HE JOHN STANLEY COULTER MEMORIAL LECTURE ushing the Frames of Reference in Traumatic Brain Injury ehabilitation

Cognitive rehabilitation is an empirically based field driven y multiple sources of activities and knowledge bases. Drawng on frames of reference provided by rehabilitation, neurosychology, and rehabilitation psychology, cognitive rehabiliation has evolved to a point where studies have been generated o qualify for consideration in tables of evidence. At the center f cognitive rehabilitation is the effort to teach people to vercome or adapt to limitations. While rehabilitation has raditionally been focused on activity, a recent trend in the iterature is to incorporate the individual’s experience into a rame of reference for rehabilitation. Emphasizing the experince of the person in the situation fits into cognitive rehabiliation and raises the bar for rehabilitation not only in viewing ehabilitation as an activity to relieve burdens but also in terms f how rehabilitants come to grips with limitations. Dealing ith limitations is an important indicator of mental health.