Memory and Attention Adaptation Training: A Brief Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Cancer Survivors : Clinician Manual

ISBN-10
0197521584
ISBN-13
9780197521588
Series
Memory and Attention Adaptation Training
Category
Attention
Pages
172
Language
English
Published
2021
Authors
Karen Gillock, Robert J. Ferguson

Description

"During Visit 1, Clinicians provide survivors with an introduction and overview of the MAAT program and review the eight-session training schedule. The education component covers cancer background, significance, and causes topics as well as helping survivors recognize that not all memory/attention failures are cancer/treatment related (re-attribution). MAAT highlights the important rationale that, while we can't know at the causes of cancer-related memory problems, we do know that factors such as stress, fatigue, and the divided attention of busy, daily life also contribute to memory problems - and we can change environment, stress response, and manage fatigue through the use of compensatory strategies aimed a minimizing the effects of memory failures. Self-awareness is introduced, and self-monitoring forms are explained and assigned for homework in order to identify the environmental, affective, and cognitive antecedents of memory failures in daily life. Survivors are guided through a Progressive Muscle Relaxation procedure and instructed for home practice with a provided recording"--

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