ABSTRACT

Behavioural approaches are frequently incorporated into cognitive rehabilitation programmes because they provide a structure, a way of analysing cognitive problems, a means of assessing everyday manifestations of cognitive problems, and a means of evaluating the efficacy of treatment. In addition, behavioural approaches supply us with a number of strategies including shaping, chaining, modelling, desensitisation, flooding, extinction, positive reinforcement, response cost, and so on, all of which can be modified or adapted to suit particular cognitive problems.