Higher Brain Function Research
Online ISSN : 1880-6554
Print ISSN : 1348-4818
ISSN-L : 1348-4818
Educational lectures 2
Holistic Cognitive Rehabilitation in Japan─The Current Situation and Problems from Practice─
Atsuo Naya
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2019 Volume 39 Issue 2 Pages 183-188

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  I have been practicing group rehabilitation of people with brain injuries with the staff since 2008. I thank Professor Tanemura Rumi who gave me the opportunity to give a lecture. My sonʼs traffic accident triggered me such a job. Our model is The Oliver Zangwill Centre for Neuropsychological Rehabilitation (OZC) . We have learned about the rehabilitation by the publications of the centre and participations to the lecture given there.
  It is also influenced by the movement of the therapeutic community which was commenced by Maxwel Jones. We try to share the information with every staff as much as possible and work together.
  The number of clients in group rehabilitation at our clinic never exceeds 15 people, but the staff is 6 to 7 people. It is profound when compared with the criteria of large-scale psychiatric day care on Japanese medical insurance system. As far as this condition is continued, group rehabilitation of higher brain dysfunction will not grow in the future in this country.
  Our staff is a psychiatrist, nurses, occupational therapists, speech therapists, a physical therapist, a psychiatric social worker, a clinical psychologist, other staff menbers (ceramics, chorus etc.) . At the end of the test, we provide the contents to the client and the family and explain the results.
  Outline of group rehabilitation at our hospital is reports of previous week among members, skill memorization training, confirmation techniques, understanding of brain injury, attention training, group activities, etc. Clients will engage in competitive activities (boccia, patter golf, darts and card game etc.) .
  In addition, I described Headway Sakai, a facility that performs moderate rehabilitation, which seems to be insufficient in Sakai city.

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