Survey of internship training in rehabilitation psychology: 2019.

Purpose/objective: The purpose of this study was to obtain information about psychology internship training programs involving work with individuals with disabilities receiving rehabilitation services in the United States and Canada.

Research Method/design: The Association of Psychology Postdoctoral and Internship Centers (APPIC) directory was used to identify 426 training programs that listed supervised experience in rehabilitation psychology, and these programs were sent a survey assessing characteristics of their internship. There were 227 program directors who responded (53%), and 114 of them reported that their internship involved working with disabled persons receiving rehabilitation services.

A survey of postdoctoral training in rehabilitation psychology in the United States and Canada: 2019.

Purpose/objective: Survey psychology postdoctoral training programs involving patients with disability receiving rehabilitation services, and compare with similar data from 2007.

Research Method/design: Public data sources identified 297 potential postdoctoral training programs. Of these, 100 programs (34%) provided services for patients with disability in rehabilitation settings, and 92% returned a survey ( = 92).

Necessity Is the Mother of Invention .

What do you do when a podiatric medicine-friendly teaching hospital abruptly terminates a required monthlong inpatient medicine rotation? You can try to negotiate a new rotation at another facility, but that's difficult in the San Francisco Bay Area with three local medical schools vying for similar positions. Instead, you need to think creatively.

Guidelines for Adult Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery: A Guideline for Healthcare Professionals From the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association.

Purpose: The aim of this guideline is to provide a synopsis of best clinical practices in the rehabilitative care of adults recovering from stroke.

Methods: Writing group members were nominated by the committee chair on the basis of their previous work in relevant topic areas and were approved by the American Heart Association (AHA) Stroke Council's Scientific Statement Oversight Committee and the AHA's Manuscript Oversight Committee. The panel reviewed relevant articles on adults using computerized searches of the medical literature through 2014.

Teaching the foundational principles of rehabilitation psychology.

Objective: Wright (1983) described 20 "value-laden beliefs and principles" that form the foundational principles of rehabilitation psychology, and the education and training of rehabilitation psychologists necessitates that they acquire the specialty-specific knowledge and attitudes/values related to these principles. This article addresses 2 questions about how these principles can be taught in rehabilitation psychology training: (a) What are the core theories and evidence supporting these foundational principles, and what should be the content of a "core curriculum" for teaching these?; and (b) What is known about the most effective methods for teaching these foundational principles, including questions of how to teach values?

Method: The foundational principles were grouped into 3 categories: individual psychological processes, social psychological processes, and values related to social integration. A literature review was conducted in these 3 categories, and the results are summarized and discussed.

Guidelines for competency development and measurement in rehabilitation psychology postdoctoral training.

Objective: This study describes the results of a multidisciplinary conference (the Baltimore Conference) that met to develop consensus guidelines for competency specification and measurement in postdoctoral training in rehabilitation psychology.

Methods: Forty-six conference participants were chosen to include representatives of rehabilitation psychology training and practice communities, representatives of psychology accreditation and certification bodies, persons involved in medical education practice and research, and consumers of training programs (students).

Results: Consensus education and training guidelines were developed that specify the key competencies in rehabilitation psychology postdoctoral training, and structured observation checklists were developed for their measurement.

Frequency and cost of claims by injury type from a state workers' compensation fund from 1998 through 2008.

Objective: To determine which work-related injuries are the most frequent and costly.

Design: Secondary analysis of workers' compensation claims data.

Setting: Data were provided by a large, Maryland workers' compensation insurer from 1998 through 2008.

Guidelines for postdoctoral training in rehabilitation psychology.

Objective: This article describes the methods and results of a national conference that was held to (1) develop consensus guidelines about the structure and process of rehabilitation psychology postdoctoral training programs and (2) create a Council of Rehabilitation Psychology Postdoctoral Training Programs to promote training programs' abilities to implement the guidelines and to formally recognize programs in compliance with the guidelines.

Methods: Forty-six conference participants were chosen to include important stakeholders in rehabilitation psychology, representatives of rehabilitation psychology training and practice communities, representatives of psychology accreditation and certification bodies, and persons involved in medical education practice and research.

Results: Consensus guidelines were developed for rehabilitation psychology postdoctoral training program structure and process and for establishing the Council of Rehabilitation Psychology Postdoctoral Training Programs.

Measurement of social participation outcomes in rehabilitation of veterans with traumatic brain injury.

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a significant concern in the veteran population, and the Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) has devoted substantial healthcare resources to the rehabilitation of veterans with TBI. Evaluating the outcomes of these rehabilitation activities requires measuring whether they meaningfully improve veterans' lives, especially with regard to community and vocational participation, which are strongly linked to perceived quality of life. In January 2010, the VA Rehabilitation Research and Development Service convened an invitational conference focused on outcome measurement in rehabilitation with a specific focus on veterans' community and vocational participation.

Cognitive outcome following traumatic brain injury.

Objective: To determine whether an association exists between traumatic brain injury (TBI) sustained in adulthood and cognitive impairment 6 months or longer after injury.

Design: Systematic review of the published, peer-reviewed literature.

Results: From 430 articles, we identified 11 primary and 22 secondary studies that examined cognitive impairment by using performance measures for adults who were at least 6 months post-TBI.

Training requirements and scope of practice in rehabilitation psychology and neuropsychology.

The purpose of this article is to educate the reader regarding the training requirements and scope of practice for rehabilitation psychology and neuropsychology. As discussed below, subspeciality training in pediatric rehabilitation psychology and pediatric neuropsychology is not yet formalized. While the clinical services of rehabilitation psychologists largely involve providing treatment, most clinical neuropsychologists primarily are involved in diagnostic assessment [19,20].

Task switching after stroke.

Background And Purpose: Task switching is a cognitive skill that may be compromised after brain damage. The purposes of this study were to examine task-switching abilities in the subacute phase after stroke, to determine whether a switching task under endogenous or internal control is more difficult than a switching task under exogenous or cued control, and to determine whether deficits in switching attenuate in the first few months after stroke.

Subjects: The participants in this study were 46 adults with stroke and 38 adults without stroke.

Attentional abilities and functional outcomes following stroke.

Although stroke affects cognitive functioning as well as motor functioning, research on cognitive consequences has lagged behind that focused on motor function. The evidence that is accruing suggests that cognitive function is importantly related to successful rehabilitation. The present study examined two aspects of attentional functioning (divided attention and switching attention) in older adult stroke survivors and healthy older adults.