Workbook for Cognitive Skills

Workbook for Cognitive Skills
Author: Susan Howell Brubaker
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008-12-05
Genre: Cognition
ISBN: 9780814333136

The second edition of the red book builds on the original by adding 70 pages of entirely new exercises and 1,000 rewritten questions.

Workbook for Cognitive Skills

Workbook for Cognitive Skills
Author: Susan Howell Brubaker
Publisher:
Total Pages: 290
Release: 1987
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780814319031

These clever and original exercises emphasize logic, problem-solving, vocabulary, and multiple-step tasks. Designed for adults and adolescents with aphasia, cognitive impairments, or word/memory loss, this popular workbook provides interesting and unusual exercises that can be adapted to different levels of difficulty. A Clues Book provides help for those who cannot spell, need practice scanning, or require assistance finding an answer. Low to high level of difficulty with the use of the Clues Book.

Critical Thinking in Nursing

Critical Thinking in Nursing
Author: Saundra K. Lipe
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2004
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780781740425

This text introduces nursing students to the cognitive skills, or thought processes, required of professional nurses. Using a practical approach and a nursing process framework throughout, the book provides a bridge between the theory and the application of these skills. Cognitive skills are presented in a competency-based, clinically oriented format, with emphasis on teaching critical thinking. Chapters end with a workbook section, to provide students with real-world applications of what they have learned. Case studies and checklists throughout aid the student in applying content. The book is written at an accessible reading level.

CBT Skills Workbook

CBT Skills Workbook
Author: Barry M. Gregory
Publisher: PESI Publishing & Media
Total Pages: 151
Release: 2010-01-01
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1936128020

Contains over 100 of the top hands-on practical worksheets and exercises for integrating CBT! Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is the fastest-growing psychotherapy in the world today, largely because it has been clinically-tested and found effective for a broad range of psychiatric and psychological problems. CBT has strong clinical support from both clients and clinicians who like its collaborative process that uses practical tools and strategies for solving everyday problems. The challenge for many clinicians is finding practical ways to integrate empirically-supported therapies into everyday clinical practice with clients. While there are many outstanding books on the theory and practice of cognitive-behavioral therapies, the CBT Skills Workbook provides over 100 of the top hands-on practical worksheets and exercises to help clinicians integrate CBT into practice. The exercises and worksheets are designed to provide powerful tools that can be used in individual or group sessions and as homework assignments. An effective way to use the workbook is to have clients complete the exercises and worksheets at home and then review them together in each session. Clients learn by doing, thus these exercises are intentionally designed to be short, sweet, and easy-to-complete. This workbook contains powerful, yet practical, tools and techniques to help mental health professionals provide clients with state-of-the-art evidence-based interventions for a broad range of addiction and mental health issues and concerns. The workbook is divided into four key sections that include practical exercises and worksheets focused on client motivation, beliefs, emotions, and behaviors. In a nutshell, it helps people learn how to feel better by changing what they think and do. With the explosive movement toward accountability and evidence-based treatments, the CBT Skills Workbook will help psychologists, mental health professionals, and social workers integrate evidence-based treatments and therapies into clinical practice. In short, the workbook provides an easy to follow directory of practical exercises and homework activities that are designed to help people learn ways to have the life they truly want and deserve.

Workbook for Reasoning Skills

Workbook for Reasoning Skills
Author: Susan Howell Brubaker
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1983
Genre: Aphasic persons
ISBN: 9780814317600

Directed to the rehabilitation of language dysfunction and cognitive disorders related to neurological impairment. Language tasks have been created to carry over from the clinical environment to the real world by employing the basic language and vocabulary skills used in daily activities. The exercises are appropriate for children of varying grades, brain-damaged or normal, aswell as adults.

Cognitive Skills You Need for the 21st Century

Cognitive Skills You Need for the 21st Century
Author: Stephen K. Reed
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2020
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0197529003

Cognitive Skills You Need for the 21st Century begins with a Future of Jobs report that contrasts trending and declining skills required by the workforce in the year 2022. Trending skills include analytical thinking and innovation, active learning strategies, creativity, reasoning, and complex problem solving, and Reed discusses each in detail. Research in Cognitive Psychology, Education, and AI provides the foundation for acquiring these skills. Reedpresents problems and personal anecdotes to encourage reflection, and concludes with three chapters on educating 21st century skills at all levels of instruction.

The Multicontext Approach to Cognitive Rehabilitation

The Multicontext Approach to Cognitive Rehabilitation
Author: Joan Toglia
Publisher:
Total Pages: 414
Release: 2021-04-14
Genre:
ISBN: 9781662903113

This text provides practical information, tools and resources for implementation of the Multicontext Approach (MC) in cognitive rehabilitation. The Multicontext approach is uniquely designed to promote and enhance cognitive strategy use, self-awareness and self-monitoring skills across everyday activities in a way that maximizes functional outcomes for people with cognitive impairments due to acquired brain injury and other health conditions. Assembled by a leading worldwide expert in cognitive rehabilitation, this is the first comprehensive volume that integrates Multicontext treatment principles, evidence and guidelines all in one place and provides "how to" information to guide clinical practice and research. Organized into 3 sections, the first part provides foundational knowledge and clinical examples of the impact of cognitive impairments on functional performance and includes tools for observing, analyzing, and interpreting cognitive performance within daily life activities. The second part provides in-depth coverage of the Multicontext approach including theoretical concepts, strategies to address different cognitive performance problems, and detailed guidelines for using a structured metacognitive framework, guided learning techniques, and structuring treatment activities along a transfer continuum to optimize generalization or carryover of learning. The final part of the book provides additional clinical scenarios and case examples to illustrate how the Multicontext approach can be tailored to meet individual needs across a wide range of clinical problems and settings as well as within interprofessional teams. This landmark publication is an essential resource for occupational therapy practitioners, students, clinical neuropsychologists, researchers, and other healthcare professionals who work within the field of cognitive rehabilitation in inpatient, outpatient or community-based settings. In a large-size format for easy photocopying, this invaluable book features an extensive appendix with a full of a range of learning exercises and reflective activities, summaries, observational tools, training guides, clinical examples, treatment forms and worksheets that can be reproduced for clinical practice to enable readers to carry out these methods with their clients. Purchasers obtain access to a Web page where they can download and print reproducible materials from appendices.

The Brain Injury Workbook

The Brain Injury Workbook
Author: Trevor Powell
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2017-07-05
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1351699237

Evolved from working with head injured groups at Headway and those attempting to return to work, this is a rich, comprehensive and photocopiable workbook for professionals, carers and clients. It contains over 140 cognitive rehabilitation exercises - tailored for memory, thinking skills, executive functions, awareness and insight, and emotional adjustment. It provides more than 40 information sheets on key problem areas, with questions for the reader, designed to educate and stimulate thinking and discussion. It is suitable for both individuals and groups. It includes questionnaires for clients to complete with or without help and quizzes to evaluate and encourage information retention. Primarily for professionals where exercises or handout sheets can be photocopied and used therapeutically, The Brain Injury Workbook can also be used by carers or family members to provide stimulating activities for a head-injured person. In addition, the head-injured person themselves can work through the book on their own.