Cognitive Rehabilitation and The Memory Works Programs
Assisting your client/patient's memory depends on raising your patient's level of attention to the things he or she wants to remember, as appropriate. The level and the distribution of your client/patient's attention may be improved through different kinds of procedures presented in the Memory Works Programs. You can use your knowledge of general and specific procedures to help your client/patient by guiding that person through use of appropriate mental activities. You can facilitate your client/patient's memory readiness by monitoring their modes and improving them when you can. You will want to be alert to your client/patient's social and environment context, and prod your client's memory with external memory aids. Modern memory research shows that memory is assisted best by developing a plan of manipulations—made up of the right combinations of manipulations appropriate to specific memory tasks. Preparing memory plans will prepare you to help your client/patient as much as possible. The Memory Works® programs each include a Memory Monitor® section dealing with the holistic multi-modal model of memory promoted by PMI. The more recent, the more in-depth the presentation of the Memory Monitor.

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