Comprehensive Cognitive - Behavioral Assessment and Rehabilitation
The Comprehensive Cognitive-Behavioral Assessment & Rehabilitation Program offered at the St. Luke's Memory Center is a hospital based out-patient service that offers coordinated care of individuals suffering from various psychological (i.e. thinking, feeling, behaving) and functional impairments brought about by a number of developmental, neurological and medical conditions which include but are not limited to traumatic brain injuries, brain tumors, stroke, incipient dementia, mild cognitive impairment (MCI), multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease and the like.
The procedure which is conducted by a multidisciplinary team of dedicated health professionals (i.e. doctors, nurses, psychologists, occupational and speech/language pathologists) aims to:
- Determine the cause of difficulty/ies
- Identify unique patterns of strengths and weaknesses to aid in treatment recommendations
- Restore, improve or compensate a person’s memory and cognitive abilities so as to allow increased functioning in everyday life
It provides individualized programs that will cater to people in all phases of recovery from acute assessments and intervention to a longer, “lifestyle-adjustment” approach to treatment.
These are achieved through the following specific services being offered:
- Neuropsychological Assessment which evaluates a person’s intelligence, attention, memory, language comprehension, language expression, logical/abstract reasoning skills, judgment of dangerous situations, aptitude/achievement potentials and other brain-behavior functions. It also includes identification of psychological factors which may create or intensify current conditions and those that may affect recovery.
- Occupational Therapy/CRT
- Speech/Language Therapy
- Psychotherapy & Behavioral Management which aids individuals and their families in understanding and managing their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors through provision of guidance and support, education, goal setting, identification of factors identifying motivation and devising of plans to achieve desired goals.
Those who will benefit are:
- Post-traumatic brain injury patients with memory and other cognitive impairments
- Post-stroke individuals with memory complaints
- Post-brain surgery patients with memory impairment and associated cognitive/behavioral complaints
- Post viral encephalitis patients with varied cognitive impairments
- Individuals with mild cognitive impairment (MCI)
- Very early stages of Alzheimer’s Disease
