PSYC33H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6.2: Traumatic Brain Injury, Randomized Controlled Trial, Frontal Lobe
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Rehabilitation of executive functioning in patients with frontal lobe brain damage with goal management training by levine et. Main point: overall, the data supports the efficacy of gmt in the rehabilitation of executive functioning deficits. Executive functioning deficits due to brain disease affecting frontal lobe functions cause significant real-life disability: solid evidence in support of executive functioning interventions is lacking. Goal management training (gmt), an executive functioning intervention that draws upon theories concerning goal processing and sustained attention: received empirical support in studies of patients with traumatic brain injury, normal aging. Gmt promotes a mindful approach to complex real-life tasks that pose problems for patients with executive functioning deficits, with a main goal of periodically stopping ongoing behavior to monitor and adjust goals. In this controlled trial, an expanded version of gmt was compared to an alternative intervention, brain health workshop that was matched to gmt on non-specific characteristics that can affect intervention outcome.
