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The rehabilitation of intellectual impairment resulting from brain
injury has become a major professional activity of clinical
neuropsychologists. In recent years, neuropsychology has developed
from a professional role stressing assessment and diagnosis to one
that now includes treatment and rehabilitation activities. Such
trends are also manifested in two new research interests of
neuropsychologists: the study of the generalizability of
neuropsychological test findings to everyday abilities, often
referred to as the "ecological validity" of tests, and outcome
studies of cognitive retraining treatments. Discovering the
relationships between traditional neuropsychological tests and
everyday behavior is important because the referral questions posed
to neuropsychologists have changed. Now, the neuropsychologist is
asked to comment on the patient's functional intellectual abilities
as they relate to the everyday demands of home, work and
educational settings. Of course, the development of cognitive
retraining theory and procedures allows neuropsychologists to
intervene in the treatment of the cognitive problems that the
neuropsychological evaluation has documented. Since these
approaches are still in their formative stages, they have been the
subject of clinical lore, great controversy and little systematic
research. This situation prompted one of our presenters to lament,
"Either you believe Cognitive Retraining is divinly inspired, or
the work of the devil. " There is apparently little middle ground.
Given this state of affairs, the program committee of the Mid-South
Conference on Human Neuropsychology decided to focus on the role of
neuropsychologists in rehabilitation.
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