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Provides an overview of stroke rehabilitation covering patient management in the acute, subacute, and chronic phases of poststroke treatment. Cognitive, behavioral, and functional assessment in the subacute poststroke phase is discussed, neuropsychiatric problems occurring during this phase are identified, and cognitive deficits and perceptual deficits encountered during occupational therapy are described. Speech, recreational, and music therapy and social support services are also considered. Objective: To investigate the efficacy of music therapy techniques as an aid in improving mood and social interaction after traumatic brain injury or stroke. Design: Eighteen individuals with traumatic brain injury or stroke were assigned either standard rehabilitation alone or standard rehabilitation along with music therapy (3 treatments per week for up to 10 treatments). Measures: Pretreatment and posttreatment assessments of participant self-rating of mood, family ratings of mood and social interaction, and therapist rating of mood and participation in therapy. Results: There was a significant improvement in family members' assessment of participants' social interaction in the music the
production of neurologically impaired persons. Journal of Music music group than in the control group. Conclusions: Results lend preliminary support to the efficacy of music therapy as a complementary therapy for social functioning and participation in rehabilitation with a trend toward improvement in mood during acute rehabilitation. greater maturity. Arts in Psychotherapy, 13(4), 333-341. model of short term group treatment. Arts in Psychotherapy, music therapy, mood and social interaction and participation in therapy, 31-84 yr olds with traumatic brain injury or stroke Barker, V.L. & Brunk, B. (1991). The role of a creative arts group in the Jochims,S. (1995). Emotional processing of coping with disease in the Alderidge, D. (1993). The music of the body: Music therapy in medical
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