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The Neuropsychology of Everyday Life: Issues in Development and Rehabilitation pp 271–292Cite as

Neuropsychological Rehabilitation: Treatment of Errors in Everyday Functioning

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It is perhaps a truism that the goal of rehabilitation after brain injury is the improvement of functioning in real-life contexts. In practice, this goal requires the training of new behaviors to replace the impaired functions and the learning of new ways to perform a wide range of daily activities in a variety of situations. Unfortunately, the cognitive processes underlying the acquisition, maintenance, and production of those new behaviors are the very ones that are impaired. Cognitive deficits not only interfere with the ability to profit from traditional rehabilitative therapies, but they often represent the major obstacle to successful everyday functioning. Thus there have been increasing efforts to develop specific remedial interventions for cognitive disability after brain injury and, more recently, concern that these interventions are relevant to patients’ lives beyond therapy.

When new turns in behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual its behavior ceases to be intelligent.

G. E. COGHILL, ANATOMY AND THE PROBLEM OF BEHAVIOR (NEW YORK: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1929), P. 79.

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  1. New Medico Rehabilitation and Skilled, Nursing Center of Troy, Troy, New York, USA

    David E. Tupper (Director of Clinical Services, Clinical Assistant Professor) (Director of Clinical Services, Clinical Assistant Professor)

  2. Department of Psychiatry, Albany Medical College, Albany, New York, USA

    David E. Tupper (Director of Clinical Services, Clinical Assistant Professor) (Director of Clinical Services, Clinical Assistant Professor)

  3. The Center for Head Injuries, Johnson Rehabilitation Institute, Edison, New Jersey, USA

    Keith D. Cicerone (Clinical Director) (Clinical Director)

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Cicerone, K.D., Tupper, D.E. (1991). Neuropsychological Rehabilitation: Treatment of Errors in Everyday Functioning. In: Tupper, D.E., Cicerone, K.D. (eds) The Neuropsychology of Everyday Life: Issues in Development and Rehabilitation. Foundations of Neuropsychology, vol 3. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1511-7_11

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