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HOW DO WE
Therapeutic Services for Injury-Related Impairments
OPTIMIZE?
Premorbid Individual
Social Communication
Cognition
OUTCOME
Factors
Injury-Related Factors
Traditional Approach to Cognitive Rehabilitation
• Advances in technology
(Gillespie et al., 2011)
(Detterman 1993)
Our roadmap for teaching functional cognitive
rehabilitation
Leslie Freeman Davidson, PhD OTR/L Mary Vining Radomski, PhD., OTR/L
Carol Smith Hammond, PhD, CCC-SLP Carole R. Roth PhD CCC-SLP, BC-ANCDS
1. Recruit Resilience
• Identify & incorporate values of patient into therapy
• Promote self-efficacy, positive expectation, sense of meaning
5. Focus on function
• Overarching goal of cognitive rehabilitation after TBI is to help people resume
valued activities
• This is best accomplished when therapy itself is integration-focused and directed
at functional activities in a community context
Get Started
• Establishing the therapeutic alliance, information gathering, engage & motivate
Transition to Self-Management
• Plan for discharge, evaluate outcomes
Getting Started
Get Started:
1. Establish therapeutic alliance • Motivational Interviewing
2. Gather information • Self-Report Measures
3. Engage and motivate • Establish a ‘Quick Win’
Transition to Self-Management
Getting Started: Motivational Interviewing
Getting Started: Self-Determination Theory
Competence – Self-efficacy
Person-centered
focus (meaningful,
Person-centered
ecologically valid)
focus (meaningful,
ecologically valid)
Transition to Self-Management
Setting Goals: The Drive behind Rehabilitation
Setting the Stage for Functional Change
Goals: The Mismatch Between Clinicians & Patients
Why does therapy work?
Cicerone, 2006
Why does therapy fail?
Clinicians: When therapy works: It’s because of the quality of the therapy
When therapy fails: It’s because the patient wasn’t motivated
Patients: When therapy works: It’s because of the effort they put into therapy
and the support of their family
When therapy fails: It’s because the therapy was ineffective
Setting the Stage for Functional Change
Why Rehabilitation Fails (van den Broek, 2005)
Failure often arises from a mismatch between the goals of the
treatment team and the patient’s aspirations
A goal in which
1. The functional context, functional activity, and
cognitive context for that goal are identified through
client responses to open ended questions or
reflections by the clinician
Better than
+1 Client independently initiates reading his textbook 5-6 mornings a week Expected Outcome
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0 Client independently initiates reading his textbook 3-4 mornings a week Expected Outcome
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Less than
-1 Client independently initiates reading his textbook 1-2 mornings a week Expected Outcome
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Much Less than
-2 Client does not independently initiate reading his textbook in the morning Expected Outcome
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Risk Communication
• The language we use
Setting the Stage for Functional Change:
Cognitive Strategy Training
Clinician Reminders:
Primary Tools:
• Strategy selection and introduction based
on collaborative interview and any testing • General vs specific strategies
• Training should include Knowledge • Internal vs external strategies
Assessment (why, how, when to use
strategy)
• Training should provide adequate practice Common Targets:
for fluency and generalization
• Goal completion
• Evaluation includes measure of strategy
knowledge, use and impact • Self-monitoring
• Attentional focus
• Prospective memory
• Retrospective memory
• Learning
Making Functional Changes
Training Cognitive Strategies - categories
Activity Specific Strategies
• Remembering names
• Prevention of lost items
• Academic strategies (study skills, writing, reading, assignment management)
• Social communication strategies (conversation starters, question templates)
• Navigation strategies
• Knowledge:
• Why – How - When
• Application:
• Practice to fluency (mastery) – Generalize to functional
contexts
• Measurement:
• Knowledge – Use – Impact
Setting the Stage for Functional Change: Direct Tx
Direct Training of Cognitive Processes
Clinician Reminders: Primary Tools:
• Candidacy • Programs with evidence-
• Theoretical grounding base
• Sufficient Repetition
• Patient-centered outcome
measures that capture
• Patient Performance drives
generalization
clinical regimen
• Combine drills with strategy
training
Common Targets:
• Increased working memory
• Identify and Measure Functional
• Increased sustained attention
Goals
• Improvements on specific
Examples: functional tasks
• Attention Training
• Goal Management Training
Setting the Stage for Functional Change: Direct Tx
Direct Training of Cognitive Processes
Training specific cognitive processes with a goal of improving
processes at the impairment level
Discharge
• Discharge outright with no additional follow-up
• Community resources?
– Support groups?
– Other providers?
– Classes, recreation?
• Self evaluation surveys
• Phone follow up
• Reminder handouts for family, friends, patient
Planning for Discharge: Why Assess Outcomes?
• Demonstrating to clients and their families that they have made important and
significant improvements