Description: Target specific high-level cognitive processes in your clients with executive function disorder with activities that can be individualized to their needs and interests. Executive functions perform a collective service that comes into play with all facets of cognitive processing. Patients with executive function disorders have difficulty with: planning and organization identifying what needs to be done carrying out the steps in an orderly way identifying the beginning tasks maintaining attention evaluating how they're doing on a task taking feedback or suggestions This manual provides a structured framework for therapists to guide the evaluation process and treatment of patients with executive function disorders. The manual gives: information on the use of standardized and informal assessment tools to reflect the patient's real-life performance instruction in the use of the Patient-Initiated Continuum (PIC) to involve the patient as a stakeholder in therapy and to quantify patient improvement thorough explanations of the processes of time management, attention (five forms), goal-directed behavior, and memory activities to systematically target self-assessment, time management, attention (five forms), goal-directed behavior, and memory examples of goals and written reports documentation requirements Copy the activity pages or print them from the FREE CD. Extra helps include: patient history form patient self-assessment checklists patient performance checklist time management templates 65 pages of reproducible activities answer key

Series: the Source

Publisher: Linguisystems

Format: SOFTCOVER

Keywords: executive function;