Table of Contents

About the Editors vii

About the Contributors ix

Preface xi

Acknowledgements xiii

About the Companion Website xv

Part I Cognition and the Occupational Therapy Process 1

1 Occupation and Cognitive Rehabilitation 3
Stephanie Tempest and Linda Maskill

2 Assessment and Measuring Change 17
Linda Maskill and Stephanie Tempest

3 Intervention for Cognitive Impairments and Evaluating Outcomes 33
Linda Maskill and Stephanie Tempest

Part II Cognition: Understanding Function and Working with People with Impairments 51

4 Cognition: Methods and Processes 53
Linda Maskill and Stephanie Tempest

5 Attention 71
Richard Jefferson and Linda Maskill

6 Visual Perception, Recognition and Agnosia 89
Linda Maskill and June Grieve

7 Complex Perceptual Functions: Body Scheme and Agnosia, Constructional Skills and Neglect 113
Stephanie Tempest and Linda Maskill

8 Memory 123
Tess Baird and Linda Maskill

9 Purposeful Movement and Apraxia 149
Stephanie Tempest

10 Executive Functions 165
Sacha Hildebrandt

11 Cognitive Function in the General Population: Maintaining Cognitive Health in Later Years 177
Linda Maskill

Index 195

About the Author

Linda Maskill is a Lecturer in Occupational Therapy and the Departmental Director for Learning and Teaching, in the Department of Clinical Sciences at Brunel University London, UK.

Stephanie Tempest is the Education Manager for Professional Development at the College of Occupational Therapists, London, UK.