Description
Ages: 16-AdultGrades: 11-Adult
Target specific high-level cognitive processes in your clients with executive function disorder with activities that can be individualized to their needs and interests.
Executive functions perform a collective service that comes into play with all facets of cognitive processing. Patients with executive function disorders have difficulty with:
- planning and organization
- identifying what needs to be done
- carrying out the steps in an orderly way
- identifying the beginning tasks
- maintaining attention
- evaluating how they're doing on a task
- taking feedback or suggestions
This manual provides a structured framework for therapists to guide the evaluation process and treatment of patients with executive function disorders. The manual gives:
- information on the use of standardized and informal assessment tools to reflect the patient's real-life performance
- instruction in the use of the Patient-Initiated Continuum (PIC) to involve the patient as a stakeholder in therapy and to quantify patient improvement
- thorough explanations of the processes of time management, attention (five forms), goal-directed behavior, and memory
- activities to systematically target self-assessment, time management, attention (five forms), goal-directed behavior, and memory
- examples of goals and written reports
- documentation requirements
Extra helps include:
- patient history form
- patient self-assessment checklists
- patient performance checklist
- time management templates
- 65 pages of reproducible activities
- answer key
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211 pages • 8.5 x 11, softcover book with reproducible pages (checklists, forms, therapy activities) • ©2003