Mindfulness-based Therapy of Cognitive FunctionsAbstract. In the last decades, the practice of mindfulness has become into the focus of clinical psychology and medicine. In the recent past, researchers have also investigated whether mindfulness ...
Abstract. This paper reviews adaptive and maladaptive mechanisms of cortical plasticity in patients suffering from peripheral facial palsy. As the peripheral facial nerve is a pure motor nerve, a facial nerve lesion is causing an exclusive ...
“Are older clients underserved?” this question is increasingly considered an issue in health care and social work. In service provision to citizens with brain injuries the problem is rarely discussed, although the vast majority of persons with brain ...
Abstract.Background: Numbers are an integral part of our life. Being competent with numbers is crucial for coping with the challenging demands of our modern times. Anyone who lacks basic numerical and calculation ...
Effects of an Attention Training on the Aphasic Symptomatology in Stroke PatientsAttention is a control-system of neuronal activity, which modulates neuroplasticity. Attempts to promote functional recovery after brain injury by improving attention have ...
Abstract Patterns of autonomic cardiovascular regulation were studied in patients with anxiety throughout the course of an intensive inpatient rehabilitation therapy at rest, and in response to an anxiety provocation, in order to measure reactivity ...
AWMF Guidelines: Post-acute treatment of alcohol abuse and dependenceAim: To produce S2 guidelines (according to AWMF, 2001) for the post-acute treatment of patients with alcohol dependence. </p><p> Methods: Systematic review of the literature, expert ...
Mentales Training (MT) im Sinne der planmäßig wiederholten Vorstellung eines Bewegungsablaufes ist ein zentraler Gegenstand sportpsychologischer Forschung. Im Hochleistungssport und in der Rehabilitation wird es zur Optimierung von Bewegungen eingesetzt. ...
Quality of Partner Relationship in Chronically Brain-Injured IndividualsAbstract: Based on a conceptual model of caregiver's stress (Pearlin et al., 1990), this study examined the perceived quality of relationship in partners of chronically brain injured ...
Summary: Major changes have taken place over the last decade in the mental health care services in Belgium as well as in the rest of Europe. To track these developments, Shepherd and colleagues developed an instrument to assess the degree of perceived ...
Abstract. Patients with chronic stroke were given Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy (CIMT) over an intensive two-week course of treatment. The intervention resulted in a large improvement in use of the more-affected upper extremity in ...
Chronic Alcoholics with Multiple Impairment and Alcoholics in Rehabilitation Two Different Groups of Alcoholics in a Psychiatric HospitalWe selected in a prospective study all alcoholics, who participated either on a therapy program for chronic ...
Zusammenfassung. Ziel der vorliegenden explorativen Einzelfallstudie ist, zu überprüfen, ob die Einkaufsfertigkeiten eines 15-jährigen autistischen Jugendlichen mit einem computergestützten Training verbessert werden können. Das Einkaufsverhalten wurde ...
Neuromotor rehabilitation, typically seen with stroke patients, is usually mistakenly focused on the recovery of movements while disregarding the insufficient or missing awareness of the affected part of the body. Thus, the functional recovery of ...
German version of the Illness Perception Questionnaire-Revised (IPQ-R): Psychometric evaluation in patients with chronic somatic illnessAbstract. The objective of this study was the psychometric evaluation of the German version of the Illness Perception ...
Effects of a Multimodal Activity Program in Nursing-Home ResidentsIs it possible to maintain or even to enhance functional and cognitive independence in nursing home residents? In literature there is only little information about possibilities and limits ...
Zusammenfassung. In einer prospektiven Beobachtungsstudie wurde an 1065 Patienten der Einfluss von Reha-Motivationen (d.h. Ergebniserwartungen und Selbstwirksamkeitserwartungen) auf die Ergebnisse einer Rehabilitation nach Hüftgelenkersatz untersucht. Die ...
Keeping and Furthering Autonomy in Nursing-Home Residents: An Overview of Existing MeasuresEven if need of care already has occurred, measures of rehabilitation should be provided in order to avoid a progression of disease or worsening of impairment. ...
Zusammenfassung. Subjektivem körperlichen Wohlbefinden wird eine zunehmend größere Bedeutung im Rahmen der Gesundheitsforschung zugesprochen. Die vorliegenden Instrumente beschränken sich aber mit wenigen Ausnahmen auf die Erfassung körperlicher ...
Emotions Come in Many Forms – Is an Emotiontraining Able to Have an Impact on the Negative Symptomatic of People With a Schizophrenic Illness?Abstract: 23 ambulant patients, diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia according to DSM-IV, who are stabilized on ...