomes. Turner-Stokes et al. (2005) also found strong evidence to support the claim that intensive rehabilitation led to more functional gains than did lessintensive rehabilitation. In summary, people who are given intensive rehabilitation have an improved likelihood of returning to work, and the denition of return to work should be expanded to include part-time work and other meaningful functional activities rather than simply full-time competitive work. Social isolation is common after TBI, in part because of decits in social skills

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(McDonald 2003). An increase in social skills and social relationships should be one of the major goals for rehabilitation. Some studies have shown that it is possible to achieve these goals ( Johnson & Davis 1998, Ownsworth et al. 2000, Ylvisaker et al. 2005). In their work with stroke patients, Haslam et al. (2007) found that the number of social groups people belonged to before their stroke predicted their sense of well-being after the stroke and that this was a result of them being more likely to retain membership of more groups. Another study looking at personal relationships is that of Wood & Rutterford (2005), who found that ve factors predicted problems with social relationships. These were (a) loss of self-control (e.g., aggression, social and/or sexual disinhibition), (b) emotional dysfunction (e.g., mood swings, quick temper), (c) adynamia (e.g., lack of motivation for leisure activities, fatigue, loss of libido, loss of social interests), (d ) personality change (e.g., obsessiveness), and (e) cognitive dysfunction (e.g., memory loss, attention/concentration difculties, organization and planning problems). These are all factors that are or should be addressed in rehabilitation. Another area of research is leisure. A Danish study by Engberg & Teasdale (2004) found that maintenance of leisure-time interests and general life satisfaction was poorer in survivors of a cerebral lesion compared with patients with a cranial fracture. A French study (Quintard et al. 2002) looked at late outcome and satisfaction of life of 79 patients with severe TBI. Up to 85% were independent in activities of daily living, 55% were independent in social life, but only 36% were satised with leisure activities. In some rehabilitation programs, leisure goals are among the most common goals set. For example, Bateman et al. (2005) looked at 680 goals set for 95 clients at the Oliver Zangwill Center in the United Kingdom. The most common goals were connected with managing activities of daily living (248); leisure goals (154) came second jointly with goals pertaining to

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understanding the consequences of brain injury, followed by goals connected with work or study skills (119). It is clear that rehabilitation for psychosocial difculties is an important part of the care of survivors of brain injury. Physical difculties are less likely to affect the quality of life of a brain-injured person than are the cognitive, emotional, and psychosocial sequelae, so these should be the focus of rehabilitation programs. In the words of Khan et al. (2003), Cognitive and behavioral changes, difculties maintaining personal relationships and coping with school and work are reported by survivors as more disabling than any residual physical decits (p. 290). A collection of papers on biopsychosocial approaches in neurorehabilitation edited by Williams & Evans (2003) summarizes much of the work tackled in this eld.

NeuroPage: a reminding system using radio-paging technology

MODELS AND THEORETICAL APPROACHES CONTRIBUTING TO NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL REHABILITATION


Most neuropsychologists working in rehabilitation believe that treatment should be driven by theory, although they may also believe that theories are not necessarily sufcient on their own. For example, NeuroPage, a paging system for helping memory-impaired people remember everyday tasks, was developed by an engineer with no knowledge of psychological theory who had a son with a severe TBI (Hersch & Treadgold 1994). Even though it is not theoretically driven, NeuroPage has led to theoretically driven questions such as the effect of executive functioning on successful use of the pager (Fish et al. 2007). Perhaps the most inuential models and theories in NR over the past two decades are those of cognition, emotion, behavior, and learning. Models of cognitive functioning that have proved useful in rehabilitation include language, reading (Howard 2005, Mitchum & Berndt 1995), memory (Baddeley 1992, 2007), attention (Robertson 1999), and
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perception (Bruce & Young 1986). Given the increasing recognition of the importance of addressing emotional and psychosocial difculties, emotional models are essential in NR. One of the most important of these, CBT, is discussed above. Models and theories from behavioral psychology have been employed in NR for more than 40 years. They have provided some of the most useful and inuential theoretical contributions to rehabilitation, not only for the understanding, management, and remediation of disruptive behaviors, but also for the remediation of cognitive decits (Wilson et al. 2003). Behavioral theories are valuable in NR because they inform assessment, treatment, and the measurement of rehabilitation efcacy. Learning theory is one of the cornerstones of behavior therapy and behavior modication, with the other main theoretical inuences coming from biological, cognitive, and social psychology (Martin 1991). There is little doubt, though, that the original behavioral treatments grew out of learning theory. Eysenck (1964), for example, dened behavior therapy as the attempt to alter human behavior and emotion in a benecial manner according to the laws of modern learning theory (p. 1). Believing that the purpose of rehabilitation is to help people achieve their optimum level of physical, psychological, social, and vocational functioning, Wilson (2002) attempted to synthesize a number of approaches and models used in rehabilitation to reect the complexity of the eld and the range of issues to be dealt with. Wilson published a provisional model of cognitive rehabilitation in which she argued that one model, or one group of models such as those from cognitive neuropsychology, is insufcient to (a) determine what needs to be rehabilitated, (b) plan appropriate treatment for neuropsychological impairments, and (c) evaluate response to rehabilitation. Rehabilitation is one of many elds that need a broad theoretical base incorporating frameworks, theories, and mod-

els from a number of different areas. Constraint of rehabilitation workers to one model could lead to poor clinical practice because important aspects of patients lives could be neglected.

GUIDELINES FOR GOOD PRACTICE IN NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL REHABILITATION


Although there are no denitive trials to support the holistic approach, it has probably been subjected to more evaluation studies than have other approaches (e.g., Cicerone et al. 2004, Diller & Ben-Yishay 2002) and, at present, is probably the most effective clinically (Cicerone et al. 2007). Most holistic programs are concerned with increasing a clients awareness, alleviating cognitive decits, developing compensatory skills, and providing vocational counseling. All such programs provide a mixture of individual and group therapy. This approach possibly could be improved by incorporating ideas and practical applications from learning theory, such as task analysis, baseline recording, monitoring, and the implementation of single-case experimental designs to individual treatment programs. Another potential improvement would be referring to cognitive neuropsychological models in order to identify cognitive strengths and weaknesses in more detail to explain observed phenomena and make predictions about cognitive functioning. Prigatano (1999) lists 13 principles of NR derived from a holistic approach, and there is no doubt that his work has considerably inuenced current rehabilitation practice. These principles are described in Table 3. The Oliver Zangwill Center, inuenced by Prigatanos approach, bases its NR on six core components that are described here to illustrate the principles of good clinical practice in NR. More detail on the components is available from the Oliver Zangwill Web site, www.ozc.nhs.uk.

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Summary of Prigatanos 13 principles of neuropsychological rehabilitation Principle Begin with the patients subjective or phenomenological experience. The symptoms presented are a mixture of premorbid cognitive and personality characteristics together with the neuropsychological changes resulting from the brain pathology. Neuropsychological rehabilitation focuses on both the remediation of higher cerebral disturbances and their management in interpersonal situations. Neuropsychological rehabilitation helps patients observe their behavior to teach them about the direct and indirect effects of brain injury. Failure to study the interaction of cognition and personality leads to an inadequate understanding of many issues. Little is known about how to retrain cognitive dysfunction, but general guidelines of cognitive remediation can be specied. Psychotherapeutic interventions help patients (and families) deal with their personal losses. Working with patients who have dysfunctional brains produces affective reactions in the patients family and the rehabilitation staff. Appropriate management of these reactions facilitates adaptation. Each neuropsychological rehabilitation program is a dynamic entity. The team needs to maintain a dynamic, creative effort. Failure to identify those patients who can and cannot be helped creates a lack of credibility. Disturbances in self-awareness after brain injury are often poorly understood and poorly managed. Competent patient management and planning depend on understanding mechanisms of recovery and deterioration. The rehabilitation of patients with higher cerebral decits requires both scientic and phenomenological approaches.

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1. Provide a Therapeutic Milieu Derived from Ben-Yishays concept of the therapeutic milieu (Ben-Yishay 1996), the therapeutic milieu in holistic rehabilitation refers to the organization of the complete environment (physical, organizational, and social aspects) to maximize support for the process of adjustment and to increase social participation. The milieu embodies a strong sense of mutual cooperation and trust, which underpins the working alliance between client and clinicians. 2. Establish Meaningful and Functionally Relevant Goals for Rehabilitation Meaningful functional activity refers to all day-to-day activities that form the basis for social participation. These can be categorized into vocational, educational, recreational, social, and independent living realms. It is through participation in these areas that individuals gain a sense of purpose and mean-

ing in their lives. Although it is probably not thought about consciously in everyday life, activity enables individuals to achieve certain aims or ambitions that are personally significant and thereby contributes to the sense of identity. 3. Ensure Shared Understanding The notion of shared understanding comes from the use of formulation in clinical practice (Butler 1998). A formulation is seen as a map or guide to intervention that combines a model derived from established theories and best evidence with the clients and familys personal views, experiences, and stories. This concept, which should be applied to all individual clinical work, inuences the way the rehabilitation experience is organized as a whole. The shared understanding concept incorporates team philosophy, including shared team vision, explicit values, and goals. Understanding of research and theory,

Therapeutic milieu: the organization of the environment to ensure maximum support to the process of adjustment and to increase social participation

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sharing knowledge and experience with other professionals and families, peer audit of the service, and the views and contributions of past clients are additional aspects of the shared understanding ideal. 4. Apply Psychological Interventions Psychological interventions are based upon certain ways of understanding feelings and behavior. Specic psychological models (particularly those described above) are used to guide work depending upon the specic needs of the individual. Approaches from these models provide ways team members can engage patients/clients in positive change and the tackling of specic problems. 5. Manage Cognitive Impairments Through Compensatory Strategies and Retraining Skills Compensatory strategies are alternative ways to enable individuals to achieve a desired objective when an underlying function of the brain is not operating effectively. Compensatory approaches to managing impairments take a number of forms, including: cognitive compensation (e.g., using visual imagery to compensate for a defective verbal memory, using a mental routine for managing impulsivity or anger, and clarifying to ensure effective communication); enhanced learningtechniques such as errorless learning or spaced retrieval that lead to more effective learning of new knowledge or skills; external aids (e.g., using a diary for managing memory problems, checklists to remember exercise routines, alarms to increase attention to tasks, cue cards for keeping on track during conversation); and environmental adaptationsmodifying relevant environments in order to reduce cognitive demands (e.g., working in a quiet, nondistracting room to aid
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concentration, holding important conversations when less fatigued). Retraining is undertaken to improve performance of a specic function of the brain or to improve performance on a particular task or activity. Retraining also helps to address skills lost through lack of use, e.g., through not being at work since an injury. 6. Work Closely with Families and Carers Families and carers sometimes report feeling like an afterthought in rehabilitation. Recent policy (National Service Framework for Long Term Conditions, Dep. Health, London, 2004) highlights how families and carers experience a signicant burden following acquired brain injury and recommends provision of support. Many kinds of support can be offered, for example, providing information, furnishing opportunities for peer support, involving family and carers in rehabilitation, and providing individual family consultation or therapy.

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SUMMARY
Following denitions of neuropsychology, rehabilitation, and NR, this review discusses some of the ways the eld has changed in recent years. The particular focus is on (a) goal setting as a way of structuring rehabilitation, (b) the realization that the emotional and psychosocial consequences of brain injury are as important as the cognitive consequences, (c) the increasing use of technology in rehabilitation, and (d ) a recognition that a wide range of theoretical models and approaches is needed to inform the assessment and treatment of people who have survived a brain injury. The three main components of NRcognitive, emotion, and psychosocial functioningare looked at in more detail. Given that how we feel affects how we think, how we behave, and how we interact with others, all three functions need to be addressed in any rehabilitation program. Evidence is provided to show that difculties in

these areas can be reduced through NR. Because the eld is broad and complex, clinicians need to be informed by a number of models and theories to reduce the everyday problems faced by people who have survived brain injury. Some of the most inuential models and

theoretical approaches used to plan rehabilitation are described, particularly those relevant to cognitive functioning, emotion, behavior, and learning. The review concludes with recommendations for good practice in the rehabilitation of people with brain injury.

SUMMARY POINTS 1. Neuropsychological rehabilitation (NR) is concerned with the amelioration of cognitive, emotional, psychosocial, and behavioral decits caused by an insult to the brain.
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2. The main purpose of NR is to enable people to return to their own most appropriate environments; for this reason, meaningful goals should be set in the areas of vocation, education, recreation, social relationships, and independent living. 3. Although cognitive decits are perhaps the major focus of NR, emotional and psychosocial consequences of brain injury need to be addressed in rehabilitation programs. There is an interaction between these different functions, and it is not always easy to separate them from one another. 4. Technology is increasingly used to help people compensate for cognitive difculties. Some technological aids are described and evaluated. 5. NR requires a broad theoretical base and some of the most inuential models and theories inuencing current practice are described. 6. Evidence is provided to show that NR can reduce difculties in the three main areas of cognitive, emotional, and psychosocial functioning. 7. Suggested guidelines for good clinical practice are outlined.

DISCLOSURE STATEMENT
The author is not aware of any biases that might be perceived as affecting the objectivity of this review.

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Describes a series of case studies with long-term follow-ups (winner of the British Psychological Societys 2003 book award).

Provides a synthesized model of the many factors to be considered in neuropsychological rehabilitation.

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