Beschreibung:
Cognitive Rehabilitation of Memory: A Clinical-Neuropsychological Introduction comprehensively reviews evidence-based research for each clinical tool, defining guidelines on how to assess patients and set treatment goals and best practices for creating individualized rehabilitation programs. The book also provides essential background knowledge on the nature and causes of memory impairment. Dr. Helmut Hildebrandt describes a wide range of interventions, including memory aids, learning strategies and non-cognitive treatment options
I. Evidence-based medicine in rehabilitation research 1. Introduction 2. Strategies of neurorehabilitation: restitution and compensation 3. Definition of evidence-based medicine (EBM) 4. Reviewing and the development of guidelines 5. Guidelines for treating patients 6. How to measure treatment effects ("outcome")? 7. How to rate neuropsychological assessments as outcome measures 8. Level of evidence 9. The Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) as "gold-standard" in rehabilitation research 10. Some basic aspects of statistical analysis of treatment studies 11. Problems with group studies in neuropsychological rehabilitation research 12. Single case experimental designs (SCED) in rehabilitation research 13. The quality of a treatment study does not only depend on a sound methodology