Ages: 16-Adult
Grades: 11-Adult

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

Extra helps include:

• patient history form
• patient self-assessment checklists
• patient performance checklist
• time management templates
• 65 pages of reproducible activities
• answer key

211 pages • 8.5 x 11, softcover book with reproducible pages (checklists, forms, therapy activities) • ©2003