The Source (R) for Executive Function Disorders

The Source for Executive Function Disorders includes research-based rehabilitation exercises that methodically target specific processes are proven to improve cognitive functioning in patients with brain injury. This resource goes the extra step by applying therapeutic remediation to activities in the patient's daily life.

Benefits include:

• Contains activities for both you and your patient
• Determine which areas and activities are appropriate for each individual client and how to structure and systematically present treatment stimuli
• Includes important components of documentation necessary for the development of goals, a successful treatment plan, reimbursement, and referral base development
• Includes handy patient history forms that allow you to concentrate on the patient's answers and descriptions rather than formulating what question to ask next.

Features include:
• Provides a structured framework to guide you through evaluation and treatment
• Includes tailored, clinical activities systematically targeting five major processes such as metacognitive processes, time management, and attention
• Includes examples of written reports
• Includes instructions to modify standardized tests to effectively target executive functions

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, task identification, carrying out the steps in an orderly way, maintaining attention, evaluating how they're doing on a task , etc.

High-level activities are necessary to treat patients with executive functions disorders. The Source for Executive Function Disorders is devoted to rehabilitation practice and focused on task-training activities that will engage your patient throughout the entire treatment course.

Components include:
211 pages; answer key, checklists, forms, therapy activities.

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