Rehabilitation of the Brain-Damaged Adult and Behavior Therapy

Abstract

In this chapter, we shall provide a rationale for the use of behaviortherapeutic methods in the assessment and treatment of brain-damaged patients and present some data gathered by ourselves and others to illustrate how various methods derived from behavior therapy can be used effectively in treatment. We will begin with a brief introduction to behavior therapy, go on to provide a rationale for building an interrelationship between behavior therapy and neuropsychology centered around treatment of brain-damaged patients, and conclude with a number of illustrations of how this relationship can work in actual practice.