Cognitive remediation in traumatic brain injury: update and issues

Abstract

Cognitive Remediation (CR) is a relatively new treatment technique for alleviating residual cognitive deficits following traumatic brain injury. This is a promising yet still changing technique. The future of CR as a rational and systematic endeavor requires the incorporation of important new ideas that have been emerging in allied fields. For example, the emerging field of instructional psychology has contributed relevant concepts such as scaffolding, metacognition, and generalization. It is furthermore argued that the issues of awareness, self-concept, and self-efficacy are vital to the process of CR intervention, and an integrative (holistic) approach to the remedial endeavor is thus indicated.