Cognitive Rehabilitation and Remediation

What is cognitive rehabilitation and how can psychology help?

There are many times the ‘brain’ may need evidence-based, individualised assistance for:

  • Skills attainment and growth

  • Therapy adaptations

  • Cognitive rehabilitation

  • Remediation and adaptations

  • Making meaning within changed abilities

“An injury to the brain can affect virtually any aspect of functioning. At the deepest level it can alter one’s sense of self or the unique and persisting qualities that define who we are. People with brain injury may perceive losing some fundamental part of themselves”.

— Professor Tamara Ownsworth, 2014

Targets of rehabilitation and remediation can include:

  • Fatigue or shortened stamina

  • Reduced orientation to place and time

  • Challenges in activity initiation

  • Speed of information processing

  • Attentional skills

  • Emotional regulation

  • Expressive language changes

  • Working memory limitations

Mind and Matter Psychology Cognitive Rehabilitation

  • Executive functioning

    • Planning and problem solving

    • Reduced mental flexibility

    • Disinhibition

    • Impulsivity

  • Memory Recall

  • Difficulty taking in new information (learning)

  • Navigating visual challenges

  • Changed or challenging behaviours

YOUR MIND MATTERS

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