Cognitive Overview
Influences what a person chooses to do and dictates how an experience is remembered and interpreted.
What is Cognition?
Targeted behaviors in many traditional cognitive rehabilitation programs.
What are Attention, Memory, and Executive Functions?
These are the four steps of memory processing.
What is Attend -> Encode -> Storage -> Recall?
A system of therapeutic activities, based on brain-behavior relationships, directed to achieve functional change by re-establishing or reinforcing previously learned patterns of behavior, establishing new patterns of cognitive activity through compensatory cognitive mechanics, establishing new patterns of activity through external compensatory mechanisms, and enabling persons to adapt to their cognitive disability to improve overall functioning.
What is Cognitive Rehabilitation?
Examples of this compensation intervention include self instruction / self talk, mental rehearsal of task performed correctly, and mental organization (mind map).
What is Internal Strategies Intervention?
The ability to use and incorporate thinking and processing skills to accomplish complex and essential everyday activities in clinical and community living environments.
What is Functional Cognition?
Degree of understanding one has regarding his/her own physical or cognitive perceptual impairments.
What is Awareness?
Rehearsal commonly occurs in this stage of memory storage.
What is Short-Term Memory?
An assessment tool used to measure attention, memory, and executive function in cognition.
What is Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MOCA)?
Examples of this method of intervention includes placing personal photos or items in a room and having the individual recount past events, familiar places, and people.
What is Orientation Intervention?
A global mental function within the OT Practice Framework.
What is consciousness, orientation, temperament and personality functions, energy and drive function, or sleep?
Multidimensional capacity involving components of altering (sensory), selective (choosing), divided (switching), and sustained (vigilance).
What is Attention?
The part of long-term memory and declarative memory responsible for storing factual information about the world. Example: "Knowing that grass is green"
What is Semantic Memory?
The last step of the intervention process.
What is Practice Transfer and Generalization Strategies for Real Life?
Examples of this method of intervention involves the "sandwich" and "oreo" strategy in which you place your corrections between two honest, positive statements.
What is Feedback Intervention?
A specific mental function within the OT practice framework.
What is higher-level cognitive, attention, memory, perception, thought, sequencing complex movement, emotional, or experience of self and time functions?
Set of processes which temporarily holds onto information until it is utilized or encoded.
What is Working Memory?
Complex cognition such as solving novel problems, modifying behavior in light of new information, generating strategies, or sequencing complex tasks.
What is Executive Functions?
Decreasing irrelevant information to reduce distractions or breaking up an activity into multiple sessions are examples of this method for intervention.
What is Changing Task and Environment Intervention?
An example of awareness intervention in which an individual creates a weekly or daily self rating scale of clearly defined behaviors or targeted strategies in order to help him/her focus on what they can do in the present and move towards realistic goals.
What is Specific Goals Rating?
A sign of cognitive dysfunction.
What is confusion and disorientation, loses track of information, confabulation, poor initiation of actions or thoughts, disinhibition, difficulty planning and organizing, unable to prioritize, unable to stay on task, delayed processing time, poor regulation of speed of response, tangential speech or flight of ideas, preservation, concrete thinking, difficulty generating ideas and alternatives, poor insight, poor safety judgment, or unable to sustain mental energy?
Recognition of one's self in regard to time, place, and person within an individual's own environment.
What is Orientation?
Despite progress in anti-psychotic medications, functional limitations remain a major source of disability in this population.
What is Schizophrenia Patients?
An example of external compensation intervention which results in changes in behavior to remind an individual to do something, such as putting a rubberband on the wrist or a bag on the door handle.
What is Behavioral Prosthetic?
Strategies for self-monitoring, attention, and problem-solving in which can be applied to a wide variety of clients in order to target specific cognitive skills.
What are Group Interventions?