Cognitive rehabilitation in clinical neuropsychology.

Within the broad discipline of psychology, clinical psychology has established a tradition of providing services in the assessment and treatment of behavioral disorders. More recently, clinical neuropsychology emerged in response to a need to describe neurocognitive impairment associated with brain damage and relate deficits to specific forms of brain dysfunction. As the field developed, interest in rehabilitation increased and programs aimed at directly improving basic cognitive function began to appear. The most frequent complaints of patients with brain damage are memory