PSY 442 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Multiple Sclerosis, Major Depressive Disorder, Meninges
29 Jul 2020
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
1 neuropsychological rehabilitation process boomed once neuropsychology adopted the information-processing paradigm, so it quickly became a standard practice (benedet, Rehabilitation methods can be classified into four types according to the wilson classification (wilson, 1997): the traditional approach: by which the patient is presented with exercises and tasks in which he showed failures in a previous review. In neuropsychological intervention, a distinction must be made between two situations (benedet, 2002): that of the patient with recoverable deficits. Rehabilitation is aimed at these patients: that of the patient whose deficits cannot be improved. Neuropsychology family are informed about everything related to the deficit he presents, making them aware that the patient will not improve, commenting that, in the case of evidence of degenerative processes, patients tend to worsen . In these patients, the cognitive stimulation process can also be carried out, which will allow the maintenance of the functions preserved in these patients and the slowing down of the deterioration process.
